Going Redneck

I figure that somewhere in this project I will need to join metal to metal.  Be it replacing rusted out panels, crafting brackets, filling the odd hole here and there... and I can't keep paying some traveling welder dude.

So I aquired... da, da, da, da....

My very own MIG welder.  Never did any welding in my life, but I am sure to be popular in my neighborhood once they find out I have one.  But maybe not if I can't figure it out.  The internet is full of tips and dos and donts so this should be a hoot.