Every farm has a corner of kit waiting for a welder: the cultivator with a cracked leg, the bale trailer with a bent rave, the gate that drags. Our mobile welding van comes down the A140 to Diss and clears that list in your yard.
Diss, about 23 miles south of our Norwich workshop down the A140.
On site welding in the Waveney valley
An implement repaired in February does not let you down in the middle of August.
Swift Fabrication provides mobile welding in Diss for the farms, workshops and households along the Norfolk and Suffolk border. The welder who turns up is fully qualified and carries MIG, TIG and stick sets, a generator, gas, grinders and a rack of plate, angle and box section, so a yard without a socket is no obstacle.
Most of what breaks round here is agricultural. Cultivator frames fatigue, plough headstocks crack, trailer floors rot through and loader brackets stretch. Our advice to growers near Diss: walk the yard in the quiet months, write down everything that wants welding and book one visit for the lot. Estimates are free and nothing starts until you accept the price. A new barn frame or lean to is workshop work, linked below.
Structural steel in Diss
What we weld near Diss
Tell us how many items are on the list and what each one is. A rough note will do. We will say which suit a yard repair and which belong on our bench in Norwich.
Cracked legs and frames, torn headstock plates, worn tine brackets, snapped drawbar eyes, split trailer floors and bent raves. Fatigued metal is cut out, the joint is welded with the rod or wire that suits the steel, then gusseted.
Stanchion feet eaten away at ground level, door runners knocked off line, feed barriers, pen gates and hanging posts. Rotten steel is replaced, not patched over.
On the Vinces Road and Sawmills Road estates the calls are for racking guards, trailer ramps, stainless benches and roller door frames. In Roydon, Scole and Eye it is railings, handrails and garden gates. Aluminium: ask first.
How a Diss visit works
Walk round with a phone. One picture of each item and one of the break is plenty, with a line saying what it is. Name your village and which side of the river you farm, because the Diss area runs well into Mid Suffolk.
The drive from Norwich goes into an estimate once per visit, so six repairs in one yard cost far less than six separate call outs. That is the whole case for the list. The remainder is the time each repair takes, the steel and consumables, and the welding process. Neighbours sometimes share a day, which suits us as well.
Local note: a rural postcode here can cover a mile of lane. Give us the farm name, nearest village and which gateway to use.
Making the list
For every item jot down what it is, the make and model if it is an implement, where it has failed and whether it has been welded before. Old repairs matter, because weld laid over weld often hides a crack still running underneath.
For the yard, say whether there is hard standing, whether the machine can be pulled clear of straw, chaff and the diesel tank, and whether anything needs lifting or turning over to reach the break. A loader and driver on hand can save an hour.
Villages we reach
The A140 brings us straight down from Norwich to the Scole junction, where the A143 heads east to Harleston and west towards Botesdale. Diss itself, Roydon and the estates on Vinces Road and Sawmills Road are a short hop from that roundabout.
South of the river you are in Suffolk, and Eye and the Mid Suffolk villages are as easy for us as the Norfolk side. We cover the rest of East Anglia too. Planning ahead is the theme of this page, but breakages do not read calendars, so 07495 409006 is answered day and night.
All our steelwork services in DissDiss welding questions
Yes. Eye, Botesdale and the Mid Suffolk villages south of Diss are covered exactly as Roydon, Scole and Harleston are on the Norfolk bank. The county boundary changes nothing in the estimate. Distance from the A140 is what counts.
No. A generator on the van runs the welding sets, grinders and lights, so an open yard, a field gateway or a barn with one tired socket is fine. If a sound supply sits close to the job, mention it and we may plug in.
It can be, but at 23 miles each way the travel weighs heavily on a ten minute weld. Two better routes: add it to a list with other repairs, or carry it to our Norwich workshop in a pickup. If you searched welder near me from Diss, ring and we will say which is cheaper.
Simple steel parts, yes. Brackets, plates, drawbars, hanging posts and frames are cut and welded from stock, on site if small, in the workshop if not. Machined, cast or hardened components are the maker's territory. Show us the broken piece and we will tell you which it is.
Diss is regular ground for us. A listed round of repairs is booked for a date you choose. In a breakdown, ring at once and we will tell you where the van is and when it can be with you.
Swift Fabrication Services Ltd
Call 07495 409006, or send the list with a photograph of each item and your nearest village to Diss, for a free estimate.
