CDDHS Co-op Corner: Haynes Welding in Shelburne

This week Cooper Grace-Cavey from Centre Dufferin District High School shares a little bit about his experience and how Haynes Welding is contributing to our community's future.

Bill Haynes has been in the industry for about 30 years. He is a welder and fabricator as well as a mechanic when he needs to be. 

Bill provides the service that everyone needs from truckers to farmers to regular people who work a 9-5 job. He can handle just about any custom job that is thrown his way. Bill is the owner and manager of Haynes Welding, while the other employees are Eric and Austin who do much of the fabricating that they are instructed to do.

I am a helper around the shop. I cut and clean metal, as well as weld on smaller non-structural joints. Also, I am involved in bending metal from time to time. I have yet to weld aluminum or any major welds and I have yet to use the lathe and mill.  We use mig welders as well as tig and stick welder combos to do all the welding. Bill uses the mill to drill and machine pieces, as well as the lathe to machine and round parts.

This industry has many branches, one of them is machinists, which involves making parts on a mill and lathe, or machining existing parts to specific tolerances. 

There is also a large sector in welding suppliers. This involves supplying the parts that all shops need to operate. 

Another career would be welder itself, which is fairly self-explanatory. A different possible career would be in manufacturing, where they make new parts for anything from cars to oil rigs.

Bill has been extensively contributing to the community informally for many years. He has worked hard with many co-op students training them in the industry and giving them an opportunity to experience the world of work beyond high school.