I started my mobile welding business in December, and things are starting to pick up for me this month. I watch your videos religiously. Forever grateful for all the bomb-ass content you throw our way. Thanks man!
How is your business going now? And did you do similar work before you went to welding school? I would appreciate any info you can give as I am thinking about starting welding school soon
honestly we need more people too spread the word and knowledge like your doing! Learn from others mistakes and grow from those, stop letting these big corporations take advantage of the people trying too come up and holding all the ins and outs of how business works. Thank you my friend!
You know how some people build their way up, and then pull the ladder behind them? you're the opposite of that. you figure shit out, and spell it out for the people starting out. You're a good dude. Thanks for posting!
No BS, straight to the point, and informative. You got yourself a new follower! I’m currently a welding contractor myself and been having some hiccups about how to contract out to other welders and finding more work. You answered my questions and can’t wait to find out more with what you have to share. Thank you!
I love your no bs no sugar lay out the sauce demeanour, still not enough hours on the gun or stick to consider striking out, dont even think full time melting would b my bag, but I have got a lot of use full tips, and maybe even just enjoy the entertainment value of your vids, ty Anthony
I remember when you replaced that trailer jack you said "I'm not a painter I'm a welder, you wouldn't have a painter weld do your welding" 😆 Not hating just saying I pay attention 😆
Working with others is how we can take on bigger projects, but it is a double edge sword if the other person sucks and you didn't know it. Together we can build anything with the right dude's.
Spot on information yet again. Being able to subcontract for a few companies, and having some people you can trust to sub out. And both of those things are pretty hard to come by. But the truly valuable thing is other people that on paper are “competition” but in real life the other entrepreneurs are always stepping out to help the other entrepreneurs.
Well said! You are definitely not an idiot! Great delivery on topics I never would even consider knowing about. I don’t think like that so I still have to punch the clock for the man! Good on ya Meltin Metal!
Great video and fantastic advice. Your videos really help to understand the game and running a business there’s all ways something to learn and all ways great to hear advice from someone who’s been done and learned. Massive thanks 🙏🏻 👍👍👍
I love these business tip videos.. after all, it’s more of the side people don’t see or understand, so you not sugarcoating anything while shedding light on this angle of it is invaluable.
Once again, amazing information! Can you do a video about slag jumping and how dangerous it is? I had a piece hit me in my eye thank god I had my glasses on.
Can you make a video about traveling for work? Maybe how often you have to leave home state to stay busy? Love the content brody. You start these videos off like every get rich quick scheme but only drop actual knowledge and useful real world, real field POV of the trade.
So...concrete guy here in Northern Michigan. Poured walls. Vankalker construction, been with this guy for more than ten years. So, you get a job...sub it out...get paid just for handling the job...never had to pick up a tool...just a phone. It's called "middle man" .... I like it. I however dislike dealing with the "middle man" as it usually means more money. 😁
LLC takes 10 minutes. Don’t be fooled by services that will do it for you. Just look for your state sponsored site (it will be a .gov usually) and register there. I’ve had a few different company’s since then. I shop rates every year
So do you get the full payment before hand from the customer and then give the person you are contracting to do it, a percentage of the money ? And vise versa say You wanted me to go weld something for you would you have already been fully paid by the customer and pay me a percentage of it? And if you finance doesn’t that mean you have to pay them ? Like for “financing supplies” is that in form of a business loan type deal ?
If you want to go into business, a good portion of the decisions you make will be tax driven. BEFORE you into business learn a lot about how taxes and business work. Do you want to incorporate? If you incorporate do you want a C corp, S corp or an LLC? What business purchases are tax deductible and which are not. A good portion of what you need to do as a business person is keeping the money you worked so hard to earn. If you let it all the money you earn fly out of your hands what good is it go into business yourself? In fact BEFORE you learn to weld, sit down with someone that you trust and ask them all the tax questions you might have. Might be worth a $100 for an hour consult with an expert.
Rad video but the part of shitty welds being out in the wild, it just hurts my soul. Iam a NDT guy and everything I look at is code stuff. So I weld for funzies and I hold my self to code standards as well. I also nerd the fuck out on the stuff as well. Thats why iam trying to be a cwi. But you are right, a lot of welds hold. But dude, some hand rails are scary as fuck. Some buildings are as well. I been to some chemical plants that had no idea what a weld procedure was 😅.
That was good - pushing the camera over at the end, I enjoyed that. Most of these guys on job-sites are morons, well it was 15 years ago in Canada, Ontario. What they were was experts in was excuses A-#1, they had a rolodex of them. Wow is all I say about that. All wanting to play play Big-Man, I'm in charge They all wanted to be someone like you! What they were was an employee driving a welding rig around, but they behaved like they was the owner operator, a contractor. Plus they were given titles by the owner A couple of the guy's were good, decent. They would lift a 10 ton door on hinges, mill at quarry with a 5 1/2 ton chain come along, than they unhook at the top and than than flip the hook around, while the door was at the top balanced on its own weight on the hinges, with a safety chain of 2- 1/2 tons hooked up while the flipped the hook, The guy reached up unhooked from the lifting eye, dropped the chain and tapped the door with hook and that door come over, grabbed the guys shoulder on the way down and folded him into the grating, took that 2 1/2 ton safety chain hook and pulled it straight and flat. Only saving grace was the soft mud under his feet and limit of the door against the unit on the hinges. Young guy married with children too all broken up, probability never work again, money, greed at play, cutting corners off for a big pay day. for the price of installing a hydraulic system, that would have done the job in a couple of minutes, very safely. The wooden shoe people. Nope for me! bye see ya. Now I'm going to build my own line of equipment for the hobbyist out of stainless for stainless, non furious stuff, and the arts and crafts, less grinding and prepping, painting etc.. like for steel. Have no interest for doing steel anymore at my age. Another niche that's lacking, that's cleaner, tig work that's it, just for some pocket money keep it light and simple, throw the parts in to a tumbler or two on a timer. I'm in no rush so.. make a nice enclosure for it on some rubber with some sound proofing keep the noise level down, decent. At my age, work smarter not harder and cleaner..
He buys, and "resells" them for a markup due to him fronting the money for the materials to do the job. Because some places want COD and guys first starting in the game don't always have the liquid cash for materials. he fronts the cash and makes a little extra on the back end from doing so
I started my mobile welding business in December, and things are starting to pick up for me this month. I watch your videos religiously. Forever grateful for all the bomb-ass content you throw our way. Thanks man!
That is awesome! You Got it!
How is your business going now? And did you do similar work before you went to welding school? I would appreciate any info you can give as I am thinking about starting welding school soon
Good advice. Even though your a welder you can’t ever stop grinding!!!
Pun intended
@@saintbronze2 that’s the truth…
90% grind
10% sleep
Grinder & paint makes me the welder I aint.
honestly we need more people too spread the word and knowledge like your doing! Learn from others mistakes and grow from those, stop letting these big corporations take advantage of the people trying too come up and holding all the ins and outs of how business works. Thank you my friend!
You know how some people build their way up, and then pull the ladder behind them? you're the opposite of that. you figure shit out, and spell it out for the people starting out. You're a good dude. Thanks for posting!
No BS, straight to the point, and informative. You got yourself a new follower! I’m currently a welding contractor myself and been having some hiccups about how to contract out to other welders and finding more work. You answered my questions and can’t wait to find out more with what you have to share. Thank you!
I love your no bs no sugar lay out the sauce demeanour, still not enough hours on the gun or stick to consider striking out, dont even think full time melting would b my bag, but I have got a lot of use full tips, and maybe even just enjoy the entertainment value of your vids, ty Anthony
As a fellow mobile welder Finding good people to sub out work to is hard. Especially when your name is on their work.
Anthony you give me a little confidence saying 99.9% of welds are 💩 😂
That subscribe in the first 20 seconds killed me!! LOL😂
Glad you like iy
I remember when you replaced that trailer jack you said "I'm not a painter I'm a welder, you wouldn't have a painter weld do your welding" 😆 Not hating just saying I pay attention 😆
That’s funny
Same 😂 lol
Thanks for all the knowledge
Lol “how does a moron” what a start to the video humble af
video on buying materials and consumables and what kind jobs need what kind of tools?..?
Man After my own heart. Great stuff man I just Subscribed. Have an awesome day
Thanks for the sub!
Did my first mobile job yesterday. You motivated me to get out there. Thank you
awesome!
Working with others is how we can take on bigger projects, but it is a double edge sword if the other person sucks and you didn't know it. Together we can build anything with the right dude's.
Spot on information yet again.
Being able to subcontract for a few companies, and having some people you can trust to sub out.
And both of those things are pretty hard to come by.
But the truly valuable thing is other people that on paper are “competition” but in real life the other entrepreneurs are always stepping out to help the other entrepreneurs.
Where all in the struggle. And there’s more than enough for all of us
Keep earning and burning brotha !
Well said! You are definitely not an idiot! Great delivery on topics I never would even consider knowing about. I don’t think like that so I still have to punch the clock for the man! Good on ya Meltin Metal!
You are the realest out here sir! 👨🏾🏭💯
Well said. Well done. Keep the videos coming. Both your subscribers and yearly income will quadruple.
Can't wait to see that beautiful new truck
Not exactly what I came here for but I can respect this guys because he gets to the point
Great video and fantastic advice. Your videos really help to understand the game and running a business there’s all ways something to learn and all ways great to hear advice from someone who’s been done and learned. Massive thanks 🙏🏻 👍👍👍
these videos on Sunday are really good you should make this a regular thing business Sunday
I love these business tip videos.. after all, it’s more of the side people don’t see or understand, so you not sugarcoating anything while shedding light on this angle of it is invaluable.
Hope they help!
Videos always appreciated man keeping it real! I learn from all your videos
Best video yet!
Thanks for the great vids.
Thanks Anthony for laying the sauce(knowledge)
I’m hooked lol I’ve watched every video now in a few weeks!!! I NEEEED MORE!!! Love from the UK, keep up the good work !
More to come!
Thank you for your experienced information brother. Much appreciated. Here we go welding world!
Once again, amazing information! Can you do a video about slag jumping and how dangerous it is? I had a piece hit me in my eye thank god I had my glasses on.
definitely keep eye wash near!!
Thank you Anthony great info always
Can you make a video about traveling for work? Maybe how often you have to leave home state to stay busy? Love the content brody. You start these videos off like every get rich quick scheme but only drop actual knowledge and useful real world, real field POV of the trade.
🤑🤑🤑 video is money. Godspeed brother. I’ll be catching up soon.
So...concrete guy here in Northern Michigan. Poured walls. Vankalker construction, been with this guy for more than ten years. So, you get a job...sub it out...get paid just for handling the job...never had to pick up a tool...just a phone. It's called "middle man" .... I like it. I however dislike dealing with the "middle man" as it usually means more money. 😁
Sometimes your on both sides of the fence
Good quality video Anthony!
git er done Anthony......happy Easter Buddy
You too Paul!
Love the advice, in a welding shop now but looking to break out. Truly some real facts with how things need to be done.
Glad to help
No worries, your videos are inspiring to go out and get it done.
Empire is a long stretch
Welding has been a cash cow for me not much competition in my area. #welditinthedirtfieldtrashstreightoutthetrailerpark!!!
Greatest outro move ever 😆
What INS do you use? How much should one be covered for? Are you an LLC? If so, how was that process?
LLC takes 10 minutes. Don’t be fooled by services that will do it for you. Just look for your state sponsored site (it will be a .gov usually) and register there. I’ve had a few different company’s since then. I shop rates every year
What is Texas TIG used for?
Good job dude. Man after my own heart. I would paint for my hourly wage as well. Show me the money
Subscribed
Thanks brother!
Well said bud
Cheers from Nova Scotia
cheers!
So do you get the full payment before hand from the customer and then give the person you are contracting to do it, a percentage of the money ? And vise versa say
You wanted me to go weld something for you would you have already been fully paid by the customer and pay me a percentage of it?
And if you finance doesn’t that mean you have to pay them ? Like for “financing supplies” is that in form of a business loan type deal ?
If you want to go into business, a good portion of the decisions you make will be tax driven. BEFORE you into business learn a lot about how taxes and business work. Do you want to incorporate? If you incorporate do you want a C corp, S corp or an LLC? What business purchases are tax deductible and which are not. A good portion of what you need to do as a business person is keeping the money you worked so hard to earn. If you let it all the money you earn fly out of your hands what good is it go into business yourself? In fact BEFORE you learn to weld, sit down with someone that you trust and ask them all the tax questions you might have. Might be worth a $100 for an hour consult with an expert.
Great advice for anyone looking!
I just ask my CPA
love your work,but what's with the sunglasses?
He’s got the SAUCE
Awesome video Anthony!
💯 percent! Great advice!
You are a legend
How much is your liability insurance, approximately, for your area and situation?
Everyone needs Hermineo in their life.
100% I love him like a brother
Rad video but the part of shitty welds being out in the wild, it just hurts my soul.
Iam a NDT guy and everything I look at is code stuff. So I weld for funzies and I hold my self to code standards as well.
I also nerd the fuck out on the stuff as well. Thats why iam trying to be a cwi.
But you are right, a lot of welds hold. But dude, some hand rails are scary as fuck. Some buildings are as well. I been to some chemical plants that had no idea what a weld procedure was 😅.
the truth is 99% of welds have no code
Very practical advice about subcontractors. Especially that they are not employees. - huge tax penalties for doing this wrong.
He got the sauce
Well said Anthony
Your 300k video I called bullshit on.. but fair fucking play mate, what a video that was and bang on the money
Great info sir
Thanks
Speaking facts my dude. Keep up the good work. 💯
Good advice 👍
Ha! Good info
Can we get back to welding?
watch my last video man
wise wisdom
Do you need a contractors license to work how you do always wondered?
no I get subbed on permitted jobs, they hold the license
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Bro I gotta real ass Q you say 150k in pocket so are you saying aprox 2x that in revenue?
Bc I’ve had ALOT of people tell me set 50% aside to pay people every year
give or take
Sou brasileiro e estou iniciando meu negócio aqui no Brasil a partir das lições que aprendi com você.
😎👍
Take away sub contracts and find a weekend warrior that knows what he's doing then tell him the job and find out his availability
I hear yuh man but lately I been getting customer say 150$ to much for weld job that takes 2 hrs to do 🥴
could be your area could be a cheap sob
@@MeltinMetalAnthony I hear you brotha yea what can we do just gotta push forward keep burnin be safe out there
That was good - pushing the camera over at the end, I enjoyed that. Most of these guys on job-sites are morons, well it was 15 years ago in Canada, Ontario. What they were was experts in was excuses A-#1, they had a rolodex of them. Wow is all I say about that. All wanting to play play Big-Man, I'm in charge They all wanted to be someone like you! What they were was an employee driving a welding rig around, but they behaved like they was the owner operator, a contractor. Plus they were given titles by the owner A couple of the guy's were good, decent.
They would lift a 10 ton door on hinges, mill at quarry with a 5 1/2 ton chain come along, than they unhook at the top and than than flip the hook around, while the door was at the top balanced on its own weight on the hinges, with a safety chain of 2- 1/2 tons hooked up while the flipped the hook, The guy reached up unhooked from the lifting eye, dropped the chain and tapped the door with hook and that door come over, grabbed the guys shoulder on the way down and folded him into the grating, took that 2 1/2 ton safety chain hook and pulled it straight and flat. Only saving grace was the soft mud under his feet and limit of the door against the unit on the hinges. Young guy married with children too all broken up, probability never work again, money, greed at play, cutting corners off for a big pay day. for the price of installing a hydraulic system, that would have done the job in a couple of minutes, very safely. The wooden shoe people.
Nope for me! bye see ya. Now I'm going to build my own line of equipment for the hobbyist out of stainless for stainless, non furious stuff, and the arts and crafts, less grinding and prepping, painting etc.. like for steel. Have no interest for doing steel anymore at my age. Another niche that's lacking, that's cleaner, tig work that's it, just for some pocket money keep it light and simple, throw the parts in to a tumbler or two on a timer. I'm in no rush so.. make a nice enclosure for it on some rubber with some sound proofing keep the noise level down, decent. At my age, work smarter not harder and cleaner..
What you mean you “finance the materials “ ?
He buys, and "resells" them for a markup due to him fronting the money for the materials to do the job. Because some places want COD and guys first starting in the game don't always have the liquid cash for materials. he fronts the cash and makes a little extra on the back end from doing so
@@ajcz ohhhh ok gotcha
$150,000 NET or GROSS?
you have to watch the complete fuckin picture
Good morning!
1:27 breaking bad?
Earmuffs children
Fazo ant with more knowledge 😮💨
You’re beautiful Wilton Vice is Disgusting ..what a disgrace ,I remember when that thing was brand new
💪😎🤌🤌
Oh I don't care how I make it.
subscrive
I found your UA-cam because I have your F800 saved on my FB marketplace. Your vids are 10/10, bud! Crazy that I live down the road from ya. 😂🤌🤌
buy it lmao
I fuckin want to so goddamn bad. Lmao I can pick up and weld so much shit with that rig 😂