Heavy Equipment Repair Near Me — We Come Get the Machine

Every search result for “heavy equipment repair near me” makes the same assumption: that you can get the machine there. But the whole reason you’re searching is that something on it doesn’t work. A skid steer with a dead drive motor doesn’t load itself. An excavator with a boom problem isn’t crawling onto a trailer. So the real question isn’t which shop is closest — it’s which shop will come get the machine. That’s us.

“Near Me” Really Means “Who Hauls It”

Ames Hydraulics offers free pickup and delivery within 60 miles of our shop in Ames, Iowa — and that’s not a hose van, it’s us hauling your equipment. Skid steers, mini excavators, lifts, loaders, full-size machines: we bring the trailer, load the machine, fix it in the shop where the real tools are, and bring it back to your yard or jobsite when it’s done.

That changes the math on “heavy equipment repair near me” completely. A shop two miles away that makes you arrange your own transport is farther away, in every way that costs money, than a shop that shows up with a trailer.

The Radius: 60 Miles Around Ames

Our free-haul radius covers most of Central Iowa. Ames, Boone, Nevada, Story City, Huxley, Ankeny, and the north Des Moines metro are all easy runs, and we regularly pick up from Marshalltown, Webster City, Jefferson, and the farm ground in between. If you’re on the edge of the circle, call anyway — we’ve never let a few miles kill a job, and we’ll tell you straight what it’ll take.

For contractors and rental fleets running machines across multiple sites, that radius means one phone call replaces a morning of logistics. Tell us where the machine sits, and it’s our problem from there. If the machine is on a jobsite with tight access or soft ground, say so when you call — we’ll plan the pickup around it instead of discovering it at the gate.

It also means “heavy equipment repair near me” doesn’t have to mean the shop in your zip code. Plenty of our pickups come from towns with no equipment shop at all. The machine’s “local shop” is whichever one answers the phone and shows up — and for a big slice of Central Iowa, that’s a trailer coming out of Ames.

Send Photos, Get a Number

Before anything moves, you can know what you’re dealing with. Text photos or a short video of the problem — the leak, the crack, the cylinder that won’t hold — to 515-292-2599. We’ll look at it the same day, tell you what we think it needs, and give you a number and a pickup plan. No trip charge to find out, no machine sitting in a queue just to get an opinion.

That’s the difference between us and most equipment repair near me results: we’ve built the quote process around the fact that your machine can’t come to the counter.

What Turnaround Actually Looks Like

Nobody wants their machine to vanish into a shop for a month, so here’s how we run it. When the machine arrives, it gets looked at and torn into promptly — not parked in a back lot. You get a call with what we found and a firm price before real work starts. Common jobs like cylinder resealing and hose work turn around fast; bigger structural or machining work takes longer, and we’ll tell you how long up front and keep you posted if anything changes. When it’s done, we load it and bring it back.

A word on parts, because parts drive timelines: common seal kits, hoses, and fittings we stock or source fast; oddball components for older machines can take longer, and when that happens you’ll know the day we know. Machines never sit here waiting for someone to remember them.

If you searched “heavy equipment repair near me” because a machine is holding up a job, say so. We understand what a stalled crew costs per hour, and we prioritize accordingly.

The Shop at the Other End of the Trailer

Hauling is only worth something if the shop it delivers to can actually fix the machine. Ames Hydraulics is a full heavy equipment shop: hydraulic cylinder rebuilds with pressure testing on every unit, structural welding on booms and buckets and frames, and in-house machining for pins, bushings, and parts nobody stocks anymore. Cylinders come off, get rebuilt and pressure tested, and go back on right here — nothing gets sublet across town while your machine waits on a second shop’s schedule. For the full rundown of what we fix and how, see our heavy equipment repair page →, our hydraulic cylinder rebuild service →, and if the down machine is a digger, excavator pickup and repair →.

When people around here search for machinery repair, Ames is where the machines end up — ours is the shop the trailer backs into.

One Call Does It

Here’s the whole process: you call or text 515-292-2599 with photos and a location. We give you a number and a pickup time. We haul it, fix it, test it, and bring it back. That’s what heavy equipment repair near me should have meant all along.

Ames Hydraulics · 210 Freel Dr, Ames, IA 50010 · Monday–Friday, 7AM–5PM. If you can’t bring it to us, that’s fine — that’s the point. We come to you, and the haul is free within 60 miles. Got a machine down right now? Send us a picture of it, and let’s get a trailer headed your way. The search for heavy equipment repair near me ends with somebody actually showing up — and we do.