Stick welding around the object?

[Tuomas]

I have noticed, that sometimes when one starts to practise welding with stick.

They keep their hand on the position, that when rod gets shorter. Hand that holds the rod comes on the way, and prevents pointing rod in the right angle.

This short video shows the process of welding around the object.

Whole trick is to tilt / twist your hand while rod gets shorter, and that way keep rod pointed right.

Same method works with most welds. Usually i keep rod holder sideways when starting fillet weld. During welding, i twist my frist, so that at the end of the rod, end of the rod holder is pointing up.