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You should have two hot lines on the dryer (red, black, 220V between them), a neutral to run the motor (either hot line to the neutral white wire is 120 V), and a ground.

That's your four dryer wires.

Your welder likely only needs the two hot lines and the ground, probably no neutral required. Buy a dryer extension cord, or just a male connector and get a #8 or #10 three wire extension cord cable and connect it yourself. There should be a wiring diagram on the connector. If you buy a pre-wired cable it should be the four colors I mentioned above, white doesn't have to be connected to the welder.
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