Custom Fabrication

Deck Equipment Support Skid — Custom Fabrication

A custom fabricated structural support skid for marine deck equipment — an A36 plate-and-structural-shape weldment, built to the vessel operator's layout drawing rather than forged, since the part's function is structural support rather than a load path needing forged grain flow.

Welder in full protective gear welding a structural steel beam assembly, bright arc and rising smoke, face fully covered by welding helmet

The project

Not every job calls for a forging — a deck equipment support skid is a structural weldment problem, built from plate and structural shapes cut and welded to the vessel operator's layout drawing, with mounting provisions for the equipment it supports and lifting points sized to the skid's own loaded weight. The fabrication scope included full weld procedure qualification documentation and visual plus magnetic-particle inspection of all structural welds before the skid shipped for installation.

The skid was hot-dip galvanized after fabrication per the marine customer’s corrosion-protection specification, with all structural welds inspected and documented prior to the galvanizing step.