Beet harvester stopped in a wet field, axle mount torn off a grain trailer, press frame cracked in a unit on Vinces Road? Ring 07495 409006. A 24 hour welder drives down the A140 from Norwich to Diss and the Waveney valley, both sides of the border.
Diss, about 23 miles south of our Norwich workshop down the A140.
When the farm welder is not enough
Rural firms are used to mending their own kit. This page is for the break that is past that.
Diss sits on the Waveney where Norfolk meets Suffolk, a market town ringed by farms, grain stores, hauliers and small engineering units. Most of them fix what they can in house. When the damage is beyond the stick set in the barn, emergency welding in Diss is a call to 07495 409006, at any hour, on Swift Fabrication's 24/7 call out. Describe it, and you will hear where the van is and how soon it could reach you.
It is roughly 23 miles from Norwich, down the A140 to Scole and then a short way west. The lanes beyond are narrow and unlit, so good directions count for as much as the postcode. The van is self contained: generator, MIG, TIG and MMA sets, gas, grinders, jacks, clamps, and plate, angle and box section for patching and bracing.
Mobile welding in Diss
Round Diss, all year
August gets the attention, but the land round Diss works twelve months. Beet lifting runs on into winter, stock wants feeding every day and lorries use the A140 every night.
Combine header frames, trailer drawbars and tipping pivots in summer. Beet harvester frames, elevator sides and chaser bins in the wet months. Plough legs, subsoiler frames and roller drawbars in between. We weld in the yard or at the field gate, and ask about the ground before driving on to it.
A cattle crush with a broken gate, a cracked chassis on a feeder wagon, a feed bin leg buckled by a loader, a grain wall stanchion pushed out of line. Animals still have to be handled and fed tomorrow, so these will not keep for a quiet week.
Units on Vinces Road and Sawmills Road may need a machine frame, a roller door post, a fork truck barrier or a yard gate made safe. Hauliers on the A140 ring about trailer legs, headboards and underrun bars that must be sound before the lorry moves again.
On the line: 07495 409006
What is the machine, and is it loaded, raised or on jacks? Which part has gone: drawbar, pivot, axle mount, frame rail? Is it mild steel, high tensile, cast or stainless, if you know? Some cast and hardened parts will not take a lasting weld, and it is better to find that out on the phone. Will the ground carry a van? Is there mains power? Are straw, chaff, diesel, fertiliser or stock near where sparks will land?
Our first aim is to stop further harm: support the load, brace the frame, tack what is hanging. Then we weld whatever will get the machine through the job in hand. If a proper repair needs a new pin boss, plate or section, we measure up and make it in the Norwich workshop for a return trip. Day or night, you hear the cost and agree it before any work is done.
An injury, or a load or building that might come down, is a 999 matter first. Chock raised kit, stop the engine, pocket the key and stay clear.
Ring now, or plan it for a wet day
Use the phone, not email: 07495 409006. Rural signal can be patchy, so if the call drops we ring you back, and a picture message helps when it will send. Farmers, contractors, hauliers, workshops and householders around Diss share the same line. If your own fitters need another pair of hands, site welders can be supplied.
Jobs that are not stopping you belong on a wet day list. Worn pivots, a tired trailer floor, brackets that are cracked but holding: send photos and sizes on the request a quote page for a free estimate, and we can do the lot in one visit. If a coded welder is required for a lasting repair, state the standard or coding and we will confirm what we can supply.
Finding you in the dark
A rural postcode can cover a mile of lane. Give the farm or business name, the nearest village and a landmark for the turning, such as a grain store, a church or a phone mast. Say which side of the Waveney you are on. After dark, somebody at the road end with a torch or hazard lights saves a lot of searching.
Once the rush is over we can return to Diss for the planned side: strengthening a trailer chassis, new guards, steps and platforms round a drier, or moving and bolting down workshop machines.
Machinery installation in DissDiss emergency welder FAQs
Yes. Eye, Botesdale and the Mid Suffolk villages south of the Waveney are covered on the same terms as Scole, Roydon and Harleston on the Norfolk side. The river is a county boundary, not a limit on where we work.
The A140 part of the trip is predictable. The lanes at the far end are not, and nor is where the van starts from, so no fixed figure is given. When you ring we work it out with you, say what to expect, and phone again if anything changes on the way.
Usually, if the van can get near. We carry our own power and can screen the weld from wind and rain. If the machine can be towed to a track, a concrete pad or a shed, the repair will be quicker and sounder, so say what is possible.
It can be, if the break is ground back to sound metal, prepared and welded properly, which is how we work. What a field repair cannot do is replace a worn or undersized part. Where that is the cause, we patch it to finish the job and make a stronger piece afterwards.
Yes. A driveway gate that has dropped, a railing hit on a village bend or a steel stair that has come loose are all reasons to ring. We make it safe, then agree a price with you for the lasting repair.
Steel fabrication in DissEmergency welding, Diss area
Ring 07495 409006 at any hour for emergency welding in Diss, south Norfolk and the Suffolk villages over the Waveney. Tell us what broke and how to find you.