CANADIAN IRON

Heavy Equipment Repair, Welding, & Fabrication

Serving Simcoe County, ON — heavy equipment repair, welding, and custom fabrication for buckets, blades, attachments, hydraulic cylinders, undercarriages, and more. Fabrication to engineered drawings available.

Heavy equipment repair, Caterpillar 390 slab bucket cutting edge removal.

HEAVY EQUIPMENT SERVICES

Industries served: Construction, Aggregate/Quarry, Mining (Underground & Surface), Forestry, Municipal/Public Works, Utilities, Recycling/Waste/Landfill.

Manufacturing, Material Handling (large forklifts, loaders, industrial attachments), Purpose-Built Machinery & Prototype Builds, and other heavy equipment applications.

Heavy equipment repair, Caterpillar 349 ditching bucket skin replacement.

Fabricating & Welding

  • Repair welding & fabrication: Heavy construction and industrial equipment

  • Attachment repair & reinforcement: Buckets, blades, couplers, attachments, and more

  • Weld build-up & wear repair

  • Crack repair & structural reinforcement

  • Parts fabrication: Built as needed

  • Custom fabrication: Built to your drawings

  • CWB certified welding: GMAW (MIG), SMAW (Stick), FCAW (Flux Core)

Machining tools, large 2 1/2-inch tap, die, and countersink on a machining table.

Machining

  • Line boring & machining: Heavy equipment repair

  • Pin and bore repair

  • Bushing installation/replacement

  • Shaft repair: Build-up and re-machining

  • Custom machining work: As needed for repairs

Stephens Equipment logo with an excavator.

Coordinated Mechanical Repair

  • Coordinated mechanical repair & rebuild work: Stephens Equipment + Canadian Iron

  • One point of contact: Reach out and we’ll review what’s needed and let you know if we can help

  • Team-based troubleshooting & repairs: We work together on jobs that require mechanical diagnostics/repair and welding/fabrication

  • Rebuild work (examples): Final drive builds, undercarriage rebuilds, and large hydraulic cylinder rebuilds and repairs

  • Coordinated roles: Stephens Equipment leads diagnostics and mechanical repair (30+ years), and Canadian Iron leads welding and fabrication, working together as needed from planning through job completion

  • Independent companies: Stephens Equipment is an independent company and is not owned or operated by Canadian Iron

Canadian Iron logo, metal maple leaf with an anvil cutout welded to a bent cylinder rod post.

Canadian Iron is CWB Certified

CWB Certification is overseen by the Canadian Welding Bureau and confirms that Canadian Iron meets strict CSA W47.1 requirements. This certification helps ensure high-quality work and regulatory compliance for structural steel, infrastructure, and manufacturing.

With 20+ years in the welding and fabrication industry, Canadian Iron specializes in heavy equipment repair and industrial custom fabrication. Our experience includes heavy industrial and underground mining equipment and custom purpose-built machinery. We build, rebuild, and repair heavy equipment components and attachments.

Canadian Iron’s heavy equipment work includes bucket, blade, and attachment repair and reinforcement; crack repair and structural reinforcement; wear rebuilds; and component fabrication as needed.

When required, we also provide machining-related work such as pin and bore work and bushing work.

For planned work, we provide custom fabrication built to engineered drawings and specifications.

CWB certification logo, CSA W47.1.
Completed heavy equipment repair, Caterpillar 330 bucket with replacement skin and wear strips.
Completed heavy equipment repair, bucket ear replacement with modifications.
Completed heavy equipment repair, replacement cutting edge and adapters.
Completed heavy equipment repair, Caterpillar D5 blade reskin.
Completed heavy equipment repair, Caterpillar D6 blade bearing replacement.
Completed heavy equipment repair, Caterpillar D6 C-frame blade mount bearing replacement.
Heavy equipment repair, old and new hydraulic cylinder rod comparison for replacement.
Heavy equipment repair, excavator hydraulic cylinder rebuild in progress.
Heavy equipment repair, hydraulic cylinder crack weld repair in progress.
Heavy equipment repair, tilt bucket attachment replacement bushings and pins in progress.
Heavy equipment repair, line boring on an excavator packer attachment in progress.
Heavy equipment repair machining, pin weld build-up in progress, ready for machining.

Request Service Form

  • If your job needs both mechanical work and welding/fabrication: Let us know—we’ll review what’s needed and let you know if we can help

  • For repair requests: Please include your name, location, what heavy equipment or attachment needs repair, and a short description of the issue

  • Please attach multiple photos: Overall and close-up

  • Based in Simcoe County, ON: Travel may be available beyond Simcoe County for construction and industrial work

  • Scheduling: We prioritize ongoing clients, and all work is scheduled based on availability

  • If a job is waiting on parts or approval: We may proceed with other scheduled work in the meantime

  • Deposits: Depending on scope and materials required, a deposit may be required before work begins