5 Opportunities For Welding Repairs Around The Farm

Mobile welding services get a lot of calls from across the entire industrial spectrum, but farms and agricultural businesses, in particular, make up a large percentage of their business calls. If you're relatively new to the industry, you may wonder exactly why welding is so valuable around the farm as you budget for future repairs and upgrades.

Welding can do everything from customizing new equipment to revitalize old tools or structures. No working farm should go without the phone number of a mobile welding service on hand for these five reasons and many more.

Hardfacing Attachment Edges

Hardfacing is a specialty form of welding that is slightly different than your usual techniques. While most welds are made to join together two separate pieces of metal, the hardfacing technique involves applying a layer of fresh metal to the working edge of an attachment or another large tool.

Agricultural tools that benefit from regular hardfacing include loader buckets, tractor mounted scoops, scraping blades, and any other attachments with edges designed to scrape or drag along the ground. Applying that layer of sacrificial metal prevents damage to the original surface and extends the lifespan of the tool, saving you money.

Reinforcing Trailer Points

Buying dump and static trailers to use with your UTVs, ATVs, tractors, and trucks may lead you into a confusing world of trying match the right hitches to the attachment points on your various hauling vehicles. Instead, try hiring a mobile welding service to adapt the trailer you need to your attachment points for a custom solution.

Welding is also the best way to keep trailers working for decades to make the most of your investment. The attachment points of a trailer take a lot of abuse over time, especially on trailers for hauling livestock or multiple tons of mulch and manure. A few timely welds can prevent a serious accident due to a loose trailer.

Repairing Broken Hinges

The same gates that can withstand the strength of a 3,000-pound cow are quite a tricky thing to restore when it's hanging off one hinge, and your cattle are eyeing a new way to get loose. A mobile welding service gets the hinge back in operation within a few hours while taking down the gate and installing a new one takes twice as long and costs quite a bit more.

If you hire an experienced welder, you can repair damage to gates and doors themselves as well regardless of what they're made of. Welding tube and bar stock can make an older gate or fence section last a lot longer without putting your livestock at risk for escape or injury.

Patching Beds and Walls

With the right welding equipment, it's just as easy to repair flat sections of sheet metal as bar stock and other solid pieces of metal. This means a welding service can fix a hole worn in an aluminum barn wall, tack in a new floor to repair a rusted out trailer bed, and more.

Welding these flat sections on rather than just tacking them with pop rivets creates an airtight seal that prevents moisture from leaking through as well, leading to a longer lasting repair.

Straightening Bent Tines

Finally, it only takes one oversized load or a giant slab of bedrock to leave your plow or hay fork tines permanently bent at a dangerous angle. Bending the fork back into place can only be done when there's just a slight bend. In more severe cases, the welder can cut off the bent section of the tine and weld on a new and straight tine to restore the use of your more important tools.

Ready to keep your farm equipment in better shape? Contact us today at 3-B Welding LLC.