(Abbreviated sometimes as HDS) In the field of welding, this refers to a weld that's so bad, it looks like your dog Scruffy ate Taco Bell that was 3 weeks old and had been sitting out
in the sun all day, and took a shit in the joint of the weld.
Originally used to describe bad stick welds, but it applies to any method (MIG, TIG, flux-core, oxyfuel, etc). Depending upon the quality of the HDS, it can be nearly
impossible to grind down.
1. Billy: "Hey Jim, I decided to cap that weld you've been
working on"
Jim: "You jackass! You just laid some hammered dog shit all over my
stack of dimes!"
2. The CWI didn't even bother X-raying the welds that Billy made, he could spot that grade-A hammered dog shit from a mile away.
3. It took Cletus nearly an hour on the oxyacetylene torch to wash away the hammered dog shit that Jim squirted out using his new spool gun.
4. Cletus thought he had some dimes to post to weldporn and weldernation, but it was really just HDS.
5.
It doesn't matter if you're AWS certified, we all lay down some HDS from time to time.
