Z Tarbell Industries

02/24/2026

Old white weldin' truck in the wild!

Is a 30-year old welding truck in a recently un-abandoned, previous jewel of downtown department store building, working on solar power infrastructure the most Rochester thing? Possibly.

The smoke is smokey!

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02/23/2026

BIG ALUMINUM FLAT BED SALT TRUCK THING

HELLO

From this past fall - a big giant salt truck containment deck. Flatbed. Pan. Thing. Designed to keep the salter unit as low as possible - and save weight where possible. It shields the chassis from the salt.
HUGE shout out to Alro Metals here in Rochester for not only sourcing a single 8'x12' sheet of 1/4 aluminum (the only one available in the whole ass-country, at the time!) but doing a solid job at bending it for me.

Future additions for this bed is a locking insert to convert the containment pan into a utility flat bed, for warm months.

🐝

02/20/2026

THINGS THAT NEVER GOT POSTED TO THE SOCIAL PLATFORM OF QUESTIONABLE RETURN, PART 3?

A box! For leaves!
Leaf box to fit existing dump body. Reverse hinging tailgate to accommodate dumping and existing gates, with a reverse facing pressure relief vent up front. This prevents the truck inhaling leaf dust.

Shazam!

🍂🍂🍂

02/18/2026

Excited to be back in Mystic, CT in a couple weeks!
Come hang out! This is a great show, in a great area.

2026 Mystic Knife Show
Northeast Cutlery Collectors Association

March 7-8, 2026
Saturday, 9am - 5pm & Sunday, 9am - 3pm
Mystic Hilton Hotel
20 Coogan Blvd. Mystic, CT 06355

02/17/2026

Super excited to announce I've made a big upgrade to the shop. Joined the 350 amp club! This machine increases my aluminum TIG welding capability to a comfortable 3/4" thick; even thicker depending on the situation.
BIG ZAP ZAPS

01/03/2026

A tasty little railing, on average we do one residential railing per year and we're good with that.
Customer bought a railing kit on TEMU and found it to be garbage, SURPRISE!
Keep it real, keep it local!
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01/01/2026

12/09/2025

In this episode of "Zach forgets to post things to social media"
Realized I never posted the excellent photos that did for me at Spirit this past year. Oop!

This guy is ✨available✨
Art for making dinner with.
A tool that is also pretty.
AN IMPLEMENT FOR COOKIN'.

Biased random pattern welded, extremely German chef profile. Blackwood, vintage micarta, and cupronickel.

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11/04/2025

Annual car exhaust job!
Thump thump!
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10/03/2025

Drove the old girl down to the beautiful Catskills, for the Ashokan Seminar this weekend.

Pig forges came too!

Here to learn about SHORDS

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09/22/2025

Something new coming.
A new forge design, a mini 2-burner.
Long Pig?