Mobile Wrench relocates

Braden Schiller
NLJ Reporter
 
Rob’s Mobile Wrench has moved to Newcastle from New Mexico.
Rob’s Mobile Wrench is a mobile handyman service owned by Robbie Steinmetz, who  has 31 years of Automotive Excellence Service certification, handyman experience and is a certified welder. 
“I put all three of those things together and no matter what, it pretty much pays the bills doing it that way. My grandfather always taught me to be a jack of all trades,” Steinmetz said. “So that’s kind of what I do. I have a lot of experience with handyman stuff because my father had a lot of rental properties, so I helped him take care of it and he taught me a lot of tricks of the trade.”
Family is a recurring theme when it comes to the story of Rob’s Mobile Wrench. Steinmetz learned his skills from his father and grandfather and is now a journeyman handyman as his grandfather was. Steinmetz even started the business after his wife suggested that doing general handiwork may help supplement his mobile mechanic business.
Steinmetz and his wife decided to move to Newcastle this year after a weeklong trip through Wyoming.
“We started up through Yellowstone and Jackson and Cody, and we’re just traveling the whole state of Wyoming last year for a little more than a week,” Steinmetz said.
He and his wife had developed a love for the area during the short trip and immediately began looking at homes in Wyoming. They focused particularly on the Black Hills area. Currently, Steinmetz has 16 acres that house both a wood shop and an auto shop for larger projects or jobs that cannot be done onsite. Steinmetz will travel 50 to 100 miles for a job. Above all, Steinmetz said, he wants to do honest work for his clients.
“One thing I guess I pride myself on and one thing my grandfather told me was (to) be a man of your word, be as good as your handshake and when you tell someone that you’re going to do something, you do it — and not only be a man of your word, but be honest. That’s just something that I pride myself on,” Steinmetz said.
Rob’s Mobile Wrench is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Steinmetz can be contacted for jobs at 746-2919.