Tight timelines and tight budgets, again. "Cold formed" the floor to make timelines and save some money, otherwise a fairly standard...

Onto a new adventure! My wife and I were born and raised in the Fraser Valley and have lived there for the last 30 something years. We...

Little oopsie.... pin retainer fell out and allowed the pin to slide out out one side while the grapple had a full load, resulting in...

Early morning emergency call to glue a grapple tip back in. Beautiful morning, almost full moon, stars and a glimmer of northern lights....

Original plan was new tips and fix up the outrigger. As to be expected there was a bunch of cracks in the grapple, the boom crack wasn't...

Another long day going wherever is needed to get things fixed, can't complain about the commute views though. Glued a busted grapple tip...

I was just about to start cutting shackle bolts on the truck when I got a work call so I threw it all back together, lucky timing. Nice...

Wrapped up a big one today. Complete overhaul on the front end of this 870 bucket. Fixed numerous cracks in the frog, built up worn...

Cutting up scraps, crops and used cutting edges to make this bucket as good as possible. A bit more time put in but the customer has all...

New edge and heel straps to keep this bucket going for a good while longer. Owner had had bad luck with bolt on edges not lasting a...

Another bucket re lug. Originally we wanted to take the good lugs off the trashed bucket and re use them, they looked really close but...

Thinking outside the box to get the repair done

The left side boom ear on this log loader suffered a pretty catastrophic failure and the right was cracking as well. The only way to fix...

My new torch reel arrived last week so this weekend I spent some time cleaning up the torch cabinet. Every efficiency increase makes the...

I don't regret for half a second investing in a truck with crane. It might not be the newest, shiniest or flashiest rig on the road but...

Squamish was back to its usual fantastic weather of liquid sunshine . Thankfully I was done fitting for a few days and didn't need the...

January was a busy month, I spent pretty much all of January in Squamish. Some of it has been in the shop, some of it outside, ...

The "real" ones finally showed up! Contact us today about your next project or repair! mike@burntbeardfab.ca 604-997-0327

That was a busy week! Started with some equipment repairs and more ice lugs before bombing up to Squamish for some out of town work. One...

Welded ice lugs onto a drill then switched gears and did a rush repair on an aluminum oil pan in the evening. I managed to pop the dent...