Basic Welding for Farm and Ranch: Essential Tools and Techniques for Repairing and Fabricating Farm Equipment - Softcover

Galvery, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612128785 ISBN 13: 9781612128788

Publisher: Storey, 2019

Synopsis

This guidebook to the essential tools and skills needed for basic welding teaches even the novice everything they need to know to do it themselves, with projects and techniques specially tailored for farm and ranch equipment fabrication and repairs.

About this title

About the Author

William Galvery is a retired professor of welding technology. He has more than 30 years of industrial welding experience and is an American Welding Society Certified Welding Educator and Instructor. For many years, he taught welding at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. He now lives in Panama City, Florida.Michael Martindell is an artist and custom metal fabricator with over 25 years of welding experience. He currently works out of his studio in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and teaches classes in beginner welding and metal sculpture at Snow Farm, a New England craft school in Williamsburg, Massachusetts.

From the Back Cover

Save Time. Save Money.

Your equipment is valuable. Knowing how to repair and fabricate essential hardware will help make it last.

Master the fundamentals of welding, brazing, and soldering so you can repair equipment both big and small, from a garden rake to a mower. Learn to add a bale spear to your tractor bucket, build a wall-mount hay feeder, or make metal hooks. Real repair scenarios help you strategize for those moments when you need to fix equipment in bad weather, at awkward angles, or out in the field.

Edition details

• Publisher: Storey
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1612128785
• ISBN 13: 9781612128788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256