Five Places to Find a Welder in Raleigh

Finding a welder who does the kind of work you need done can be a chore. Welding is used across a broad range of activities from recreational welding, art, auto repair, security fencing and industrial/commercial applications.

In the industrial and construction arena you can find:

Gregory Poole Equipment Co
4807 Beryl Rd
Raleigh, NC
(800) 447-3114

(www.gregorypoole.com/)

This would be a good place to find a large firm that has the capacity to handle a broad range a large size welding projects.

Some years back, I worked in a shipyard in Maine where they build Cruisers and Destroyers for the U.S. Navy. When they first began building the ships, they were all build with steel. This required a certain type of welding, which many of the trade workers became quite proficient.

As the program went along; the Navy wanted faster, roomier and quieter ships to meet the constantly changing needs of modern combat. This was particularly true after we got to a glimpse of what modern missiles can do to large, slow steel ships in Britton's war with Argentina.

Argentina lost the war, yet inflicted extraordinary casualties on the British Navy. In part due to the high profile large steel ships present to a missile.

As a result the Navy ordered that most of the new ships be made with Aluminum hulls. It is lighter, thinner and apparently allows them to do things to reduce its radar imagine that a steel ship won't.

In order to accommodate this change, all the welders that wanted to work on the new ships had to learn a whole new way of welding. This was a massive industrial welding application.

I'm not sure anyone around Raleigh would have been large enough to handle that welding job, though I am sure some of the newly proposed buildings in downtown may be in the same size range plus the need for a foundation.