The Welders Resource: (some of) My Fabrication Projects

I started out my welding career in Oilfield equipment...

Mostly Generators and the Skids, Trailers and Shacks they go on or in, As well as accessories like Toolboxes, Cabinets, Fuel & various liquid tanks.

I'll post some pictures as I go...


40` Bos Shack with sound attenuated gen-set


Bos shack 2

I wont post a lot of pics just my favorites...
I left my first shop after about 5 years & moved onto Trailer building with some truck rig ups, Mostly for Tri-can.

Acid Pumper in production

Acid Pumper Finished

A better look at the hydraulic pipe rack

These units were not fun to build (but sure looked good when they're done) what with all the hydraulics running the entire length of the trailer. & that pipe rack on the ass end consists of about 25 different pieces. (all break & shear work done in shop)

Acid pumper truck rig up


This beast is called the Fracture Unit...yes those radiators are about 10` high & the unit is mostly engine.

The Frac. units are quite impressive in person considering the massive size of them. To this day I've never seen an engine this big.


A closer look at the Fracture Unit

These units are used in retrieving sour gas. If I remember correctly they pump acid into the ground (via acid pumpers) then pump in concrete with concrete pumpers(sorry no pics) then the hook up a dozen or so fracture units to break up the concrete releasing the sour gas. Or something like that. Hey I get paid to know how to build these things not use them, So don't quote me. look up the details yourself...

It was after working here a while that the economy went to shit and I ended up doing a lot of piece work, & temporary jobs, But found a little stability in fixing old equipment, rebuilding construction equipment ect. a lot of repairing buckets,Breakers/Hammers,Shears & Pulverizers. Nowhere near as nice as building new products or doing 1-off custom jobs, But work is work Right? At least I got to learn how to run an Excavator

Shear on linkbelt Excavator, Mostly just did buildup on shear blades & around the "mouth"

Ho-pac(tamper) mostly repaired broken legs (from operators pushing too damn hard)

Allied Hammer(Breaker) after rebuild

The Pulverizers are nasty looking aren't they


Zoomed out view of the mechanical dinosaur.

Since then I've found a good job in a nice small shop doing truck rig ups, We build crane trucks, Tilt decks, End-Dumps, Swaploaders, & smaller jobs as well as custom work. I enjoy it and It's nice to be building something that I know isn't going to immediately get destroyed... If you can't tell it's my mission to learn as much as I can about various aspects of our Industry.& the best way to learn is to Do.
my motto is: "If you didn't learn anything new... It was a waste of a day"

Hope you enjoyed the pictures & as always feel free to post your comments or questions.
If you have any pics you want to share put it in the comment section(if blogger will let you) Or post a link.(if you don't know how I don't mind if you copy & paste the url.
Next series of posts will be Welding 101, I'll be going over the basics of :
GMAW(mig), GTAW(tig), SMAW(stick).
One more project for you...