MORRIS SITE MACHINERY - BY PETER BRETT


MSM Welders waiting in the yard for refurbishment


Modern welding machines have been made smaller and lighter due to the invention of inverter technology.


Instead of using very heavy transformers to convert to the high currents needed to melt metals, inverters can be lighter and use advanced electronics to help manage welds by monitoring the electrical input and skills of the welder – thus making better welders and welds.


Modern welders are also blessed with a wide and eff ective range of safety gear including smart helmets, gauntlets and breathing masks needed for some processes.


MSM has linked with Jeff erson to market its range of tools and safety gear for welding. Keenly priced, it is of serviceable quality, and appeals to casual hiring welders as well as professionals.


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With all of the above knowledge and experience, Richard told me that MSM has had a 35-year long connection with ArcGen welders.


These are made in Japan and although they are not the cheapest, many are still being used regularly after twenty years. Indeed, we saw some of these machines in the workshop being refurbished into ‘as new’ condition.


The ArcGen machines have proved to be tough enough to withstand the rigours of the hire market where they are not only exposed to the British climate, but also the tender ministrations of their hirers.


They are combined with the compatible power units that are used on site, shipbuilding and petro-chemical industries.


The ArcGen Cobra 5000i Multi Process Inverter, which was recently included in MSM’s range of welders, is a multi-process inverter that will tackle TIG and MIG welding.


As well as being available in multiples, the welder is suitable for heavy construction as well as hire. And when you have a Cobra, you also need the Adder – a portable wire feeder unit built into a strong plastic case designed to withstand damp conditions.


To partner the ArcGen welders are the ArcGen Weldmaker Generators. Mounted on trailers and fully featured including auto engine shutdown and quiet operation, they are perfectly matched to ArcGen welders for peak effi ciency.


Service, Hire and Sales in a comprehensive package


While at Four Ashes, Richard took us on a lightning tour of the premises, so we could get more of a fl avour of the services and equipment that enable MSM to provide a comprehensive service to its hirers and equipment purchasers.


There are sections devoted to repairs and servicing of everything from welders to pumps, and generators and pressure washers.


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Since much of the hire market is seasonally driven, there are peaks and troughs of machines and equipment that are in high or low demand.


There are also production lines making up machines to meet orders placed. A small caravan of trailer generators was being assembled in one of the workshop areas, and would be ready for shipping in only a few days.


Outside in the yard were hundreds of lighting towers – now not much in demand for hire in the lighter and longer days of spring and summer. But come October and the clocks going back, most will be hired out, lighting worksites again.


Morris Site Machinery prides itself on listening to customers and being relentlessly customer focused.


I think it is very interesting that the company has not chosen the ‘cheap and cheerful’ solution to hiring and selling machines of all kinds, but instead have chosen to focus on quality, value and effi ciency rather than on ‘bottom line’ pricing.


In the longer run MSM believes that this formula is more sustainable, and better value for money because higher quality machines perform better, last longer and are therefore ‘greener’ than so called cheaper solutions.


The old adage that you get what you pay for, CLEARLY applies here too.


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