Re: OT/ Diesel mechanic or machinist

Posted by NC Wayne on February 15, 2006 at 22:04:05 from (64.12.116.74):

In Reply to: OT/ Diesel mechanic or machinist posted by FarmallInternational22 on February 15, 2006 at 19:00:58:

As indepependents Dad and I do both mechanic work and machine work. We're more geared toward the mechanic side of things but working on older equipment lends itself to needing both sets of skills. We have a small machine shop that we use for things like making bushings, pins, and other items that are no longer available through the OEM's, etc. We also do portable/field align boring work. We're about the only ones in the area that will go out in the field, tear a machine down, build up and align bore a set of holes/ or bore them and then make and install bushings, and then reassemble the machine. With us it's a turn key job from start to finish not one guy to do the mechanic stuff and another to do the machine work. This makes things go alot smoother when your working behind yourself and not somebody you don't know. You have to have a pretty good knowledge of machining to do the boring work as well as to be able to go back to the shop and machine out a bushing, make a special jig to do a specific job, etc. As for choosing one job over the other, I couldn't do it because I like both. There will always be a call for both professions. If your a good mechanic there'll always be a machine breaking and somebody needing work done. If your a good machinist there are getting to be a lack of job shops that have guys with the knowledge to be repair machinists. There are so many shops out there with CNC machines that are more than willing to make you 10000 parts but don't have any desire to take in piece work. If you get into machining on the repair side then combine some welding in with your courses. Heck, do that regardless because it's another skill you'll need for either profession. In the end do whatever you feel most comfortable with. Every profession will have good and bad days, that's a given. If at the end of the day, if all those headachs seem worth it because you truely enjoy what your doing, that's all that matters.

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