Power Shearing Folding

Our workshop is down at No. 81 Mogappair Road in Manurpet Padi and it’s where we handle all the shearing and folding work. The machines we use are heavy and take up a lot of the floor space, so you have to watch where you walk. Most of the time we are bending sheets of metal or cutting them down to the sizes people need for their construction or repair jobs. It’s a very physical type of work and you definitely feel it in your back by the end of the week. Mogappair Road always has a lot of traffic, especially with all the trucks going through Padi, so getting deliveries in can be a bit of a gamble with the timing. The air in the shop usually smells like cold metal and machine oil. We don't really have a place to sit down much because there is always another piece that needs to be loaded onto the folders. It gets dusty and the noise of the blades can be a lot if you aren't used to it. We just wear our gear and get on with the list of jobs we have for the day. It’s a straightforward business without any of the extra stuff you see in big corporate places. We just focus on the metal and making sure the folds are straight enough for whatever the customer is building. It’s what we’ve done for many years now.