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Custom Farm Equipment
Hoppers, frames, toolbars, and one-off implements built in the shop and painted to last in Salinas Valley dirt. If the catalog does not make it, we will.
King City, California · Est. 1962
Conatser
Welding + Machine
We build custom farm equipment and can fix just about anything.
1962Shop roots in King City
Farm ironCustom equipment, not catalog
On siteWe come to you
Lynn StShop you can drive to
A Salinas Valley machine shop
Built for the valley that works.
Conatser Welding and Machine is the King City shop farmers, ranchers, and builders already know: fabrication, repair, and the kind of custom iron you cannot buy boxed.
The Facebook page says it plain — welding and machine shop for fabrication and repair needs. Custom farm equipment. Fix just about anything. Come to 132 Lynn Street, or we load the rig and come to you. Danny Conatser still answers the phone.
The name on the plate is Lee Conatser Fabricators & Repairers, Welding + Machine. Same shop. Same valley. Same promise that if it is steel and it matters, it can be made or mended here.
What the bays are for
The work
MIG, TIG, and arc. Machine work. Paint. Install. From a cracked hitch to a ranch entrance that has to look like it grew out of the hills.
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Fabrication & Repair
Broken hitch, cracked boom, torn platform — we can fix just about anything. Bring it to 132 Lynn Street or we will come to the field.
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Machine Shop
Turning, milling, fitting, and the quiet precision work that keeps farm iron and shop machines honest. A full machine shop beside the weld bays.
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Handrails & Stairs
Clean steel rails for new homes, decks, and commercial stoops. We fabricated the handrails for the Nino Homes development here in King City.
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Ranch Gates & Ornamental Iron
Wagon-wheel fences, arched ranch gates, and custom entries drawn on paper and built in steel. From a pencil sketch to a Pine Mountain driveway.
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Mobile Welding
We can come to you. Field repairs, on-site installs, and the jobs that will not fit on a trailer. King City and the wider Salinas Valley.
Shop reel
The floor, moving
A cut of the same Facebook photographs — farm iron, tractor platforms, ranch gates, and King City rails — cut into a walking tour of the shop.
Jobs you can drive past
On the ground
These are not stock photos. They are the jobs Conatser posted from the shop and the field — hoppers, platforms, rails, and a ranch gate that started as a pencil drawing.
Dual-hopper farm implement
A finished green dual-hopper on a roller deck — shop-built, shop-painted, ready for the valley. This is the work the Facebook page was made to show: farm iron that does not come off a shelf.
Tractor safety platform
A blue steel platform and rail system fitted to a working tractor so a crew can stand, load, and move with something solid underfoot. Built around the machine, not the other way around.
Nino Homes handrails
“Go check out all of our handrails at the new Nino Homes Development in King City.” Black steel, clean lines, set on fresh concrete — the kind of work neighbors actually notice.
Pine Mountain ranch entrance
A timber arch, ornamental wagon-wheel fence, and a driveway that looks like it has always belonged to the hills. Designed on the bench, welded in the shop, installed on the land.
Sketch to steel
Pine Mountain
A hand drawing of spans, posts, and wagon wheels — then the arched gate in the bay, then the timber arch standing in the hills. That is how this shop likes to work.
How a job moves
Four steps
Call or roll in
Tell us what broke, what you need built, or send a photo. 132 Lynn Street, or we come to you.
Measure and draw
Some jobs start as a pencil sketch on the bench — spans, posts, wagon wheels, the way a driveway should feel.
Cut, weld, machine
MIG, TIG, and arc in the bays. Machine work when a part has to fit like it was always there.
Paint, fit, stand it up
Finished iron leaves the shop the way it should: square, painted, and ready for the field or the front steps.
From the Facebook shop floor
The iron
Real jobs from the Conatser page — farm implements, ranch gates, tractor platforms, and the rails on new King City homes.
132 Lynn Street
Bring it in
Call ahead to confirm the shop is open. We come to you, or you come to us.