Heavy equipment hydraulic repair in Dixon, CA
Hoses made at the machine, cylinders pulled and rebuilt, pumps and valves, emergencies, from the Woodland shop and truck. Call (916) 848-2246 or send the form below.
Capay Hydraulics serves Dixon from Woodland with the same published prices as everywhere else in the county.
Dixon sits 25 minutes south of Woodland on Highway 113 and grows the same crops on the same kind of ground: processing tomatoes, wheat, sunflower seed, alfalfa, and the walnut orchards spreading across Dixon Ridge. What Dixon adds is a processing plant. The Campbell Soup facility on the north side of town runs a lift-truck fleet and a receiving yard that take tomato loads around the clock in season, and every one of those lifts, dock levelers and trailer dollies is hydraulic. Nobody in Dixon rebuilds a cylinder, so the work has been driving to Sacramento or Stockton. It does not have to.
On the farm side, the machines that come through the shop from Dixon are tomato harvesters, bankout carts, grain carts, ripper and disc lift cylinders, and the loaders on the feed and sheep operations west of town. Harvest-season hose failures get handled at the field from the mobile truck, which carries the four-spiral hose and ORFS and JIC fittings the newer Deere and Case IH tractors use. Cylinders that need a bench, a bent rod or a scored bore, go to Woodland and come back in a day or two.
Dixon also gets a fair amount of construction and trucking traffic off the I-80 and Highway 113 junction: dump trucks with weeping hoist cylinders, walking-floor trailers, and the skid steers and mini excavators on the subdivisions filling in south of town. Those get the same published rates as everything else.
Shaker season on Dixon Ridge
Walnut orchards on Dixon Ridge run shakers and sweepers hard for about six weeks in the fall, and the shaker clamp cylinders take the worst of it: high pressure, sideways loading, and dust. A clamp cylinder that starts bleeding down mid-shift should be pulled that evening, because a clamp that lets go on a trunk is a lost tree.
Dixon roads and yards on the route
Regular stops include the Campbell Soup plant, Dixon Ridge, the I-80 and Highway 113 junction, Pedrick Road, the Dixon May Fair grounds, Currey Road, covering ZIP 95620. If your machines are near those, the truck has probably already worked your road.
Written pricing for Dixon hydraulic work
Describe the machine and the symptom; the quote comes off the published price table.
What Dixon growers and fleets ask us
Do you cover Dixon, or is it outside your area?
Dixon is squarely inside the area. It is about 25 minutes from the shop on Highway 113, so mobile trip fees sit in the middle of the $150 to $235 range and same-day service is normal during work hours.
Can you work on lift trucks at the processing plant?
Yes. Forklift mast, tilt and sideshift cylinders get pulled on site and rebuilt in the shop, and hoses and dock equipment are fixed at the dock. We schedule around the plant receiving windows so the yard keeps moving.
What do you charge to rebuild a walnut shaker clamp cylinder?
Most clamp cylinders are large bore and fall in the $1,000 to $3,000 rebuild range on our cost page. If the rod is straight and the bore is clean it lands near the bottom; a scored bore or a rod that needs chrome pushes it up. We say which before starting.
Will you come out for one blown hose on a tomato harvester?
That is the most common Dixon call in August and September. One hose, made at the machine from the truck, is $245 to $750 including the trip fee. If the hose next to it is the same age and looks tired we will tell you, but the decision is yours.
Capay Hydraulics covers Yolo County from Woodland. See the full service rundown, the price table, emergency service, or nearby areas: Davis, Winters, Vacaville.