Expert Onsite Welding Services: Heavy Equipment Structural Repair

I’ll never forget a job up near Park City, middle of a high-altitude excavation. The contractor had a stick on his CAT 336 that had a crack running right through the main pivot point. You can't just weld over a crack like that. You’ve got to gouge it out, get down to the 'clean' metal, and then build it back up layer by layer. The secret weapon for these big structural fixes is the 'Fish-plate.' It’s a piece of high-tensile steel, usually shaped like a diamond or a football, that you weld *over* the repaired crack to distribute the stress. When we do onsite structural welding, we’re thinking three steps ahead.

If you’re working in St. George or anywhere in the southern part of the state, you know that our soil is basically just ground-up sandpaper. It eats bucket heels and cutting edges faster than a teenager eats a burger! That’s where hardfacing comes in. It’s an art form where we weld a specific pattern of ultra-hard metal onto the wear surfaces of your bucket. We don't just cover the whole thing in weld—that makes it too heavy and brittle. We use patterns: cross-hatches for rocky soil to 'trap' the small stones, or dots for sandier areas. A good hardfacing job can triple the life of a bucket lip. We offer bucket repair in Salt Lake and beyond.