Boomworks Hydraulics rebuilds boom truck hydraulics for Harvey from our bench in Kenner, with mobile service for the failures that will not wait for a tow.
The Harvey Canal has been working waterfront since before anyone alive can remember, and the yards along Peters Road still run some of the hardest used boom trucks in the metro. Oilfield service companies loading skids, fabricators setting weldments, and marine suppliers craning stores onto boats all cycle their cranes daily.
Oilfield adjacent work means heavy picks near capacity, and that shows up in the failures. Where a delivery boom dies of seal wear, Harvey booms come in with bent rods, cracked cylinder gland threads, and relief valves hammered from years of working at the top of the chart. We rebuild for that duty, with rod material and seal compounds chosen for the loads, not the catalog default.
A lot of Harvey work is scheduled around vessel movements. When a boat is at the dock waiting on a crane truck, the crane truck gets fixed now. Our emergency line exists for exactly that call.
What canal yards do to their cylinders
Canal yards hose their equipment down constantly, and pressure washing drives water straight past wiper seals into cylinders. Milky fluid in a Harvey truck is so common we carry water test kits on every canal call.
Harvey Canal corridor coverage
Regular routes cover the Harvey Canal, Peters Road, Lapalco Boulevard, Destrehan Avenue yards and the Westbank Expressway, with ZIP codes 70058 inside standard coverage. Pricing is identical to the rest of the metro and published in the cost guide: no zone surcharges, and the emergency call out range covers the whole service area.
Nearby crews also use our Kenner, Harahan, Metairie pages for the corridors they work across parish lines.
Harvey oilfield crane questions
Our fluid looks like coffee with milk. How bad is it?
Bad but fixable if you stop running. That is water emulsified in the oil, usually from pressure washing or a breather left open. Running on it scores pumps and rusts everything. We flush the system, change filters, and find the entry point. Waiting turns a flush into a pump rebuild.
A boat is waiting on our crane truck. How fast can you come?
Call (504) 385-9868 and say a vessel is waiting. Harvey and the canal are minutes from Kenner via the Huey P. We prioritize dock down situations the way the dock does.
Can you rebuild cylinders that work near capacity every day?
Yes, and we build them for it. Heavy duty rod material, upgraded seal compounds, and honest advice when a cylinder has been bent past saving. A rebuilt cylinder that fails under a heavy pick is not a warranty conversation we ever want, so we do not send marginal rods back out.
Do you work on marine and dock hydraulics too, or just trucks?
Trucks are the specialty, but the same bench rebuilds winch motors, davit cylinders, and dock crane components for canal customers. If it is a hydraulic component we can usually help or point you to who can.
Get a Harvey Canal repair quote
Tell us the truck and the symptom. Written quote before work starts, or call (504) 385-9868 and get it on the phone.