SnapDog Heavy Mechanical is a mobile heavy diesel mechanic working across Western Australia. Ring any hour, any day.
24/7 breakdown line is open
Civil. Mining. Agriculture. Road transport.
Neither can an excavator with its track chain off. So the workshop travels. SnapDog is a heavy diesel mechanic who works where the machine stopped: on the pad, in the pit, in the paddock or at the depot gate.
Trucks and trailers, earthmoving equipment, hydraulics and diagnostics. Done on site wherever the job allows, and planned carefully when a component has to go to a bench.
One number to ring: 0478 754 694
Night shift, public holiday, last week of seeding. A machine stops when it stops, so the line stays open all hours. Ring, tell us what it is doing and where it is sitting, and a mechanic heads your way with the tooling to diagnose and fix it on the spot.
The calls we get: won't start, lost drive, running hot, hydraulic line gone, track off.
Scheduled servicing at the machine's own site, so it is not booked into a queue and lost for days. Fluids and filters, belts and pulleys, greasing, and a proper look over the machine while we are under it.
On the job list: loaders, skid steers, excavators, trucks and the hydraulics that run them.
A weeping gasket or a cylinder head. A hub overhaul or a differential out and stripped. We repair what is in front of us and tell you plainly what we found, whether the job takes an hour or a week.
Recent work: Hino head, Hydrema 922 differential, axle hubs, rocker gear, track undercarriage.
When a project or a fleet needs a mechanic on hand, we get to site and keep the machines working. Daily checks, repairs between shifts, and the small jobs fixed before they turn into big ones.
Built for: civil crews on a program, pits that run all hours, depots with trucks to turn around.
Excavators with tracks off, skid steers, rollers and wheel loaders on subdivisions, roads and pads. A civil crew runs to a program, so a machine down is a gang standing around. We come to the job and fix the diesel and hydraulic side where the machine sits.
Excavators, skid steers, rollers, wheel loaders, dozers
Engines, gearboxes, differentials and axles from the big yellow iron, and the support fleet around it. Mine sites run all hours, so breakdown cover runs all hours too.
Haul trucks, loaders, excavators, support fleet
Seeding and harvest do not wait for a workshop booking. Loaders, tractors and farm trucks get fixed in the paddock or the shed, with the mechanic coming to you rather than the machine going to town.
Tractors, loaders, skid steers, farm trucks
Rigid and heavy trucks, trailers and the axles under them. Head work on a Hino, trailer axle ends stripped for inspection, and breakdowns at the depot or the yard where the truck is sitting.
Rigid trucks, prime movers, trailers, axles
Every call-out starts with this Land Cruiser. The canopy is fitted out with drawers and lockers, there are lights for night work, and the number is on the side so you can pick it out across a busy site.
Look for the bulldog. 0478 754 694 is on the canopy.
Photos from SnapDog's own job record. No stock images and no re-enactments, just what the work looked like while it was happening.
Valve gear exposed, head on the bench, springs and retainers sorted, valve train going back in. Five frames from one job.
As found
Head on the bench, valves lifted
Bare head face
Springs and retainers sorted
Valve train going back in
Out of the machine, carried on the forks, stripped on the bench. The gear train and clutch pack laid bare.
Diff out of the machine
Axle assembly on the forks
On the bench
Clutch pack and gear train
Civil, mining, road transport and the rig itself. Real frames from real jobs, with no stock photography. Tap one to enlarge it.
On a civil site with a Volvo excavator
Skid steer track and undercarriage
Hairline crack found in a cast housing
Alongside a dump truck at a mine site
Hino head, as found
Track off an excavator, gas cart ready
Hydrema 922 differential, stripped
The number and the bulldog, side on
Engine lifted clear of the chassis
Excavator track chain laid out
Water pump on a red-block diesel
Canopy up at last light
Axle hub overhaul on the bench
Two undercarriage frames on the shop floor
Valve train going back in
Belt drive and pulleys under a yellow machine
The rig goes where the machine is. Perth and the metro area, the Wheatbelt, the Goldfields, the Pilbara and everywhere in between. Tell us where it is sitting and we will tell you straight how long it takes to reach you.
The fastest way to a mechanic is a phone call. If you cannot talk, or you are in a pocket of the pit with no signal, text the details instead.
0478 754 694Yes. The breakdown service runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If a machine has stopped, ring 0478 754 694.
Anywhere in Western Australia. Distance changes how we plan the trip, not whether we take the call. Tell us where the machine is sitting and we will tell you straight how long it takes to reach you.
Make and model, what the machine is doing or not doing, and where it is. A pin or a landmark is perfect. If it is safe to approach, a photo by text helps us bring the right parts and tools.
That is the aim, and it is how most jobs are done. If a component has to go to a bench, we say so early and plan the quickest route back to a working machine.
No. Field servicing, minor and major repairs and site support are all part of the work. Scheduled servicing on your own site catches problems before they stop the job.
Trucks and trailers and earthmoving equipment, plus the loaders, tractors and farm trucks that keep agriculture moving. Diesel engines, drivelines, hydraulics and diagnostics are the core of the work.
