I'm a tube? Who got done for speeding? Who got lifted for bloody assault?

In uphand welding, the previously deposited metal is used as a step to hold up the molten metal, making possible a heavier deposit. Slag flows away from the molten pool and is less likely to be trapped in the metal during uphand welding.

But to her cry they list not lenden eare, / Ne ought the more their mightie strokes surceasse.

an envious man, disposition, or attack; envious tongues