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ABOUT PROUD MOBILE WELDING | AUSTIN, TX
Proud Mobile Welding is not a franchise. It is not a sales office that dispatches crews you have never met. It is a mobile welding crew led by master welder Richard Burdick — built around showing up, diagnosing the problem correctly, and doing the work the right way. Every job. Every time.
✓ Owner-Operated — Richard Burdick ✓ 20 Years of Welding Experience ✓ Coleman, TX Roots — Austin, TX Built ✓ Every Project Personally Overseen
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Meet Richard Burdick — The Welder Behind Proud Mobile Welding
Richard Burdick grew up in Coleman, Texas — a small West Texas town where people still believe in showing up early, working hard, and standing behind their word. Long before welding became a career, it was something Richard was naturally drawn to. He discovered early on that working with steel wasn't just a job — it was something he genuinely enjoyed doing.
Ask Richard what it's like when he's welding and he'll tell you he gets locked in. The distractions disappear. The focus narrows. The heat, the arc, the metal, and the movement all come together in a way that's difficult to explain unless you've spent years behind a hood yourself. After more than twenty years in the trade, that focus has been refined through thousands of hours of hands-on experience working on structural steel, pipe systems, commercial projects, equipment repair, custom fabrication, and specialty alloy work.
Over the years, Richard has worked alongside some of the most talented welders in Texas and developed a reputation for quality workmanship and attention to detail. He takes pride in doing things the right way, not the fast way. The finished repair speaks for itself.
Proud Mobile Welding was built around a simple idea: show up, diagnose the problem correctly, and fix it right — wherever it is. Structural, industrial, agricultural, or residential. No shortcuts. No sales pressure. No layers of management between the customer and the welder doing the work.
When you call Proud Mobile Welding, you're talking directly with the person responsible for the job. The same person who assesses it, diagnoses it, and repairs it. That hands-on approach is what allows us to maintain the quality, accountability, and workmanship our customers expect.
That is Proud Mobile Welding. Built stronger. Built right. Built to come to you.
20 Years Across Every Welding Process and Project Type
Every Process. Every Material. Every Job.
Most people who call themselves welders have experience in one or two processes. Richard Burdick has spent twenty years mastering all of them.
Stick welding — the foundational process. Wire feed — the workhorse of structural fabrication and field repair. TIG — the precision process that aluminum, stainless, and architectural work demands. Flux core — for heavy structural steel in field conditions. Brazing — for joining dissimilar metals where fusion welding is not appropriate.
Every position. Flat, horizontal, vertical, overhead. Every material. Carbon steel, stainless, aluminum, ornamental iron. Every project type. Structural steel, equipment repair, agricultural machinery, custom fabrication, gates, fencing, and interior architectural work.
This range of experience is not common. It is the result of twenty years of deliberately taking on every type of welding challenge available — working with the best crews in the trade, on the most demanding projects, in conditions that forced precision and speed in equal measure.
When Richard shows up at your property, your job site, or your field to repair a piece of equipment, weld a structural connection, or build something custom — he is bringing all twenty years of that experience to your project. Not a crew member. Not an apprentice. The owner.
The Standard Every Proud Mobile Welding Job Is Held To
Proud Mobile Welding is a new Austin business. But the standards it operates by are twenty years old. Here's exactly what every client — homeowner, contractor, commercial property manager, or farm and ranch operation — can expect from every job..
What We Build
THE WORK IS DONE ON-SITE, WHEREVER YOU ARE
Proud Mobile Welding doesn't diagnose over the phone and show up with a generic fix. Every repair and every build is assessed, measured, and welded directly on-site — your property, your job site, or your field — custom to your exact conditions. What gets fixed was fixed for the actual problem, not a guess.
EVERY JOB GETS ASSESSED BEFORE THE FIRST WELD
A crack rarely means what it looks like on the surface. Stress concentrates in unexpected places, components fail for reasons that aren't visible until you look closely, and a repair that ignores the real cause fails again. Proud Mobile Welding assesses every job before any repair decision is made — because why something failed matters as much as fixing what's broken.
You Get a Straight Price Before Any Work Begins
Every Proud Mobile Welding estimate is itemized and digital — line by line, material by material, labor by labor. No handshake pricing. No vague allowances that inflate at invoice. If the scope changes you hear about it before we act — not after. The price you agree to is the price you pay.
YOU GET A REAL ANSWER, FAST
No call center reading from a script. When you reach out to Proud Mobile Welding, you're talking to someone who actually understands the work — not just someone taking a message. Quote requests are answered within 24 business hours. Urgent repair calls get a same-day response. Whatever the question, you get a straight answer from someone who knows what they're talking about, not a runaround.
How Every Proud Mobile Welding Job Works
Every job — from a stuck gate in Westlake Hills to a structural repair on a job site along the I-35 corridor — follows the same five-step process. No shortcuts. No surprises
Step 1 — The Conversation
We talk to you directly — no sales rep passing you off to someone else halfway through. You describe what broke, where it is, and how urgent it is. We ask the questions that matter — what's actually failing, the access conditions, the timeline you're working with. The ones that determine whether the repair gets done right the first time.
Step 2 — The Site Assessment
Before any estimate is written, we assess the job on-site. We look at what actually failed, the access conditions, and anything else that will affect how the repair needs to be approached. This is the step most contractors skip. It's the step that determines whether the fix actually holds.
Step 3 — The Itemized Estimate
You receive a clear, digital, line-by-line estimate before any work begins. Every material. Every labor item. Every scope element. No hidden fees. No vague allowances. If you have questions about any line item, you get a direct answer.
Step 4 — THE REPAIR
We show up on the agreed date and weld everything on-site to the exact specifications in the estimate. The work area is kept clean throughout. Finished surfaces are protected. When we leave your property, it looks like we were never there — except for the repair that's now done.
Step 5 — The Walk-Through
When the job is complete, we walk through the finished work with you. Every weld is reviewed. Every repaired component is tested. Everything is verified against what was agreed. If anything isn't exactly right, it gets addressed before we leave.
Why Richard Brought Proud Mobile Welding to Austin
Austin is one of the most demanding markets in Texas for quality trade work. Homeowners in Westlake Hills, Tarrytown, and Lakeway have high standards and the resources to enforce them. The custom home builders and general contractors working across Central Texas need welders who can read drawings, pass inspections, and protect their reputations. The commercial and industrial property managers along I-35 need vendors who move fast and document properly. And the farms and ranches across the outer counties need someone who'll actually show up when equipment breaks mid-season.Austin also has a repair problem. Most welding outfits are built around new installs and big contracts — a broken gate, a cracked bracket, or a piece of equipment down for a day doesn't fit their model. A city full of property owners, contractors, and operators who need something fixed right now, and a service market full of companies too busy or too franchise-bound to take the call.Richard saw a market that needed exactly what he's spent twenty years building — genuine welding expertise across every process and material, personal accountability, and a straight-shooter approach to pricing and communication. Proud Mobile Welding is the result of that decision.This is not a side business. It is not a franchise location run by people who have never held a torch. It is Richard Burdick's life's work brought to Austin — mobile, self-powered, and built to show up wherever the job is. It will be built one repair at a time until Proud Mobile Welding is the name Austin property owners, contractors, and operators reach for first when something's broken and needs to be fixed right.
WHY PROUD MOBILE WELDING CAME TO AUSTIN
Every repair Proud Mobile Welding completes is assessed on-site, addressed at the structural level, and welded to last — not patched to get through the next few months.
Every Residential Project Includes:
- On-site assessment before any work begins
- Honest diagnosis — root cause not just the symptom
- Fully self-powered setup — no access to your electricity
- Structural repair — built to last not patched to hold
- Clear estimate before work starts — no surprise charges
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New to Austin. Not New to the Work.
Proud Mobile Welding is a new Austin business. We don't have fifty Google reviews yet. We're not going to pretend otherwise. What we have is twenty years of welding experience, a five-step process built on site assessment and honest pricing, and an owner who personally oversees the standard every job is held to. We're building our reputation one repair at a time. Every client we take on right now is an early Proud Mobile Welding client — and that means your job gets our full attention without exception. If your repair meets the standard we've set for every job — and it will — we'll ask you to share your experience on Google. Not as a formality. Because the next Austin homeowner, contractor, or property manager doing this research deserves to know what working with Proud Mobile Welding is actually like.
