Our Story
The company was started 15 years ago by another local, Peter Wilkinson, who on the property “Rose Valley” decided to go out and buy himself a cut off saw and welder, and open a business. Like everything good, it grew just a little big for a small shed operation and required new premises to be able to continue to grow. Peter moved into Webb Place, Armidale approx.13 years ago, at which point he found a young keen employee named Phil Macfarlane. Phil was eager to get into business for himself and saw this business as a great opportunity to “drought proof” himself from the life he knew, growing up a farmer’s son.
When Phil began with the company, it was with a total of two employees including Phil, and the main item on the production line in those days was the farm gate. The company now has 18 employees including Phil, bigger premises, and it incorporates another business – ShedBoss Armidale – which is a fantastic subsidiary to the structural side of the business.
We have an item list that includes many types of agricultural products; it is very rare these days to make a gate (even though we all still enjoy making them) but we do still make gates – good ones too. We now have a team that has a wealth of experience in many styles of metalwork and also structural steel design, fabrication and erection.
Our Strategy
We are a custom metal fabrication company – that means that anything you can imagine or draw, we can make out of metal. If you have something broken that’s made from metal, any metal, we can generally repair it. If you have an idea, we have a team of experience and some real out of the box thinkers who would love to help you turn it into a reality.
We have a range of agricultural products, stock feeders, panels, gates and stay systems.
Full sheet metal shop service, including the fabrication of Alloy, Stainless and Mild Steel products. Fabrication of ute trays, ladder racks, canopies, and tool boxes.
Steel processing, including band saw, shear and punch, drilling and bending/rolling pipe and RHS. Plasma & oxy cutting.
In the past five years we have had to install structural steel and viewing platforms on to the side of the gorge in the National Parks, full Stainless Steel kitchens, the entire structural steel components for houses, we have built commercial premises, residential garages, farm sheds, carports, patios. Being a custom metal shop, we are very fortunate in that we have a very broad variety of work brought to us for repair or even to provide a solution from concept to creation if required. As far as unusual goes, we really do have a long list, but how about some extremes as an example: in that same period we were involved with the latest cutting edge technology in an electric car and in the same year we had to research and replicate the front bumper of a early 1900’s vintage car.
