Metal Fabrication in Des Moines, IA — Custom Steel, Aluminum & Repair

Des Moines has plenty of production shops that run parts by the hundred to a print. What the metro is short on is a shop that will build the one thing you actually need — the custom bracket, the repaired frame, the odd fabrication nobody else wants to quote. That’s us. Ames Hydraulics does metal fabrication Des Moines businesses, farms, and contractors rely on, just up Highway 35/69 from the metro, with free pickup and delivery across the Des Moines area.

Serving the Whole Des Moines Metro

We’re a short drive north of Des Moines, and the metro sits well inside our free pickup radius — West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Johnston, Grimes, Waukee, Clive, Altoona, and downtown. For a lot of DSM operations that’s the practical win: a real fabrication and repair shop that comes and gets the work, does it right, and brings it back, instead of a production house that wants a purchase order and a run of 500. Whether it’s a business in the industrial parks off Delaware or a farm on the metro’s edge, the metal fabrication Des Moines work lands here and turns around fast.

What We Fabricate and Repair

• Custom builds — brackets, frames, mounts, guards, railings, stairs, and the one-off parts that don’t exist in any catalog
• Repair welding — cracked equipment, broken frames, torn-off mounts, in steel, aluminum, and stainless
• Truck and trailer fabrication — flatbeds, tool boxes, headache racks, and hitch work
• Structural steel repair — beams, columns, and the heavy sections light shops can’t run
• Machining integration — fabricated repairs brought back to dimension in our machine shop, which is what makes a repair a fix instead of a patch

Why an Ames Shop for Des Moines Work

Because capability travels better than convenience. Our floor pairs fabrication with a full hydraulic shop and a machine shop, so a job that would bounce between three DSM vendors gets done in one building — the cracked part welded, machined true, and the hydraulic system it’s attached to fixed in the same visit. Add honest quoting, real turnaround, and the free metro pickup, and the thirty-minute distance stops mattering. That’s the case for choosing this shop for metal fabrication Des Moines jobs over the nearest sign that says “welding.”

Get a Quote

Text photos of what you need built or fixed to 515-292-2599 and we’ll give you a straight quote — and tell you honestly when buying the part beats building it. Free pickup and delivery across the Des Moines metro. Shop at 210 Freel Dr in Ames, open Monday through Friday, 7AM to 5PM. The same fabrication we do for Ames, brought to Des Moines.

What Metro Businesses Bring Us

The metal fabrication Des Moines work that lands here is the work that doesn’t fit a production shop’s model: a distribution center that needs a custom guard built and installed, a contractor with a cracked attachment, a manufacturer whose obsolete part has to be fabricated from a broken sample, an apartment developer needing railings and stairs, a farm on the metro’s edge with a hopper to build. We handle the design-and-build together, so you’re not hiring an engineer and a shop separately — you send a photo or a sketch, and it comes back as a finished, installed part.

Common Des Moines Fabrication Questions

Do you deliver to the metro? Yes — free pickup and delivery across West Des Moines, Ankeny, Urbandale, Johnston, Grimes, Waukee, Clive, and Altoona. Is the drive from Ames a problem for turnaround? No — we batch metro pickups and most fabrication turns in days, not weeks. Steel, aluminum, or stainless? All three, matched to the job. Can you install, not just build? For many jobs yes; on-site work runs across the metro. Will you quote a small job? Gladly — the small custom job is exactly what production shops turn away and we welcome. Text photos to 515-292-2599 for metal fabrication Des Moines pricing.