Equipment down repair
Cracked frames, snapped tongues, broken buckets, bent three point hitches, split loader arms. If it stopped the work, it goes to the front of the line and we usually get there the same day.
$95 service call
We bring the welder to the broken thing.
Mobile welding, cutting and custom fabrication out of Kearney. Trailer frames, gates, railings, bumpers, brackets and hitches, welded in your driveway, your shop or the middle of a pasture, because most of what breaks does not fit in a car.
Mobile within 50 miles of Kearney · MIG, TIG and stick · Insured, certificate on request
Based in Kearney, MO
Service call $95, first hour included
Same day on equipment down
What we weld
Two kinds of calls, and they could not be more different.
Half of this work is a trailer tongue cracked on a Tuesday morning with a load already on it, and the only thing that matters is how fast the truck can get there. The other half is a gate or a railing somebody has been thinking about for two years, and the only thing that matters is that it looks right. Both are below, priced separately, because they are not the same job.
Trailer repair and rebuild
Cross members, decking, fenders, ramps, couplers, jacks, lights and wiring, plus axle and spring swaps. Most twenty year old utility trailers are worth rebuilding and are not worth replacing, and we will tell you which one yours is.
from $240
Gates, fence and pipe
Entrance gates, pasture gates, pipe corrals, panels and continuous fence. Hung plumb on set posts so it still swings clear in five years, which is the part most gates get wrong.
from $850
Railings and stairs
Porch rail, deck rail, stair rail and cable rail, in steel or aluminum, with the welds ground and finished instead of left proud. Code height and spacing, and we will pull the measurements ourselves so nothing has to be cut twice.
from $95 / ft
Bumpers, racks and hitches
Front and rear bumpers, headache racks, flatbeds, receiver hitches, gooseneck balls and bed rails. Built to the truck with a tape measure instead of ordered out of a catalog and shimmed to fit.
quoted per build
Aluminum, stainless and small parts
TIG on aluminum and stainless: brackets, tanks, boat and dock hardware, food service stands, exhaust. Plasma cutting for plate and brackets, and we can cut from a sketch on a napkin if the dimensions are on it.
$95 / hr
Rates
What a call actually costs.
- Service call inside 25 milesTruck, rig and the first hour on site$95
- Service call 25 to 50 milesTruck, rig and the first hour on site$135
- Welding time after the first hourMIG, stick or TIG, on site or in the shop$95 / hr
- Emergency and after hoursNights, Sundays, harvest and calving season$145 / hr
- Fabrication in the shopLayout, cut, fit and weld, material billed at cost plus 15%$95 / hr
- Gate, 12 ft with posts setSteel gate, pipe posts, concrete, hung and swinging$1,150–$1,900
Material is billed at cost plus fifteen percent and the receipt goes on the invoice, so you can see what the steel ran. Anything that can come to the shop is cheaper than anything that cannot, and we will say so when you call. Big fabrication jobs are quoted flat before anything is cut, and nothing gets started on a handshake number. Prices here are illustrative for this preview.
Recent work
Four jobs from this spring.
Every one of these happened within forty minutes of Kearney and most of them happened in somebody's driveway. Ask about any of them and we will tell you what it cost and what it took, because a price you can check is worth more than a photo you cannot.
The rig
One truck, one welder, and he answers the phone.
Owner name goes here started taking side jobs with a rig in the back of a pickup in 2021 and it has been full time since the second summer. It is still one truck and one welder, so the person who answers the phone is the person who is going to be standing in your driveway with a hood on.
Everything he has built for four years lives on a phone camera roll and an Instagram grid with no captions, no dimensions and no prices, which is a bad way to sell a gate. That is what this page is for.
Owner name goes here, Kearney
Service radius
Fifty miles out from Kearney, farther if it is worth the drive.
Shop
123 Main St
Kearney, MO 64060
The shop is a pole barn on gravel and there is nothing to look at. Most jobs happen at your place. If you are bringing something in, call first so the doors are open and there is room on the floor.
Hours
- Monday to Saturday7 to 6
- SundayEmergencies only
- After hoursCall, do not text
If the phone goes to voicemail it means the hood is down. Leave what broke, where it is, and whether it is stopping work today, and the call comes back inside the hour. Pictures sent by text help more than a description does.
Towns we cover: Kearney, Smithville, Excelsior Springs, Holt, Lawson, Liberty, Gladstone, Platte City, Plattsburg, Lathrop, Trimble, Richmond, Polo and the county roads through Clay, Clinton and Ray County.