Excavators, dozers, wheel loaders, skid steers, track loaders and backhoes repaired where they sit. One truck comes to you instead of a lowboy taking your machine away for three days.
Phone answered 24/7. Based in St Johns, working fifteen towns across eleven counties.
A machine that quits in the middle of a pad is not really a repair problem. It is a schedule problem. The repair might be four hours of work, but hauling it out and back turns that into most of a week, and the crew, the rental clock and the completion date all keep running while it sits on a trailer.
So we work the other way around. The service truck comes to the job site with diagnostic gear, hand tools, fluids and the wear parts that break most often, and the machine gets fixed where it is standing. Roadside, on a pad, in a pit, in a fleet yard, at the back of a farm, in a subdivision that is still mud.
That covers a lot more ground than people expect. Hydraulic leaks and blown hoses, electrical faults, cooling and fuel systems, starters and alternators, sensors, brakes, hydraulic cylinders and a fair share of engine work all get handled in the field. Some jobs genuinely need a roof and a lift, and we tell you which one you are looking at on the first call rather than after the teardown starts.
Six things we hear on the phone most weeks, and what each one usually turns out to be.
A machine that dies under load and refuses to fire is usually fuel, air or a sensor, not a rebuild. The worst thing you can do is keep cranking on it. Every attempt fills the cylinders with more fuel and washes the bores down.
Slow travel, weak breakout force, cycles that used to be quick and now crawl. Pump wear, a stuck relief valve, a clogged suction screen or a plugged filter. It will not get better and running it hot makes the pump worse.
A hose that has been replaced twice in a month is not a hose problem. Something is chafing it, over-pressuring it, or the fitting is wrong for the application. Chasing the leak instead of the cause is how you fund three repairs. What to do when a hose blows.
Radiator packed with dust and chaff, a failing water pump, a bad fan drive, or a head gasket starting to let go. Heavy iron in Florida heat has very little margin, and a machine that runs hot for a week rarely stays a cheap repair.
Modern machines protect themselves by cutting power. Clearing the code without finding the cause buys you about a week. Aftertreatment faults, sensor drift and rubbed-through harnesses all look identical from the seat. DEF and DPF derates explained.
Operators know their machines. A whine, a knock or a grind that was not there on Monday is worth a phone call on Tuesday, not a month from now when it has taken the bearings and the housing with it.
We ask what the machine is, what it was doing when it failed, what changed and where it sits. That conversation decides what parts come on the truck and whether the job is a field job at all.
Access matters more than people think. Soft ground, a machine on a slope, a boom in the air or a bucket loaded are all things that get sorted before a wrench comes out.
Pressures, flows, voltages, live data off the ECM. Guessing at parts on somebody else's dime is how shops lose customers, and it is how machines come back broken twice.
You get the cause and a price before the repair starts. If it is going to run past what the machine is worth fixing in the field, you hear that instead of a running bill.
Parts sourced, repair made, torque specs followed. The common wear items are already on the truck. Anything ordered gets scheduled so you are not waiting on a surprise.
A machine that idles fine in the yard is not repaired. We work it, watch temperatures and pressures, and confirm the fault is actually gone before the truck leaves.
The same truck works all of these. What tends to fail differs by machine, so here is where each one usually goes wrong.
Swing and travel motors, main pump wear, blown boom and stick hoses, worn pins and bushings in the linkage, and the electrical faults that drop a newer machine into limp mode. Mini excavators get the same attention. When the trouble is in a pump or a cylinder, that is hydraulic repair, and it is field work too.
Final drives, track tension and undercarriage wear, blade lift and tilt cylinders, steering and brake problems on older machines, and cooling packs plugged solid with dust. On site work and land clearing the undercarriage takes the beating, which is why it has its own page: final drive and undercarriage repair.
Transmission and torque converter complaints, brake wear, articulation joint and pin wear, lift and tilt cylinders, and the pump that runs all of it. Diagnosis happens on site either way. A transmission that has to come out is a shop job, and you hear that up front. Loaders in plants and pits run long hours, which makes scheduled maintenance the cheapest repair they ever get.
Drive motors and chain cases, hydrostatic drive faults, quick attach and auxiliary hydraulics, safety interlocks that will not release, and rubber tracks walking off the rollers. Compact machines pack a lot into a small engine bay, so reading the machine beats guessing at parts. Diesel diagnostics is where most of these calls start.
Backhoes: loader and hoe hydraulics, swing cylinders, stabilizers and the shuttle transmission. Graders: circle drive wear, moldboard hydraulics, tandem drives and the electrical behind modern grader controls. Both get the same approach. Diagnose on site, fix on site when it is safe and sensible, and say so when it is not.
Mulcher heads, drive belts and bearings, high flow hydraulic circuits running hot, cooling packs choked with chips, and carriers that live in the worst conditions any machine sees. Down time in land clearing is counted in acres, so this is field work almost by definition.
The repair bill is the part everybody looks at. It is usually not the expensive part. Run your own numbers down this list before you call a hauler.
| Line item | Haul it to a shop | Mobile repair on site |
|---|---|---|
| Transport | Lowboy both ways, plus a permit if it is oversize | None |
| Loading time | Machine and operator tied up on both ends | None |
| Crew downtime | Days, not hours, and they are still on payroll | Hours in most cases |
| Schedule | You wait for a hauler and then a shop slot | You wait for one truck |
| Rental replacement | Often needed to keep the job moving | Usually not |
| Liquidated damages | Possible if the job has a completion date | Usually avoided |
Tell us the machine, the symptom and where it sits. We ask a few questions so the right parts come with us.
Field job or shop job, and roughly when we can be there. If we are too far out to help today, you hear it on the first call.
Pressures, codes, readings. You get the actual cause and a number before a wrench turns on the repair.
We fix it, test it under load and clean up. You get told what failed and what to watch so it does not happen twice.
Call. Do not fill in a form and wait. The phone is answered around the clock and you will get an honest answer on that first call about whether we can reach you in time to do any good.
Heavy equipment repair covers the machine. These pages cover the systems inside it.
Tell us the machine, the symptom and where it sits. If we can help, you will know on the first call. If we cannot get to you in time to do any good, we will say that too.
(904) 496-2937