Need to hire welder - help!

Send me PM and I'll give you info on guy I use that has been in business many years. $400 sounds like a lot for

I need to do some spot/tack welding on my hitch

P.S. I do have a welder but welding is like an art, you don't just get good at it from a couple times. So I take important welding jobs to him.

I want to weld the jacks to the frame. What do you mean by machine shops? Any suggestions?

What exactly needs to be welded? The hitch head? Receiver? For $400 you could buy a new one of those.

I would do my own and I would do some stress test on it before I took it out on the highway. With welding a lot has to do with the equipment you use. Personally, I have made some decent welds with a cheap Harbor Freight MIG welder but, for something like that I would rather use a stick welder and Lincoln rods. Welding isn't hard. It's more of an art. It takes time and practice to get good at it.

If you have never welded I would not trust a rookie weld to pull thousands of pounds down the interstate.

You can find a better deal than $400 that's crazy. Check with local machine shops. don't weld it yourself welding is a skill not learned in a few classes.