Build An Awesome Trailer Tongue Toolbox Of Your Own!

Five Steps To Building Your Own Awesome Trailer Tongue Toolbox!     A client I have wanted me to fabricate an aluminum roof rack for his cargo tool trailer so he could store his ladders. He also wanted a metal toolbox on the trailer tongue where he could throw wheel chocks, ratchet straps, bungee cords and miscellaneous items for the trailer. He asked if I could incorporate the box into the shape of the trailer tongue.      So I first set about measuring angles and dimensions and tolerances

Seven Tips & Tricks Keep Your Welding Projects Square!

Seven Tips and Tricks to keep your welding projects square!      When it comes to fabricating, you would think that making a box or a rectangle is fairly simple and straightforward.  After all how complicated a shape is a square right? But the challenge comes when you have to meet certain specifications dimensionally.  Depending on the size of the project and its intended use, you may be able to get away with being off a little bit, maybe even as much as 1/4".  But if you have to fabricate to

How To Hang Gates Like a Pro!

How To Hang Gates Like a Pro!       When I take on a project to fabricate a gate for a client, like any fabricator I take  pride in my work and make sure the finished piece is something I'm proud of.  Unless I install the gate myself, I have no control over how it will look once it is installed. If it's hung crookedly, or if it's a double gate and the two halves are hung unequally, people will look at it and ask who built that contraption?      For that reason, I like to ensure the gates are