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Valhalla Welding & Fabrication is Caleb Erickson’s shop in Monmouth. Tested and certified for sanitary stainless work on dairies, breweries, wineries and distilleries. On the road for farm, equipment and trailer repair across the valley, around the clock when something goes down. In the shop building gates, railings, truck beds and the one-off pieces nobody else wants to make.
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Inside a milk line, a brewhouse or a wine tank, the weld is a surface the product touches on every run. One pit, skip or unpurged root is a place bacteria can live through a clean-in-place cycle, and the inspector who finds it can fail the line and dump the tank. That is why sanitary welding is tested separately and why few welders take the test. Caleb did, and passed.
Argon back-purged, full-penetration TIG on 304 and 316L stainless, built to 3-A and AWS D18.1 acceptance criteria and left unpolished so your inspector can scope it. Dairies today, with room on the calendar for the breweries, wineries and distilleries of the Willamette Valley.
Most calls are one of these four. The rest is the “can you weld this?” that keeps a one-man shop interesting, and the answer is almost always yes.
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The rig comes to the farm, the plant, the job site or the driveway. Equipment down at 5 a.m., a gate hanging off its hinge, a trailer that has to roll tomorrow. After-hours and emergency calls at an after-hours rate, and a straight answer on the phone about whether it can be fixed where it sits.
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Headlocks, feed barriers, gates and panels, hay and tillage equipment, hitches, buckets and the thing that broke in the middle of harvest. Caleb grew up on a farm and fixes it like it is his own, then gets out of your way.
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Trailers, truck beds and service bodies, gates and railings, frames, stands, brackets and aluminum boxes. Steel, stainless or aluminum, MIG or TIG, fit up on a fixture table so it comes out square and stays that way. Bring a sketch, a photo or the broken original.
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Driveway gates, garden gates, handrails, fireboxes, furniture, the broken thing in the garage. Yes, that too. No job is too small to text a photo about, and most small repairs are done the same week.
Most welders pick a lane. Caleb runs all three because the valley’s farms, plants and driveways do not care which one is convenient.
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Structural and mild steel for gates, trailers, frames, equipment repair and anything that has to carry a load. MIG for production, TIG where it shows.
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Sanitary tube and fittings for dairies and beverage plants, plus food-grade equipment, tanks, carts and handrails. TIG, back-purged where product touches it.
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Boat hulls and transoms, truck service bodies, tool boxes, ramps, frames and the cracked casting nobody else will touch. TIG for the clean work, MIG for the big stuff.
Boats, truck bodies, boxes, rampsReal jobs, photographed by the guy who welded them. The galleries have the rest.
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Sanitary stainless work has its own page, and the three galleries are sorted by job type.
Caleb is usually under a hood, so a text with a photo gets answered faster than a voicemail.
Send a picture of what broke or a sketch of what you want, with a rough size and where it is. The form on this page goes straight to Caleb’s phone.
Not a call center. He tells you whether it is a shop job or a mobile job, what metal and process it needs, and roughly what it will take.
A written quote you sign on your phone. Fabrication jobs that need material take a deposit up front, repairs usually do not. Then he shows up when he said he would.
Call instead of texting. After-hours and emergency calls are available at an after-hours rate, and a dairy that cannot ship milk or a trailer that has to leave in the morning is exactly what that is for.