Mobile weldingwhen it cannot move.

• The equipment is down where it sits and cannot be towed or loaded.
• The part is structural to something fixed, such as a gate on set posts or a panel line in the ground.
• It is too heavy to load without a forklift at both ends.
• Several jobs are waiting at one address, which is the case where a callout costs least per repair.

1. Disconnect both battery terminals on anything with electronics, and unplug the control modules if the work is near them.
2. Clear ten feet around the joint, moving back the dry grass, fuel cans, oil rags, hydraulic puddles and seed bags, because the Valley is dry from May through November.
3. Wash the area if it is greasy. Weld metal does not stick to oil, paint or rust, and cleaning it on site is billed at the same rate as the welding.
4. Support the load, since anything held up by the part being cut or welded has to be blocked beforehand.
5. Have water and a fire extinguisher nearby, although we carry both on the truck as well.

Most of the work here is done at the bench, and a part brought in is billed by the hour from the time the work starts, with a one hour minimum and nothing added for a trip. A callout is the other way around: the minimum covers the drive, the equipment for the day and the first two hours on site, and the clock runs by the quarter hour after that. Several jobs at one address, or several stops on the same run, are billed at the hourly rate without a second minimum. Rates do not stack, so a callout at 10pm is billed at the emergency rate rather than at the emergency and the after-hours rate together. Example jobs and what they came to are on the welding rates page.