Farm equipment welding repair, done where the equipment broke.
Houston County grows more peanuts than any county in Alabama, and peanut ground eats steel: diggers, shakers, carts, and cutters crack on a schedule every season sets. Dothan Welding Repair runs a self-powered rig to the field, welds it where it sits, and prints its rates, which no welder serving this belt has ever done.
The repair list, by machine
Peanut diggers and shakers
Bent and cracked digger shanks, torn shaker chain mounts, split frames, and worn blade carriers. Shanks get beveled and multi-passed, stress points get gusseted, and during harvest these calls jump every queue we have. Typical range $150 to $600.
Dump carts and grain trailers
Cracked hinge plates, split box seams, torn tongue and axle mounts, and stretched frames. Box seams get backed and continuous-welded where the load actually works them; a stitched seam in a loaded cart is a repair on layaway.
Bush hogs and cutters
Cracked decks, torn gearbox mounts, bent blade bars, and skid shoes worn through. Deck cracks get plated from above and below, and gearbox mounts get trued so the driveline stops eating itself. Usually $150 to $450.
Loader buckets and blades
Cutting edges rebuilt or replaced, cracked shells stitched and plated, worn bosses and pin holes bored and sleeved. A rebuilt edge on a worn bucket is the cheapest capacity upgrade money buys on a farm.
Gates, pens, and feeders
Pipe gates built and hung, corral panels squared, head gate frames trued, creep feeders re-legged, and hanging posts set in concrete with caps so they do not rust off at the ground line. Priced by the job, printed on the cost page.
Cast iron and aluminum
Gearbox housings and manifolds with pre-heat and nickel rod; aluminum ramps, dovetails, and irrigation fittings with the spool gun. The two calls every farm makes eventually and most welders decline.
Why field repair beats the trailer ride to town
Hauling a twelve-foot implement to a shop costs a truck, a trailer, two drives, and a day of season, before the shop’s queue even starts. The mobile math is simpler: one trip fee, printed on the cost page, and the repair happens with the machine still hitched. During harvest that difference is not convenience, it is the crop. The Wiregrass has run on this arithmetic for generations; what it has not had is a welding service you could find online, with the USDA counting nearly seven hundred farms in Houston County alone and the SERP serving them Vermont phone numbers.
The off-season rebuild window
The smartest money in farm welding is spent in December through February. Machines can sit, schedules are open, and every crack found in winter is an emergency that never happens in October. We run winter rebuild lists across Headland, Cottonwood, and Abbeville: shanks, seams, mounts, edges, and pen steel, batched so one trip fee covers the yard. Book it when the combines park.
Get a farm repair priced
Say what machine, what broke, and where it sits. Photos texted to (334) 686-0777 get same-day numbers off the published table.
Farm welding questions, answered straight
Do you repair farm equipment in the field?
Yes, that is the core of the business. The rig is self-powered and carries cutting, welding, and common repair stock, so diggers, carts, bush hogs, and buckets get fixed where they sit with the machine still hitched. Most of Houston and Henry counties is within twenty-five minutes of our Dothan base.
What does farm welding cost around Dothan?
The published rate is $85 to $125 per hour plus a flat $40 to $75 trip fee, one-hour minimum. Typical implement repairs land between $150 and $600, and batching several repairs into one visit spreads the trip fee across the list. The full table is on the cost page, and the invoice matches the quote.
Can you get to a breakdown during peanut harvest?
Yes. September and October run on priority routing: harvest breakdowns jump the schedule, the phone is answered after dark, and the truck carries shank steel and gusset stock all season. A digger down at dusk in Headland usually has the rig beside it within the hour.
Will the repair hold, or will it crack again next season?
A proper implement repair changes the failure itself, never the crack alone: beveled full-penetration welds, gussets where the stress concentrates, and plate doublers on fatigued sections. Metal that is too far gone gets an honest replace-it answer instead of a weld that buys one more month. Repairs that come back get looked at free.
Dothan Welding Repair serves the whole peanut belt from Dothan. Emergencies live on the emergency page, the full price table on the cost guide, and everything else at the homepage.