Heavy equipment hydraulic repair in Winters, 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 Winters from Woodland with the same published prices as everywhere else in the county.
Winters is almonds and walnuts. The orchards run along Putah Creek and up Highway 128 toward the Berryessa hills, and the town has one of the largest nut processors in the state on Railroad Avenue. The machines that make that work are hydraulic from front to back: shaker clamps and boom cylinders, sweeper head motors and lift cylinders, harvester pickup drives, and the loaders that stack bins. The season is short and the loads are brutal, and there has been no cylinder shop closer than Woodland, 30 minutes east on Road 29 or Highway 128 and I-505.
In shaker season we run Winters as a priority route. A clamp cylinder that starts bleeding down gets pulled the same evening and rebuilt overnight where we can, because a shaker that will not hold is a crew standing around at $0 an acre. The rest of the year the work is the usual orchard set: sprayer fan drives, tractor remotes and loader cylinders, the hydraulic tilt on bin trailers, and the pumps and valves on the older orchard tractors that a lot of Winters growers keep running for decades.
The nut plant itself runs lift trucks, dock levelers and conveyor hydraulics year round, and we handle those the same way we do the warehouse work in Woodland: cylinders pulled and rebuilt in the shop, hoses and levelers fixed at the dock, scheduled around receiving.
Dust, wipers and the scored bore
Orchard dust is the enemy of every seal in Winters. Sweepers and harvesters run in a cloud of it for weeks, it packs into rod wipers, and the next thing the rod does is pull grit past the seal on every stroke. A worn wiper on a sweeper lift cylinder is a $20 part; the scored bore it causes is a $1,000 rebuild. We replace wipers on sight.
Winters orchards and the road we take to them
Regular stops include Putah Creek, Highway 128, the Mariani Nut Company plant, Railroad Avenue, County Road 89, the Lake Berryessa road, covering ZIP 95694. If your machines are near those, the truck has probably already worked your road.
Quote an orchard cylinder or motor for Winters
Describe the machine and the symptom; the quote comes off the published price table.
Winters orchard hydraulic questions
Can you rebuild a shaker clamp cylinder during harvest?
Yes, and we treat it as an emergency. Clamp cylinders are large bore, so the rebuild is $1,000 to $3,000 on the published table, and in season we pull it the same evening and turn it as fast as the seal kit and honing allow, often overnight.
Do you come out to orchards on Highway 128 past town?
We do. Winters is about 30 minutes from the shop, so mobile trip fees sit toward the upper middle of the $150 to $235 range. Hoses get made at the machine; cylinders that need the bench ride back to Woodland with us.
What does it cost to fix a sweeper head hydraulic motor?
Motor repair or replacement runs $800 to $4,000. Sweeper head motors are usually gear or gerotor motors at the low end of that. If the motor failed from contamination we will say so, because the same dirty oil will kill the replacement.
You are in Woodland. Why not use a shop in Vacaville or Sacramento instead?
You can, and some growers do. The difference is the truck comes to the orchard, the price is published before we start, and we know which cylinders on which shakers fail every September. Winters is a regular route for us, not a one-off drive.
Capay Hydraulics covers Yolo County from Woodland. See the full service rundown, the price table, emergency service, or nearby areas: Vacaville, Esparto and the Capay Valley, Knights Landing.