Forklift & Telehandler Repair in Edmonton

The mast is where a forklift does its work and where the wear shows. Lift chains stretch with use and have to be measured rather than eyeballed; mast channels, rollers and bearings wear and make a load hunt and shudder on the way up; the carriage, the backrest and the hoses and sheaves that run up the mast all take a beating. Forks themselves are a wear item people forget — heel wear thins the steel where the blade meets the shank, and a cracked or thinned fork is the failure nobody wants to see happen with a load in the air. We measure chains and forks, service the mast and carriage, and repair side-shifts and fork positioners.

Hydraulics are the second half of it. A mast that settles under load, lifts slowly, or drifts down on its own usually means worn cylinder seals or a control valve passing internally rather than a dead pump — and the cheap causes get checked first. We repair pumps, control valves, lift and tilt cylinders, hoses and fittings, and the auxiliary circuits that run attachments. On telehandlers the same systems are bigger and add the boom: extend and retract cylinders, boom wear pads that need shimming before they gouge the boom sections, the quick attach, stabilizers, and frame levelling.

Engines come in three flavours and each fails its own way. Propane forklifts live and die by the fuel system — regulators, vaporizers and lock-off valves that cause hard starting, stalling and poor running, plus the tank and its fittings. Diesels bring the Tier 4 problem in its worst form: a lift truck that spends the day idling and lifting never gets the exhaust hot enough to regenerate, so soot loads up and the machine derates. Electrics are a battery-and-charger business — a pack that will not hold a shift, a charger that will not start, corroded connectors, contactors and controllers — and in an unheated Edmonton warehouse or an outdoor yard, cold makes all of it worse.

Underneath, it is drivetrain and chassis work: powershift and hydrostatic transmissions, torque converters, drive axles and differentials, wet and drum brakes, park brakes, and the rear steer axle with its kingpins and bushings that goes vague and wandery when it wears. Tires get checked as part of any service, because a forklift on flat-spotted or chunked-out cushion tires beats the rest of the machine apart, and on rough-terrain units and telehandlers the four-wheel-steer modes and the axles that carry them are their own job.

We come to you. Forklifts, telehandlers, manlifts, loaders, skid steers, backhoes and other heavy equipment all get mobile service — at your warehouse, your yard or the job site, rather than a trailer ride across the city. For a forklift that is down in the middle of a shift that is usually the difference between losing an afternoon and losing a day. Tell us the machine, the fault and any code on the display when you call, and we will tell you straight whether it is a job we can finish on site or one that has to come into the shop.

Equipment work runs $150 to $230 an hour and we confirm the rate for your machine when you book; diagnosis is billed at the same rate. Parts are quoted separately before anything is ordered, and for masts, booms and attachments we order by the machine's serial number, because the same model takes different parts from year to year. Telehandlers are heavy-duty work. Rental fleets, yards and contractors with more than one machine can set up a commercial account.