Product range
Wire, Rigging & Lifting
Chain, shackles and lifting assemblies to rig the frames and lifters we build.
Services
Welding & Fabrication
Crab frames, heavy equipment buckets, pots, dredges, sorting grids, gangways and ladders — welded and fabricated here in mild steel, stainless, aluminium and Hardox, repaired or built new.
The service
Known for crab frames. Not limited to them.
Crab frames are what this shop is known for — standard patterns and custom builds, rolled and welded here, then netted in the loft next door. The same benches turn out pots for cod, crab, lobster and whelk, sea cucumber dredges, sorting grids, gangways, Jacob's ladders, rails and floating docks.
The other half of the work never goes near the water. Heavy equipment buckets come in worn and go out rebuilt, and the construction trade brings us welding repairs and maintenance. Some of that is repair, some of it is built new from a drawing.
Capabilities
What we do
Welding and fabrication in Atlantic Canada — crab frames, heavy equipment bucket repairs and rebuilds, welding for the construction industry, and marine fabrication in mild steel, stainless, aluminium and Hardox, built new or repaired to your drawing.
Crab frames
Standard patterns and custom builds — the work this shop is known for, rolled and welded here.
Custom fabrication
From your drawings and measurements, or from the part itself, built to your requirement.
Heavy equipment repair
Buckets repaired and rebuilt, and maintenance and repair work on the machines they hang off.
Construction welding
Welding repairs and maintenance for the construction industry.
Marine fabrication
Pots, sea cucumber dredges, sorting grids, gangways, Jacob's ladders, rails and floating docks.
Lifting and handling frames
Pallet lifters, spinners and safety and recovery net frames, built and rigged to the job.
The bench
What comes through the door.
Everything here is repaired or built new in one of our shops. Where a job has a drawing we build to it; where it does not, we measure the part.
| Work | Material | New or repair | Made to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crab frames | Mild steel | Both | Standard pattern, or your build |
| Heavy equipment buckets | Mild steel, Hardox | Both | The bucket, measured on the floor |
| Pots — cod, crab, lobster, whelk | Mild steel, stainless | Both | Standard, or to your fishery |
| Sea cucumber dredges | Mild steel, stainless | Both | Your drawing or ours |
| Sorting grids | Stainless, aluminium | Both | The extension they fit |
| Gangways, ladders and rails | Aluminium, mild steel | Both | Measurements off the vessel or site |
| Floating docks | Mild steel, aluminium | Both | Your layout |
| Pallet lifters and spinners | Mild steel | Both | The load they carry |
Scroll the table sideways for all 4 columns.
Hardox goes where the wear is. Stainless and aluminium go where the salt is, or where weight matters.
The shop
What leaves this floor.
Every photograph below is our own shop floor, our own machines, and work that went out the door — bare steel on one bench, a rebuild on the next, and pallets of finished gear in the yard.
Crab frames and highflyers
Crab frames are rolled, jigged and welded in batches, then stacked on pallets and sent to a neighbouring branch for delivery. The highflyers alongside them are a separate line of work.
Frames, netted
Steel out of this shop and twine out of the loft, on the same site. A frame does not have to travel to become a finished pot.
On the bench
Wire feed, stick and aluminium welding on the floor, with repairs on one bench and new builds going together on the next.
- Welding
- Wire feed · stick · aluminium
- Forming
- Ironworkers · bending · rolling
- Cutting
- Plasma · gougers
- Also on hand
- Portable welders
Sea cucumber dredges
Five-bar frames welded up in mild steel with the company name welded along the cutting bar, netted here, and back here for repair and re-netting when the ground has been hard on them.
Measured, not eyeballed
A stainless dredge with the tape run across it before it leaves. Where there is no drawing we take the measurements off the part, and the part is checked against them.
Buckets, rebuilt
A bucket comes in with the edge gone and the wear plate thin. It goes out with new steel where the ground took it — Hardox where the wear is worst — and the adapters set back true.
A crusher surge bin, relined
Worn plate cut out, new plate hoisted in on the chain block and welded home. Construction-industry repair on a machine that has to be fixed where it stands.
Safety and recovery nets
Netting on aluminium and steel frames for man-overboard recovery and rail safety — built to the vessel's freeboard, then rigged and checked on board before anyone relies on them.
Pots, framed and netted
Netting laced over the finished frame, then stacked and palletised in batches. Cod, crab, lobster and whelk pots all go together the same way, to the pattern the fishery works to.
Then they go and fish
A pot built on this floor, coming up full on a commercial trip. That is the standard the steel is built to — not the bench, the ground.
What you get back
Steel that goes back to work.
A repair leaves here fit to go straight back on the machine or the boat. A new build leaves here to the drawing you gave us, or to the measurements we took off the part when there was no drawing.
And when it comes back worn — because working steel does — it comes back to the shop that built it.
- 01
The part, built or repaired
New steel where the wear is, or a new build to your requirement.
- 02
In the right material
Mild steel, stainless, aluminium or Hardox — chosen for the load, the salt or the wear.
- 03
Made to your drawing
Or to the measurements we took, when the drawing does not exist.
- 04
Repaired again next season
The shop that built it is the shop that fixes it.
Process
How we work
One conversation starts it — we scope the job, do the work, and stand behind it through the season.
- 01
Bring it in
A drawing, a set of measurements, or the broken part on a pallet.
- 02
Scope and material
What it has to carry and what it has to survive — mild steel, stainless, aluminium or Hardox.
- 03
Cut, form, weld
Plasma and ironworkers to cut, rolls and brakes to form, wire feed or stick to join.
- 04
Fit and finish
Fitted up, finished, painted where it needs it, and rigged if it lifts.
- 05
Back again when it wears
Working steel comes back. We repair what we built, and what we did not.
Typical workCrab frames, standard or customHeavy equipment bucket rebuildSea cucumber dredge or sorting gridGangway, ladder or rail to measurementPallet lifter built to the load
Solutions
Welding & Fabrication, and everything around it.
We supply the gear and we do the work. Both halves come from the same four shops.
Gear we supply for this work
All products
Product range
Aquaculture & Marine
Flotation, mooring and marine hardware to finish docks, gangways and deck work.
Where this work shows up
All industries
Local support
Welding & Fabrication at four Atlantic Canada branches.
Bring gear to the nearest shop or call — every request routes to the right crew, and in-season work is scheduled around your openings.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Crab frames. It is the work we do most of and what the fleet comes to us for, in standard patterns and to customer drawings alike.
Mild steel, stainless, aluminium and Hardox. Hardox goes where the wear is worst — bucket edges and ground-engaging work. Stainless and aluminium go where the salt is, or where weight matters.
Yes. Send drawings and measurements and we will fabricate to them. If there is no drawing, bring the part or the measurements and we will work from those.
Three things. Work that needs a stamped engineering design — bring us the drawing once an engineer has signed it and we will build to it. Coded pressure vessel and pipeline welding. And casting and heavy machining. If your job is one of those, call the shop anyway; we would rather point you somewhere useful than take the work.
Both, in the same shop. Most weeks it is a mix — a bucket rebuilt on one bench, a new frame going together on the next.
Yes. Heavy equipment repairs and rebuilds are a steady part of the shop's work, and so is welding and maintenance for the construction trade.
Start a quote. We route it to the right branch.
Send specs, photos, drawings, or inspection and testing requests. Your reply comes from the branch that will do the work.