Heavy Equipment Welding in Midland, TX
Heavy equipment welding repair on bulldozers, excavators, loaders, telehandlers, and skid loaders at Chris’s Diesel Service in Midland. Buckets, arms, frames, and attachments repaired in the shop or on your site via the 8,000 lb crane service truck. Equipment steel takes abuse no truck ever sees, and the welds here are built for it.
Where Equipment Cracks and Wears.
Dirt work finds the same weak points on every machine. These are the four categories of heavy equipment welding repair that come through the shop.
Buckets and Ground Tools
Bucket crack repair, cutting edge and wear plate replacement, tooth shank buildup, and side cutter work. Wear metal replaced before it eats the parent steel, because a worn bucket costs money every hour it digs.
Booms, Arms, and Frames
Structural cracks on booms, arms, loader towers, and equipment frames. Crack ends drilled, joints prepped, welded full depth, and gusseted where the design keeps failing. Treated as the structural work it is.
Pins, Bores, and Buildup
Worn pin bores built up with weld, bushings and sleeves replaced, pivot points restored, and wear surfaces hardfaced. Sloppy pins destroy bushings, cylinders, and accuracy. Buildup work brings the tight feel back.
Attachments and Mounts
Quick coupler repair, attachment frames, forks and carriages, blade and ripper repair, and custom mounts. Attachments live a harder life than the machine, and they are usually the cheapest downtime to prevent.
Shop or Site. Same Weld.
Half of equipment welding happens where the machine broke. The standard travels with the truck.
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Assess and Decide
Damage assessed, cause identified, and the honest call made: field repair where the machine sits, or shop repair where the fit-up can be done better. Itemized quote either way.
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Prep and Weld
Cracks drilled and veed, wear metal cut back to sound steel, and welds matched to the material. Hardfacing and wear plate where the service demands it, not just where it is easy.
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Verify Under Work
The repair gets worked before we call it done: bucket loaded, boom cycled, attachment engaged. Equipment welds prove themselves under load or they get done again on our time.
The Welder Who Knows The Machine.
Most welding shops see a crack. This shop also repairs the hydraulics, engines, and drivetrains on the same machines through our heavy equipment repair bays, so the weld gets planned by people who know what the part does and why it failed.
- Mechanics and Welding When a cracked boom traces back to a worn pin or a bent cylinder rod, both get fixed in the same visit through our hydraulic system service. No finger-pointing between shops.
- Field Welding Mobile welding for heavy equipment, brought to your site by the crane service truck with rigging and an 8,000 lb lift across a 100-mile radius. Buckets and attachments often never need to leave the job.
- Equipment Steel Fluent High-strength and abrasion-resistant steels need matched process and filler. Welds are planned to the material, not run with whatever wire is loaded.
- Downtime Honest We tell you what can wait for the weekend and what is about to strand the machine, so welding fits your schedule instead of wrecking it.
Common Questions
Can you weld my equipment on the job site?
My bucket keeps cracking in the same place. Why?
Do you replace cutting edges and wear plates?
Can you fix worn pin bores and loose pivots?
What does equipment welding cost in Midland, TX?
Cracked Bucket? Split Boom?
Equipment down? We have a crane truck. Welding that comes to the machine, planned by people who fix the whole machine.