Serving McLaren Vale & the Fleurieu
Vineyard machinery, winery walkways, tank platforms and custom equipment. When something breaks mid-vintage, it has to be fixed properly and fixed now.
About 45 minutes south
Fabrication and repair work built around the vintage calendar - not against it.
New drums, drum repairs, agitator and hydraulic motor repairs. We get your mixer fleet off the bench and back pouring.
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Custom-built skip bins to suit your truck - Marrel, hook-lift and more. Plus fast repairs on damaged bins.
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Heavy plate cutting and folding. Bring us your CAD file or your design - we cut and bend the big stuff.
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General engineering, truck body modifications, and specialist aluminium welding built to your design.
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McLaren Vale runs on a calendar that does not negotiate. Pruning, spraying, harvest, crush - each has a window, and equipment that fails inside one of those windows costs a grower or a winery far more than the repair bill suggests.
The work reflects it. Vineyard implement repairs and custom brackets through the growing season; walkways, access platforms, catwalks, tank stands, crush pad steelwork and guarding in the quieter months. And every so often, an urgent weld on a harvester at the worst possible moment.
We are about forty-five minutes north of the Vale. For planned work we will come down, measure, fabricate at Wingfield and install. For a breakdown mid-vintage, tell us it is urgent and we will treat it that way.
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Access platforms, catwalks, tank stands, crush pad steelwork, guarding and custom equipment frames.
Implement repairs, custom brackets, trailer and bin work, and replacement components built to last a season.
Tipper bodies, tray builds and truck modifications for the operators moving fruit and equipment.
At Kingpin Engineering, we’re more than just fabricators - we’re a team dedicated to setting the standard for what an engineering workshop should be. Founded by our director, the business was built on three non-negotiables: precision engineering, honest workmanship, and genuine customer care.
Kingpin Engineering started with a simple but powerful vision: to be the one workshop a customer could trust with everything - from a precision-engineered agitator drum to the one-off repairs most shops turn away. With years of hands-on experience, our founder saw firsthand how customers were bounced from supplier to supplier and let down by low standards - and knew there had to be a better way.
With that, the new standard for heavy fabrication and concrete engineering was born.
Nobody in McLaren Vale wants to hear 'sometime next fortnight' in March. Tell us where you are in the season and we will schedule accordingly - or tell you honestly if we cannot make your window.
With engineering experience built over years on the workshop floor, every job at Kingpin starts with a clear plan - so you know the scope, the spec and the timeframe before we cut a single piece of steel.
That means we deliver the utmost care on every job we take on, from a 16m³ agitator drum to a one-off repair, without ever sacrificing attention to detail.
Backed by Certification: We wear our quality with confidence. You’re trusting us with serious equipment, so the least we can do is back it - with material certificates, welding procedure documentation and Australian-Standard engineering on every build that calls for it.
One Workshop, Every Job: The big concrete OEMs won’t touch your skip bin. The bin factories won’t roll a spiral blade. We do both - plus the cutting, bending, welding and mending others turn away - under one roof, on one invoice.
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Send a photo and tell us how urgent it is. We will come back with a realistic date, not an optimistic one.
McLaren Vale is one of the areas we cover from our workshop floor. About 45 minutes south. Tap any area below to see what we build there.
