Mobile hydraulic hose repair that comes to the machine
A blown hose stops a baler or a whole crew. Our truck carries the crimper, the hose stock, the fittings. The repair happens where the machine died.
Longmont Mobile Hydraulics is a mobile hydraulic hose and cylinder repair service based in Longmont, Colorado, serving farms and job sites on both sides of the Boulder and Weld county line.
If a hydraulic hose fails on a tractor or a skid steer near Longmont, Colorado, a mobile repair truck can usually fix it on site the same day for $220 to $450 all-in, which covers the service call, a replacement hose cut and crimped at the machine, and the fittings. Cylinder resealing typically runs $350 to $900, and after-hours emergency work carries a higher service call plus 1.5 times labor. On-site repair matters here because the machines that break, from center pivots and feed mixers to excavators on new subdivisions, mostly cannot travel to a shop, and hauling them costs more than the repair. Response time across Longmont and the surrounding ag grid is typically 15 to 35 minutes during working hours, with harvest and feeding breakdowns sequenced first.
We drive to the breakdown
The service truck is a hose shop on wheels: bulk hydraulic hose in the common two-wire and four-wire sizes, a crimper, fitting racks that run from JIC to metric, spiral guard, hose clamps, clean fluid. That inventory is the whole point. When the truck arrives ready, one trip finishes the job, and your downtime is measured in hours instead of days.
It is a heavy pickup, not a semi, so it reaches the places equipment actually dies: a field entrance off WCR 7, a canyon driveway above Lyons, a feedlot alley, a subdivision lot with no address yet. If a pickup can get within hose-carry distance of your machine, we can work on it.
Fast matters most when the calendar is against you. Hay on the ground, cows waiting on a feed mixer, a concrete pour scheduled for 7 am. Breakdowns with a deadline are sequenced first, every time, and Longmont Mobile Hydraulics keeps its schedule loose enough to absorb them.
On the truck, every day
- Two-wire and four-wire hose, 1/4 inch through 1 inch
- Fitting stock from JIC and o-ring boss to flat-face and metric
- Crimper and saw, no shop power needed
- Quick couplers, ag and flat-face styles
- Cylinder tooling, seal kits ordered to the machine
- Spiral guard and abrasion sleeve for the reroute
What we fix on the first trip
Hydraulic hose repair
Hoses built and fitted at the machine. Thread ends from JIC to metric, matched from the failed hose itself.
Read more →Cylinder reseal and repair
Drifting booms, weeping rods, buckets that will not hold. Resealed on site when the rod allows, benched when it does not.
Read more →Farm equipment hydraulics
Tractors, balers, loaders, feed mixers, pivot drives. Harvest and feeding deadlines jump the queue.
Read more →Construction equipment
Skid steers, excavators, telehandlers, trenchers on the subdivision corridors. PO numbers and cost codes on the invoice.
Read more →Pricing you can read before you call
Hydraulic repair around here is normally priced after the fact, which is exactly when you have no choice left. We publish the table instead. The short version:
| Job | Typical all-in range | What moves the price |
|---|---|---|
| Single hose, made on site | $220 to $450 | Hose size and length, fitting type, distance |
| Cylinder reseal | $350 to $900 | Cylinder size, rod condition, on site or benched |
| After-hours emergency | $175 call + 1.5x labor | Stated on the phone before the truck rolls |
Built for farm equipment first
The ground around Longmont works harder than it looks from Main Street. Weld County is Colorado’s top agricultural county with roughly 4,000 farms in the 2022 USDA census, Boulder County adds another thousand on the west side of the line, and much of the St. Vrain valley farms on county agricultural open space. Every one of those operations runs on hydraulic pressure.
So our schedule is built around the farm calendar, not the other way around. Hay down ahead of an afternoon storm, a feed mixer dead at 4 am, an onion harvester chafed through mid-season: those calls go to the front of the line. Between seasons we walk fleets, flag the hoses that are one hot afternoon from failing, and replace them on your schedule instead of the machine’s. More on farm equipment work.
How a service call works
Call or send the form
Tell us the machine, the symptom, where it sits. A crossroads or a dropped pin works as well as an address.
Get the range before we roll
We quote the likely cost from the published table, by text if you want it in writing. No mystery invoice later.
The truck comes to the machine
The hose stock, the crimper, the cylinder tooling: all of it rides on the truck. Most of our coverage is inside 30 minutes.
Repair happens on site
A typical single-hose failure is diagnosed and repaired in under an hour once we arrive, tested under load before we pack up.
You approve anything beyond the quote
If teardown reveals more than the estimate covered, work stops until you approve the new number.
See a price range right now
Three questions, priced from the same table we bill against. No email wall, and the range updates as you answer.
The number most people miss is fitting identification. Ag and older equipment mixes JIC with o-ring boss and metric threads, and a wrong guess means a second parts run. We match the thread off your failed hose on site, which is why one trip usually finishes the job.
Where the truck goes
Based in Longmont, covering the farm and construction ground on both sides of the county line. Each area page covers what breaks there and how we handle it.
Common questions
- How fast can you get to a machine that is down near Longmont?
- Most of our coverage area sees a truck within 15 to 35 minutes of dispatch during working hours. Harvest breakdowns and idle crews get sequenced first. After hours, call and we roll on the emergency rate.
- What does mobile hydraulic hose repair cost?
- Most single-hose calls land between $220 and $450 all-in, which means the service call plus labor plus the hose with its fittings. Sales tax on parts is the only addition; there are no administrative or fuel fees. Bigger jobs are on the pricing page with the same honesty, and nothing is billed that was not quoted first.
- Do you repair older tractors and equipment that dealers no longer support?
- Yes, that is a large share of our work. We make hoses from bulk stock and match threads off the old fitting, so machine age does not matter the way it does at a parts counter.
- Do you only work on farm equipment?
- Farm equipment is our first priority and the reason our schedule bends around harvest and feeding, but the same truck fixes construction and quarry machines across the coverage area every week.
- Which towns do you cover?
- Longmont plus Mead, Platteville, Fort Lupton, Johnstown, Berthoud, Hygiene, Frederick, Firestone, Erie, Lyons. If you are near that footprint but not in it, call anyway and we will tell you honestly whether we can get there fast enough to be useful.
Get a number and a truck
Down right now? Call (970) 528-6741. Otherwise the form below reaches the same person.