I started my mobile welding business in December, and things are starting to pick up for me this month. I watch your videos religiously. Forever grateful for all the bomb-ass content you throw our way. Thanks man!
How is your business going now? And did you do similar work before you went to welding school? I would appreciate any info you can give as I am thinking about starting welding school soon
honestly we need more people too spread the word and knowledge like your doing! Learn from others mistakes and grow from those, stop letting these big corporations take advantage of the people trying too come up and holding all the ins and outs of how business works. Thank you my friend!
You know how some people build their way up, and then pull the ladder behind them? you're the opposite of that. you figure shit out, and spell it out for the people starting out. You're a good dude. Thanks for posting!
I remember when you replaced that trailer jack you said "I'm not a painter I'm a welder, you wouldn't have a painter weld do your welding" 😆 Not hating just saying I pay attention 😆
No BS, straight to the point, and informative. You got yourself a new follower! I’m currently a welding contractor myself and been having some hiccups about how to contract out to other welders and finding more work. You answered my questions and can’t wait to find out more with what you have to share. Thank you!
I love your no bs no sugar lay out the sauce demeanour, still not enough hours on the gun or stick to consider striking out, dont even think full time melting would b my bag, but I have got a lot of use full tips, and maybe even just enjoy the entertainment value of your vids, ty Anthony
I love these business tip videos.. after all, it’s more of the side people don’t see or understand, so you not sugarcoating anything while shedding light on this angle of it is invaluable.
Working with others is how we can take on bigger projects, but it is a double edge sword if the other person sucks and you didn't know it. Together we can build anything with the right dude's.
Spot on information yet again. Being able to subcontract for a few companies, and having some people you can trust to sub out. And both of those things are pretty hard to come by. But the truly valuable thing is other people that on paper are “competition” but in real life the other entrepreneurs are always stepping out to help the other entrepreneurs.
Well said! You are definitely not an idiot! Great delivery on topics I never would even consider knowing about. I don’t think like that so I still have to punch the clock for the man! Good on ya Meltin Metal!
Great video and fantastic advice. Your videos really help to understand the game and running a business there’s all ways something to learn and all ways great to hear advice from someone who’s been done and learned. Massive thanks 🙏🏻 👍👍👍
Can you make a video about traveling for work? Maybe how often you have to leave home state to stay busy? Love the content brody. You start these videos off like every get rich quick scheme but only drop actual knowledge and useful real world, real field POV of the trade.
Once again, amazing information! Can you do a video about slag jumping and how dangerous it is? I had a piece hit me in my eye thank god I had my glasses on.
So...concrete guy here in Northern Michigan. Poured walls. Vankalker construction, been with this guy for more than ten years. So, you get a job...sub it out...get paid just for handling the job...never had to pick up a tool...just a phone. It's called "middle man" .... I like it. I however dislike dealing with the "middle man" as it usually means more money. 😁
Rad video but the part of shitty welds being out in the wild, it just hurts my soul. Iam a NDT guy and everything I look at is code stuff. So I weld for funzies and I hold my self to code standards as well. I also nerd the fuck out on the stuff as well. Thats why iam trying to be a cwi. But you are right, a lot of welds hold. But dude, some hand rails are scary as fuck. Some buildings are as well. I been to some chemical plants that had no idea what a weld procedure was 😅.
So do you get the full payment before hand from the customer and then give the person you are contracting to do it, a percentage of the money ? And vise versa say You wanted me to go weld something for you would you have already been fully paid by the customer and pay me a percentage of it? And if you finance doesn’t that mean you have to pay them ? Like for “financing supplies” is that in form of a business loan type deal ?
If you want to go into business, a good portion of the decisions you make will be tax driven. BEFORE you into business learn a lot about how taxes and business work. Do you want to incorporate? If you incorporate do you want a C corp, S corp or an LLC? What business purchases are tax deductible and which are not. A good portion of what you need to do as a business person is keeping the money you worked so hard to earn. If you let it all the money you earn fly out of your hands what good is it go into business yourself? In fact BEFORE you learn to weld, sit down with someone that you trust and ask them all the tax questions you might have. Might be worth a $100 for an hour consult with an expert.
That was good - pushing the camera over at the end, I enjoyed that. Most of these guys on job-sites are morons, well it was 15 years ago in Canada, Ontario. What they were was experts in was excuses A-#1, they had a rolodex of them. Wow is all I say about that. All wanting to play play Big-Man, I'm in charge They all wanted to be someone like you! What they were was an employee driving a welding rig around, but they behaved like they was the owner operator, a contractor. Plus they were given titles by the owner A couple of the guy's were good, decent. They would lift a 10 ton door on hinges, mill at quarry with a 5 1/2 ton chain come along, than they unhook at the top and than than flip the hook around, while the door was at the top balanced on its own weight on the hinges, with a safety chain of 2- 1/2 tons hooked up while the flipped the hook, The guy reached up unhooked from the lifting eye, dropped the chain and tapped the door with hook and that door come over, grabbed the guys shoulder on the way down and folded him into the grating, took that 2 1/2 ton safety chain hook and pulled it straight and flat. Only saving grace was the soft mud under his feet and limit of the door against the unit on the hinges. Young guy married with children too all broken up, probability never work again, money, greed at play, cutting corners off for a big pay day. for the price of installing a hydraulic system, that would have done the job in a couple of minutes, very safely. The wooden shoe people. Nope for me! bye see ya. Now I'm going to build my own line of equipment for the hobbyist out of stainless for stainless, non furious stuff, and the arts and crafts, less grinding and prepping, painting etc.. like for steel. Have no interest for doing steel anymore at my age. Another niche that's lacking, that's cleaner, tig work that's it, just for some pocket money keep it light and simple, throw the parts in to a tumbler or two on a timer. I'm in no rush so.. make a nice enclosure for it on some rubber with some sound proofing keep the noise level down, decent. At my age, work smarter not harder and cleaner..
He buys, and "resells" them for a markup due to him fronting the money for the materials to do the job. Because some places want COD and guys first starting in the game don't always have the liquid cash for materials. he fronts the cash and makes a little extra on the back end from doing so
