Heavy equipment hydraulic repair in Knights Landing, 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 Knights Landing from Woodland with the same published prices as everywhere else in the county.
Knights Landing is rice. The town sits on the Sacramento River levee at the north end of Highway 113, and the ground around it, out to Sycamore Slough and down into the Yolo Bypass, floods every spring and harvests every fall. Rice equipment is a particular kind of hydraulic customer: harvesters with header lift, reel and unloading circuits, bankout carts with dump cylinders, tracked tractors and levee machines with drive motors and blade cylinders, and all of it working in mud and water for eight weeks and then parked for ten months. Nothing in Knights Landing fixes any of it, and the drive to Woodland is 20 minutes.
During rice harvest we run the truck up Highway 113 on a standing basis. The common calls are hoses, header lift cylinders bleeding down, and unloading auger drive motors, and the goal is to have the machine cutting again before the field dries out or the next storm comes in. The mobile crimper makes hoses at the machine, and the harvester and cart cylinders that need a bench go to the Woodland shop for a fast turn.
Off season the work shifts to the water side: levee maintenance equipment, the hydraulic gates and pumps on the district drains, and the excavators and dozers rebuilding checks and ditches before the flood-up. Those machines get the same published rates as the harvest work.
Water, pitted rods and the ten-month layup
Rice ground puts water in places hydraulics were not designed for. Cylinders on bankout carts and tracked tractors run half submerged, water gets past the rod wiper, and the rod pits over the winter where it sat wet. If a cart cylinder is going to be parked for ten months, extend it, wipe the rod, and grease it, or plan on a rechrome in the spring.
Rice fields and river roads we cover from Highway 113
Regular stops include the Sacramento River levee, Highway 113 north, Sycamore Slough, the Knights Landing Outfall Gates, County Road 16, the Yolo Bypass, covering ZIP 95645. If your machines are near those, the truck has probably already worked your road.
Price a rice harvester or cart repair
Describe the machine and the symptom; the quote comes off the published price table.
Knights Landing rice grower questions
Can you get to a harvester in the field during rice harvest?
Yes. Knights Landing is about 20 minutes up Highway 113, so the trip fee is near the low end of $150 to $235 and a hose call during work hours is usually on site within two hours. In season we hold parts for the common harvester circuits.
What does a bankout cart dump cylinder rebuild cost?
Cart dump cylinders are large bore and fall in the $1,000 to $3,000 rebuild range. If the rod pitted over the winter, add $400 to $1,500 for a rechrome or a new rod. We say which it needs before we start.
Do you work on levee and water district equipment?
We do. Excavator and dozer cylinders, the hydraulic gate and pump units on district drains, and the tracked tractors that work the checks all come through the shop or get hoses at the machine. Same published rates.
Is it worth fixing a harvester header lift cylinder or just replacing it?
Usually fixing. A reseal on a small-bore header lift cylinder is $350 to $900, well under a new cylinder from the dealer, and turnaround in the shop is a day or two. We only push replacement when the barrel is scored past honing.
Capay Hydraulics covers Yolo County from Woodland. See the full service rundown, the price table, emergency service, or nearby areas: Dunnigan, Natomas (North Sacramento), Woodland.