Little River Welding & Hydraulics LLC

Little River Welding & Hydraulics LLC is a welding shop in Little River, SC, offering welding repairs, custom fabrications, and hydraulic needs since 1985. The business provides Mig, Stick, and Heil-Arc Portable Welding Plasma Cutting services, alongside cylinder repair and hose work up to 2 inches and 6000 PSI. It maintains the largest inventory of hydraulic hoses and fittings in the area, including hard-to-find German, British, and Kobelco metrics. Services extend to milling machine, lathe, and Sunnen Honing Machine operations, shape cutting, and custom fabrication for trailers, fences, hitches, docks, and heavy equipment repair.

Jeff Schmalfeldt opened the shop in 1985 in a small 20 by 25 foot space, expanding to 2000 square feet in 1989 and adding another 5000 square feet in 2001. Little River Welding performs steel, aluminum, and stainless fabrications to customer specs. The facility features large hydraulic shears, iron workers, drill presses, milling machines, lathes, steel rollers, benders, and welders. A hose crimping machine handles up to 2.5 inch diameter hoses. The shop is a D.O.T. Federal inspection shop for large over-the-road vehicles and services heavy equipment including bulldozers, track hoes, and dump trucks. It handles simple residential projects to full industrial fabrication of all sizes and can come to the customer if a job is too big to bring to the shop. The business repacks, reseals, and re-torques up to Hitachi 650 size cylinders.

Jeff went to school for aircraft mechanics and holds an FAA license in aviation repairs, covering power plant, jet engine repairs, and the entire airframe superstructure. He served as a volunteer firefighter from 1986 through March 2007, holding titles of Captain, Assistant Chief, and Chief for over 17 years. Jeff incorporates his father’s principle of doing things the right way into his business practice, aiming to do good work in a timely manner at a reasonable price. The shop stands behind its work and continues to serve the public in the shop and with the fire department.

Little River Welding & Hydraulics LLC is known for its large selection of hydraulic hoses and fittings, with some customers traveling two hours for larger hydraulic hose needs. The business operates Monday through Friday from 7:00 AM to 4:00 PM. It can be reached at (843) 249-8548 or by fax at (843) 280-4141.

Little River Welding & Hydraulics LLC combines decades of hands-on expertise in welding and hydraulics with a commitment to quality craftsmanship, serving as a reliable resource for industrial and residential needs in Little River.

Located on Highway 17 in Little River, the shop sits about a fifth of a mile from US Highway 17 and the Harbour Front Villas neighborhood. It is also within a quarter mile of the Little River Yacht Club and Coquina Harbour.

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