Heavy Equipment Repair
Structural weld repairs on excavators, dozers, loaders, and scrapers. Machines go back in the dirt fast — without cut corners.
- Boom & stick cracks
- Bucket edge hard-facing
- Undercarriage frames
Welding & fabrication — St. George, Utah
Welded to a higher spec.
Heavy equipment, trailers, and structural steel for Washington County — repaired and fabricated by a welder trained on aerospace work, where a bad bead doesn't fly.
Call (406) 480-4912
Request a quote
Call or text — you'll get the welder, not a front desk.
Certification
ASME Certified
Background
Aerospace Fab
Target turnaround
48 Hours
Mobile range
Washington Co.
Scope of work
If it's steel and it matters, it's ours.
Six ways the shop earns its keep — in the bay or out on your site.
Trailer Fab & Repair
Custom builds and full structural repairs — flatbeds, lowboys, goosenecks, utility. Straightened, decked, and road-ready.
- Frame straightening
- Gooseneck & couplers
- Axle & suspension
Structural Welding
Beams, frames, brackets, and custom steel assemblies for commercial and industrial work — full-penetration welds where the spec calls for them.
- Beams & frames
- Brackets & assemblies
- Built to print
Mobile Welding
The shop rolls to you. Breakdowns, jobsite fabrication, and field repairs across Washington County and surrounding areas.
- On-site breakdowns
- Jobsite fabrication
- Field repairs
Custom Fabrication
Racks, guards, bumpers, hitches, work platforms, one-off parts — built to your prints or designed from a napkin sketch.
- Truck accessories
- Guards & platforms
- One-off parts
Farm & Ranch Metalwork
Gates, corrals, water system hardware, hitches, and equipment fab for the agricultural and livestock operations this county runs on.
- Gates & fencing
- Corrals & livestock
- Hitch & equipment
The standard
Aerospace habits don't switch off.
Most shops weld fast and call it done. This one runs every job through the same process discipline aerospace parts get — because that's the only way the owner knows how to work.
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CERT.
ASME-certified welder
Certified work, not claimed work. The paper's real and the bead shows it.
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ORIGIN
2+ years of aerospace fabrication
Tolerances measured in thousandths, where weld quality is non-negotiable and every pass gets inspected.
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ACCESS
Owner-operated, start to finish
The person quoting your job is the person welding it — and the one standing behind it after.
Capability index
The work, itemized.
The operations we get called for most. If yours isn't on the list, call anyway — if it's steel, there's a good chance it's ours.
MIG — GMAW
TIG — GTAW
STICK — SMAW
| Ref | Operation | Category |
|---|---|---|
| HE-01 | Excavator boom & stick repair | Heavy equipment |
| HE-02 | Bucket tooth & edge hard-facing | Heavy equipment |
| HE-03 | Undercarriage frame repair | Heavy equipment |
| HE-04 | Loader arm & bucket repair | Heavy equipment |
| TR-01 | Trailer frame straightening | Trailers |
| TR-02 | Gooseneck & coupler replacement | Trailers |
| TR-03 | Deck replacement | Trailers |
| TR-04 | Axle & suspension welding | Trailers |
| FB-01 | Custom truck accessories | Fabrication |
| FB-02 | Steel gate & fence fabrication | Fab / ranch |
| FB-03 | Corral & livestock structures | Fab / ranch |
| FB-04 | Hydraulic line bracket fab | Fabrication |
Something not listed? Describe the job — straight answer either way.
Mobile welding — service area
The shop rolls to you.
A machine that can't move shouldn't wait on one that can. Field repairs, breakdowns, and on-site fabrication anywhere in Washington County — and beyond it when the job makes sense.
- Dispatched from St. George. Hurricane, Washington, Santa Clara, Ivins — all inside the everyday radius.
- 48-hour target turnaround. Downtime costs more than welding does. We schedule like we know it.
- Call ahead, we load accordingly. Describe the break and the rig shows up ready for it.
Call the truck out
Mon–Fri 7a–6p · Sat 8a–2p · (406) 480-4912
How a job runs
No guesswork. No surprise invoices.
Four steps, in the same order, every time. You'll always know where your job stands and what it costs.
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Call or text
Describe the problem or the build. Photos of the break help us quote it right the first time.
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Straight number
Flat-rate or itemized quote before work starts. The number you hear is the number you pay.
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The work
Fit-up, prep, weld — on schedule. If scope changes, you get a call before it does, not after.
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Inspected hand-off
Every weld is checked against the standard before it leaves. Then it goes back to work.
The operator
One welder. One standard. No queue.
Red Desert Metal Solutions is run by Andrew Petersen, a welder who spent over two years in precision aerospace fabrication — work where tolerances live in the thousandths and every bead has to earn a sign-off.
He brought that discipline back to Southern Utah and pointed it at the machines this county actually runs on: excavators, trailers, gates, and the structural steel that holds working operations together.
This is a young shop, and that's the advantage. Your job isn't ticket #400 in somebody's queue — it's the job. The person who quotes it welds it, inspects it, and answers for it.
A bad bead doesn't fly.
House rule № 1 — carried over from the aerospace floor.
Get in touch
Open a job ticket.
Broken machine, trailer build, one-off part — send the details, get a straight answer. Photos speed everything up.
Shop hours
MON–FRI 7:00A–6:00P
SAT 8:00A–2:00P
Base of operations
St. George, Utah
Serving all of Washington County & Southern Utah.
Job ticket — quote request
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