For 5 Questions this week, the Herald speaks to Jace Landman, who runs Landman Welding at 407 Towner Ave. in Larimore.
Q: How did you come to own your shop?
A: Right out of college there was another welding shop down by Northwood, where the guy was looking at retiring, and, instead of going out and finding a job, I would start my own business. I went to Northland Tech in East Grand Forks.
Q: When did you decide you wanted to be a welder?
A: It was in high school, I suppose. They had it in shop class and I started playing around with it and having fun with it. The instructor was Max Danner here, so he had all sorts of farm stuff that we were doing for him, his own personal stuff.
Q: What are the routine usual projects that you usually work on?
A: Farm and agricultural equipment. Just a little bit of everything. You never know it from day to day. Last week I was working on some cattle equipment for a farmer, and this week I'm working on a header for another guy and a couple other projects. You kind of never know what's going to walk through the door. I had some bar stools last week that I welded for a person.
Q: What's something really unique that you've done?
A: I built a skid plate for a movie car. It was a prop car from the Fast and the Furious that a customer bought, and I ended up building parts for it that didn't come with it. They had made five of these cars, and they only used the same skid plate from car to car. They just unbolted it and put it on another car. Well, when (the customer) got it, it didn't have anything on it, so he wanted me to make one up. A skid plate goes underneath the front end of the vehicle to protect the engine. It was a ‘69 Camaro.
Q: You must be pretty busy. Do you go it alone, or do you have staff?
A: Just me alone. Yeah, I'm busy. My dad owns the auto parts store in town, so I help him once in a while, too. It used to be an old John Deere dealership. We've got a big shop, and there's multiple different buildings here. I just started working on the shop here. I own the welding side of it; my dad owns the auto parts side of it.
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