Tinker Fabrication

09/28/2022

06/09/2022

DIY special for the month of June! 40X100X16 red iron, weld together, metal building kits. Readily available!!!
In house financing and nationwide shipping is available.

Square tubing and truss style building kits are only $46,490!

I-beam column and rafter building kits are fully engineer-able and only $51,990!

Both styles of building kits have two overhead door openings and one walkthrough door opening with 26 gauge panels that carry a 40 year paint warranty!

Freight, tax, and doors are not included in prices but are available as well as concrete and construction!

Find us on FB Midwest Erecting and Fabrication

03/18/2022

Repaired a couple existing covers along with adding a handrail. Got them powder coated and installed then a quick fix on an iron fence.

10/02/2021

10/02/2021

Custom Steel Egress Window Covers

10/02/2021

09/02/2021

Nick Adams, Jarred Bliss, Darren Redburn
No rest for the wicked when the weather gets hot. Gotta hit it early. Go get that money!!!

08/07/2021

We spent the week in Warrensburg, MO welding up and skinning a monster 80x100 steel building. These buildings are custom fabricated and welded 100 percent onsite using 12” I beam construction. Hit us up for information!!!

06/06/2021

Roughneck Hitch Boys!!

Pretty incredible read I thought ya’ll would enjoy.

THE OIL PATCH WARRIORS OF WORLD WAR II

About seventy-five years ago, a Band of Roughnecks went abroad on a top secret mission into Robin Hood's stomping grounds to punch oil wells to help fuel England's war machines.

It's a story that should make any oilman or woman proud.

The year was 1943 and England was mired in World War II. U-boats attacked supply vessels, choking off badly needed supplies to the island nation. But oil was the commodity they needed the most as they warred with Germany.

A book "The Secret of Sherwood Forest: Oil Production in England During World War II" written by Guy Woodward and Grace Steele Woodward was published in 1973, and tells the obscure story of the American oil men who went to England to bore wells in a top secret mission in March 1943.

England had but one oil field, in Sherwood Forest of all places. Its meager output of 300 barrels a day was literally a drop in the bucket of their requirement of 150,000 barrels a day to fuel their war machines.

Then a top secret plan was devised: to send some Americans and their expertise to assist in developing the field. Oklahoma based Noble Drilling Company, along with Fain-Porter signed a one year contract to drill 100 wells for England, merely for costs and expenses.

42 drillers and roughnecks from Texas and Oklahoma, most in their teens and early twenties volunteered for the mission to go abroad. The hands embarked for England in March 1943 aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth. Four National 50 drilling rigs were loaded onto ships but only three of them made landfall; the N**i U-boats sank one of the rigs een route to the UK.

The Brits' jaws dropped as the Yanks began punching the wells in a week, compared to five to eight weeks for their British counterparts. They worked 12 hour tours, 7 days a week and within a year, the Americans had drilled 106 wells and England oil production shot up from 300 barrels a day to over 300,000

The contract fulfilled, the American oil men departed England in late March 1944. But only 41 hands were on board the return voyage. Herman Douthit, a Texan derrick-hand was killed during the operation. He was laid to rest with full military honors, and remains the only civilian to be buried at The American Military Cemetery in Cambridge.

"The Oil Patch Warrior," a seven foot bronze statue of a roughneck holding a four foot pipe wrench stands near Nottingham England to honor the American oil men's assistance and sacrifice in the war. A replica was placed in Ardmore Oklahoma in 2001

It is by no means a stretch to state that without the American mission, we might all be speaking German today.

Special thanks to the American Oil and Gas History.

06/03/2021

Squeezed between the rafters for a day’s worth of work today. Looks like it’s going to be another great auditorium for the Maize Schools!

02/26/2021

The rest of it

02/11/2021

The new skid. Well, most of it :-)

01/29/2021

Some assembly required

01/02/2021

We’re available to help in case there’s anybody who might want to armor up before this s**t gets real...

12/29/2020

A little cutting edge replacement for an excavator bucket.

12/14/2020

Rod Burner, dear boss man...

12/13/2020

Zero days without a preventable accident...

11/26/2020

Expanded metal bridge and handrails.