Hydraulic Hose Repair Cost?

[Jameshenry]

What's wrong with the screw together type fittings?
Do they all have to be crimped these days?

Wouldn't imagine screw fittings would cope with the pressure of a fair size excavator , i use a spaldings crimper for tractor hoses but tractor hydraulics don't run as high a pressure as excavators

 

[tweedale terrier]

If you take into consideration the fact5 you had very little downtime id say its fair enough. Its not the first time if trailed from one dealer to the next looking for hose fittings wasting time and fuel.

 

[Muck Spreader]

If you take into consideration the fact5 you had very little downtime id say its fair enough. Its not the first time if trailed from one dealer to the next looking for hose fittings wasting time and fuel.

It's ruddy annoying how many different couplings and pipes there are. You would think they could be standardised a bit.

 

[john432]

Huge range in just pipes, single wire, twin wire, usually called 2SN, and theres 2SC twin wire compact hose, smaller outside diameter, and more flexable in curving. As you go up in size the rated pressure drops so by 3/4" upwards you might need a 4 wire hose . Some pipes need skiving before fitting and crimping, some dont. ...this is just the basics, probably 100's of different spec pipes.

 

[Goweresque]

The actual cost can be easily worked out by putting the required details into the Hydraulic Megastore's custom hose calculator. They also do next day delivery.......

https://hydraulicmegastore.com/hose-assembly/

 

[KB6930]

What's wrong with the screw together type fittings?
Do they all have to be crimped these days?

Screw type fittings are very handy I've still got a few lying around and it's amazing how handy they are at times at least to get going again till it can be repaired/replaced properly

 

[Grouse]

The actual cost can be easily worked out by putting the required details into the Hydraulic Megastore's custom hose calculator. They also do next day delivery.......

https://hydraulicmegastore.com/hose-assembly/

Unbelievable - just done it £29.52 as opposed to £217.46 (£260.95 Incl Vat)

 

[Chae1]

Take it off yourself next time and take it to them to be repaired.

Broke rear window on NH last week. Phoned dealer £235 for new window. Phoned scotglass for price fitted, £410.

Probably took 1.5 hours to pick up and fit. Would have been an hour of that going to get it.

Not often I earn £110/hour.

 

[Grouse]

The joke is I did take it off myself :-(

 

[Mursal]

Easy to get caught ..................

 

[Grouse]

It won’t happen again, I don’t mind paying extra for a call out quick job, but I object to my request for a price being deliberately avoided and then being blatantly ripped off.

 

[Chae1]

I think people need to learn, you only rip someone off once.

 

[Grouse]

Agreed there - correspondence has been sent this morning

 

[Hilly]

You have been bumped, we all get bumped at some point trick is not to get bumped twice of same company.

 

[bobk]

Was it Pirtek .... right robbing f**kers .

 

[Grouse]

No it wasn’t - it was a local independant chap 10 miles away which did suprise me - the suprising thing is talking to locals who also operate plant there is no consistency with his charging - others would have had a bill for £75 and I get a bill for £260 - I sincerely think/hope I don’t look like a fecking mug

 

[bobk]

No it wasn’t - it was a local indelendant chap 10 miles away which did suprise me

That's poor then , did my my main hose on the loadall , 1 inch pipe about 4 foot long £40 , but I took it in . like @Hilly says we all get caught once .

 

[ACEngineering]

You could have bought all the bits needed for that hose for probably less than £35 . A meter of 3/4" four wire hose @£9.10 ,ferrules @£1.25 each, 90degree flange fitting about£10 plus the other ,which should be less!
It looks like theres good money to be made from hydraulic pipes, but one will soon spend a couple of thousands and still not be able to stock a fraction of all the different fittings available.
£218? That is one heck of a margin, 2 pipes a day and he'd have a good living!

Sorry but what trade hose supplier is going to anyone 1m of multi spiral hose! You tend to have to buy that sort of thing on a roll of at least 20m
And the tools to crimp said hose at there cheapest is £1500 but a proper hose fitter will probably have a much higher spec crimper on board at least double that cost. Then they will also have insurance to cover there arse if something went wrong after. Lots of hidden costs and lots of variation of hose spec and quality.

All hose repair vans charge top money and they can because all there core customers are plant hire firms or large building contractors or industrial, rare to see a hose van on a farm/agri.

 

[Grouse]

You have been bummed we all get bummed at some point trick is not to get bummed twice of same company.

There fixed it for you ! it Certainty felt like it! Not that I have ever experienced it - but trying to remain light hearted

 

[ACEngineering]

If i took in a multi spirel hose to my local hyd shop i would expect a bill for at least £70 plus vat for anything up to 1m especially if it had sae flange fittings.

Theres not many local to me that can make multi spirel anyway.