Welding Assembly and Fabrication

alright guys this is a welding Department right here and you can see all these curtains to protect people's eyes as they go by we're gonna step in here and Jack is welding up the log on so they do contract manufacturing here - you guys have seen the log ox on my youtube channel and this is where they're made awesome that's a big pile of logs right there what I think really rings true about Swisher and the reason that we're here doing our American manufacturing video at Swisher is that most of the products they make are handmade just totally handmade so real American workers building real American products out of real American steel it just doesn't get any better than this guys guys this is Jack Jack is one of the welders that's been here the longest its wishes how long you've been here Felisa years 27 years can you imagine people just don't stay in places for 27 years anymore you know maybe 27 months you know it now jack says he has a cattle operation I'm a head of cattle you run it normally about 150 on the how many acres hundred fifty acres awesome good stuff this leads us into our next visit we're going to Greg Judy's place pretty cool you're building a log ox today right Jim oh the log ox is a four in one forestry tool thanks man you guys take that glove up we're working in all these individual stations inside these curtains are where they do the hand welding now we're going to go back here to where the programmer is actually programming a robot and they have a robot welder that's gonna put together a few little pieces for us this is Mastin Mastan is a weld supervisor you've been here for how many years almost 15 then almost 18 years now in your hand here you have the controller for the robot welder yes right and the robot welder is manned by person so in other words it doesn't take robots aren't taking the jobs no okay gotcha cool so that just helps with workflow here it helps you get things done faster and it does intricate details to I guess a more standard spec is that right yes it does cool so we're gonna watch it work good to meet you man good to meet you