Welding Fabrication and Pricing out your Work
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- čas přidán 10. 10. 2019
- Welding Fabrication and Pricing out your Work. If you are like most of us you have probably thought about ways to make some money with your welding hobby. Welding projects can be a great way to earn some side money but how do you know how much to charge? Well today we are going to talk about how to price out your work, how to figure out the cost of your materials, how to factor in the cost of your consumables and how to arrange your workflow so you are working efficiently and making the most out of your time. There are many ways of calculating cost but this just one of the ways that I do it.
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Hello Brandon, In the old days I used to draft up my design then go over to my buddy's architect office and he would make a blue print from my draft. At that point I knew how much material I needed, the number of inches of weld, the number of cuts, and drill points for the project. Plus the square footage of area I needed to prime and paint. From that I could submit an accurate bid, and still have an acceptable cushion built into the job. If the job was anything more that a one off I built tooling (welding, cutting, and drilling jigs) after I got the job. This gave me the ability to know exactly how long it would take to complete the project, and every piece would be exactly the same, plus I was able to provide my customer with a realistic completion date. One other caveat (and this one really helps) is after you have your material list completed shop around and find the most economical price you could. Then spend the entire material budget so you have way more material you needed. This way over time you had a very nice inventory of material that was already paid for, this paid off in spades when times were slow. And if a new customer walked into the shop with a little 10 or 15 minute job you had the ability to do the job for free and tell him to come back if he had a bigger project or repair in the future. If the job was 20 minutes or more I would tell him what it would cost before I started, I never advertised and depended on quality work, and word of mouth to grow my business. Any thing I designed and built from scratch I guaranteed for one year excluding paint. It was over all a good business formula for me, and mind you it was years before computers were around. I noticed you set your jobs up like and assembly line which I believe is the best possible way to keep the work flow moving smoothly. Good luck and keep the faith in the meantime don't take any wooden nickles.
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Thanks for the informative vide. I'm starting to weld small items to sell on the side and been tinkering around how or what to charge. Like how ur not ashamed to say I made a mistake and like how u state to learn from you. Again thank you from south Texas. Was wonder if I had a video about putting vise on ur table.
Hi brandon love your video on how to estimate your work,so well explained,also you do wounderful work .Tony from Canada 🇨🇦
Excellent topic and well presented. Laying it out like you did makes it a lot easier. I do custom gun work along with wood and some metal fabrication and I always wrestle with what to charge. Most of the time I end up giving my work away. I like the way you broke it down... Good video!
Hey Brandon, In the old days I built a welding table out of a 1.5 inch 4x8 plate with 6 adjustable feet. You could weld angle iron and or cut off C clamps to it with no problem. I did fire two guys for using a grinder on edge to grind the tacks down, I specified a cupped grinder and a flat wheel, plus a belt sander so we could maintain a relatively flat table + or - .010. It wasn't perfect but close enough for most jobs. If the tolerances were tighter than that I used the lathe and milling machine then shimmed the parts to be welded, and used a hiliarc to weld them. It was slow but way beyond my competitors standard of + or - half a hammer handle. Hang in there Bud and keep up the great work, don't let the industry standard deteriorate. The table did get out of whack and I hauled it to my buddies shop and he put it on the Blanchard, I lost .125 of the original thickness but it was flat LOL
I can’t wait to get started on some small projects like this. Thanks for the ideas.
Thanks for sharing your methods and formulas! This is great for us just starting out.
Good information, I side hustle and do perty decent, but I always struggle on the bidding.
I use the slipper clutch part of the drill when tapping. I don't like the idea of the bits slipping on the jaws of the chuck. But cordless drills work great for tapping holes. Just need to go easy, let the tap do the work, not the drill (so to speak). Great video. My new welder just got delivered.
Looks great Brandon, keep up the good work and videos.
I like that diamond wheel, I'm going to give it a try. Thx👍
Thanks for this video. Your order of operations explanation was very helpful. As to welding the nuts on then chasing them with a tap--try threading the screw in nut and tape the exposed threads with masking tape to keep the spatter off the threads. This does 3 things in one step,--gives you a way to hold the nut, you have to thread the screw in anyway and you don’t have to chase the threads later.
Thanks for the video very sound advice
Thank you for the video
Looking good as usual Brandon.. Thank you..
Thanks for the info, much aprreachiated. i also liked the video.
Ok, this is an old one that I am catching up on, but it gives the reason that I like your channel so much. YOu give practical information that is applicable to a multitude of applications. I am a beginnger, so I doubt I will charge for what I do, but lay out, planning, performing, it all good information. Thanks!!!
Best information thank you