Down Equipment Costs More Than the Repair
A bush hog deck cracks in the middle of a cut. A three-point hitch arm snaps with half the field left. A cattle gate gets torn off a post and now stock is loose. Every one of those failures happens at the exact moment you cannot afford to load equipment on a trailer and drive an hour each way to a shop. We bring the shop to the field. Our rig carries its own generator, so we weld in a pasture, a barn lot, an equipment yard, or the middle of a hay field with no power hookup and no towing. During cutting and harvest windows, farm calls get priority dispatch because a down machine costs you the season, not just the day.
Agricultural Welding Work We Handle
• Three-point hitch arms, top links, and drawbar repair
• Bush hog and rotary cutter deck cracks and gearbox mounts
• Loader bucket cracks, hay spear mounts, and cutting edges
• Cattle gates, corral panels, headgates, and hinge posts
• Grain auger housings, feed bins, and handling chutes
• Livestock and horse trailer floors, cross-members, and gates
• Disc, plow, and tillage frame repair
• Hardfacing on bucket teeth, box blade edges, and plow points
• Cast iron gearbox and housing repair on older equipment
• Custom implement brackets, hitches, and adapter plates We work on tractors of every color, skid steers, hay equipment, tillage, feed handling, and the fabricated one-off implements that only exist on your place.
Cast Iron and Older Equipment
A lot of East Tennessee farms run equipment older than the person operating it, and parts for those machines are frequently discontinued. Cast iron gearbox housings, manifolds, and implement castings crack, and the usual answer from a dealer is that the part is unavailable. Cast iron is welded with nickel rod, controlled preheat, and a slow controlled cool-down. Rushed cast iron repair cracks again within a season. We do it correctly because for a lot of these machines a good weld is the only path forward.
Hardfacing: Buying Seasons Instead of Buying Parts
Wear surfaces do not break, they disappear. Bucket teeth, box blade cutting edges, plow points, auger flighting, and mixer paddles all thin out under abrasive East Tennessee clay and rock. Hardfacing rod lays down a wear-resistant surface over the worn area. It typically costs a fraction of replacement and buys multiple additional seasons on the same implement. When we are already on your property for a repair, hardfacing the wear surfaces on the same visit is usually the cheapest maintenance you will do all year.
What Farm Welding Costs in East Tennessee
Simple field welds on hitches, gates, brackets, and hangers typically run $200 to $500 including travel. Implement frame, deck, and cross-member repairs generally land between $400 and $1,200 depending on how much metal has to be cut out and how much reinforcement the joint needs. Cast iron repair and hardfacing are quoted after we see the piece, because condition drives the work more than size does. Every quote is free and we price the job before we strike an arc. A clear photo of the break plus the make and model of the implement is usually enough for us to give you a number over the phone.
Why Farm Repairs Fail Twice
Most of the farm repairs we redo are jobs someone else already welded once. The weld itself was fine. The problem is that nobody addressed why the metal failed. Agricultural equipment lives in a fatigue environment: vibration, shock loading, and torsional stress concentrated at a handful of predictable points. If you fill the crack and walk away, the same stress path puts the same crack right back within a season. Our repairs stop-drill the crack tip, grind a full V-groove for penetration, weld multi-pass, and then add a gusset, sleeve, or doubler plate that spreads the load across a wider area. That is the difference between a repair that lasts one cutting and a repair that outlives the implement.