Boomworks Hydraulics rebuilds boom truck hydraulics for New Orleans from our bench in Kenner, with mobile service for the failures that will not wait for a tow.
New Orleans works its boom trucks hard. Port drayage and terminal maintenance along Napoleon Avenue and France Road, roofers flying shingles over Uptown, riggers setting rooftop units downtown, and the film industry staging set pieces all lean on truck mounted cranes, and every one of those booms lives on hydraulic pressure.
Port adjacent work adds a corrosion problem the rest of the metro does not have. Trucks that stage near the river and the Industrial Canal live in salt heavy air, and chrome rods pit faster there than anywhere else we service. A pitted rod cuts seals on every stroke, so port fleets reseal more often unless the rods are kept coated and stowed.
Getting a repair truck to a job inside the city is its own skill. We run mobile service into Orleans Parish daily and know which terminals gate us in quickly. For downtown work we schedule around load windows so your crane is not blocking a lane while we bleed a circuit.
The high ticket work here is full system rebuilds on older port and construction cranes: pump, valve bank, and cylinders done together so the machine leaves with one warranty instead of three unresolved leaks.
Working on booms inside the port
Terminal operators at the port measure downtime in vessel hours, not truck hours. When a terminal crane truck goes down during a working vessel we have brought the rebuild bench to the truck, swapped in exchange cylinders, and finished the original units afterward.
Orleans Parish coverage
Regular routes cover the Port of New Orleans, Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal, France Road, the Industrial Canal, Tchoupitoulas Street and Almonaster Avenue, with ZIP codes 70112, 70113, 70114, 70115, 70117, 70118, 70119, 70122, 70126, 70129, 70130 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.
New Orleans crane hydraulic questions
Can you service trucks inside the Port of New Orleans?
Yes. We run mobile service to the Napoleon Avenue and France Road areas regularly and can coordinate gate access with your terminal. For working vessels we prioritize the call like the emergency it is.
Why do our rods pit so fast near the river?
Salt air. Moisture plus salt attacks chrome plating, and every pit becomes a knife edge that cuts seal packing on each stroke. Stowing cylinders when parked and fixing weeps early slows it down. Once pitting starts, rechroming or a new rod is the real fix.
What does a full system rebuild cost on an older crane truck?
Pump, valve bank, and cylinders together typically run $5,000 to $10,000 depending on the machine. It sounds like a lot until you price a replacement crane body, which starts around ten times that.
Do you do the hydraulic side of annual crane inspections?
We do the repairs that inspections flag and the documentation that inspectors want to see. OSHA requires annual inspection of these cranes, and leak down or drift findings usually land on a cylinder or holding valve we can rebuild.
Quote a New Orleans rebuild
Tell us the truck and the symptom. Written quote before work starts, or call (504) 385-9868 and get it on the phone.