OneWelder
Senior Member
Since I am on a Roll here Just what is a "BACKYARD MECHANIC " I think a lot if not most here would or have qualified for this title,
Yet some of the worst frame work I have seen was done by a local trk . DEALERSHIP , that should certainly have known better than to repair broken cross members by welding to main frame rails - not once but three times - then told the guy to bad ,you need a whole new frame
I repaired it in my back yard - and it was still good when he sold trk 5yrs later.
Another so called qualified trk repair place thought mounting a fifth wheel by means of cutting holes in frame with torch, was quality work
I am trying to say that there is good and bad in every type of buss.
Just because it is one man shop does not mean poor quality. A lot of these small buss. were people that worked at dealerships and were factory trained . Even if they were not it does not make them the village idiot
In my case I went to NHTI passing their course in welding i went to work building modular home transport trailers, then Uncle Sam put me through a welding course in the Army for repairs to their equipment. I passed the bridge welding qualification in 5 states. In the 45 years that I have been working I have both gone seminaries and study on my own to better myself. I believe most on this board try to do this also, or they would not be here
So I consider Hendricks reply about people doing their own work are incompetent an insult to all of us
Yet some of the worst frame work I have seen was done by a local trk . DEALERSHIP , that should certainly have known better than to repair broken cross members by welding to main frame rails - not once but three times - then told the guy to bad ,you need a whole new frame
I repaired it in my back yard - and it was still good when he sold trk 5yrs later.
Another so called qualified trk repair place thought mounting a fifth wheel by means of cutting holes in frame with torch, was quality work
I am trying to say that there is good and bad in every type of buss.
Just because it is one man shop does not mean poor quality. A lot of these small buss. were people that worked at dealerships and were factory trained . Even if they were not it does not make them the village idiot
In my case I went to NHTI passing their course in welding i went to work building modular home transport trailers, then Uncle Sam put me through a welding course in the Army for repairs to their equipment. I passed the bridge welding qualification in 5 states. In the 45 years that I have been working I have both gone seminaries and study on my own to better myself. I believe most on this board try to do this also, or they would not be here
So I consider Hendricks reply about people doing their own work are incompetent an insult to all of us