Grapes move on a schedule and machines don't get a say. When a hose lets go on a harvest tractor, a packing-house forklift or a truck on the 99, one call rolls a stocked hose truck to Delano — hose built, crimped and pressure-checked at the machine.
Delano is Kern County's second city and the center of the table-grape world. From the first summer picks through the last late-season pack-outs, the whole town runs on machines: gondola tractors working the rows, loaders staging bins, forklifts shuttling nonstop between the dock and cold storage. Citrus and roses fill out the calendar, packing houses keep big equipment fleets busy year-round, and Highway 99 pushes trucks through town day and night.
A blown line doesn't just idle a machine — it stalls a picking crew, a pack line or a load with somewhere to be. That's the call we're built for. Tell dispatch what let go and where the machine sits — a vineyard row, a packing-house yard, the shoulder of the 99 — and a truck rolls with hose, common SAE and metric fittings, and a crimper on board. In most cases that means no towing and no trip to a parts counter.
Gondola tractors, harvest tractors, loaders and bin trailers. A split line mid-pick can park a whole crew, so we come to the row and build the hose where the machine sits.
Forklifts, yard trucks and dock equipment at Delano's packing and cold-storage yards. We check in at the gate, follow your site rules and stay out of the pack line's way.
Wet kits, liftgates and trailer hydraulics for the 99 corridor — plus the north county's working fleets, from ag haulers to the operations that support the state facilities near town.
Every machine and every job is a little different, but a typical Delano call runs like this:
Delano anchors our runs up the north county. From here it's a short hop down the corridor to McFarland, west on the farm roads to Wasco, and across the county line to Earlimart when a machine is down. Most operations up here straddle a few of those towns — one number covers the whole spread. See what our trucks handle at what we fix, how we work with growers and packers at industries, or browse the full Kern County service area.
Call and a person answers. Tell us the machine, where it sits and what let go — we'll give you an honest ETA before we hang up.