Tasmanian Hose Solutions

14/10/2026

🔧 WE'RE HIRING — EARLY 2027!

We're growing at Tasmanian Hose Solutions, and we're putting the feelers out for the right person to join our team!

We're a small, family-owned business based in Cambridge, Tasmania, offering a hands-on role covering hydraulic hose assembly, warehousing, sales and customer service.

No hydraulic experience? No problem. We'll teach you.

What we're really looking for is someone who:

✅ Has a strong work ethic
✅ Takes pride in doing things properly
✅ Pays attention to detail
✅ Is reliable, honest and willing to learn
✅ Enjoys hands-on work and dealing with people

A forklift licence is highly desirable, or you'll need to be willing and eligible to obtain one.

This is an opportunity to learn new skills and grow with a business that's expanding. For the right person, there's genuine potential to take on greater responsibility down the track.

📍 Cambridge, Tasmania
📅 Anticipated start: Early 2027

Interested? Register your interest here:

👉 https://www.tasmanianhosesolutions.com.au/pages/careers-register-your-interest

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We can teach you how to make a hydraulic hose. We can't teach you to give a damn.

07/10/2026

**THAT’S FU**ED — EPISODE 5 💥**

One fitting completely ejected.
The other halfway there.
And the hose blown as well.

We were told this high-flow attachment had been operated on the wrong machine setting, effectively closing the hydraulic circuit.

But when a fitting blows clean out, there’s something else we’re checking too — **the hose assembly itself.**

The crimp measurement? Interesting.
The fitting combination? Even more interesting.

Can we say exactly what caused this failure from what we've got? No.

Can we say the whole thing is fu**ed?

Absolutely. 😂

18/09/2026

Keep replacing quick couplings on your rock breaker? There’s another option. 🔨

Standard flat face quick couplings have their place — but hydraulic breakers are a brutal, high-impulse application.

Screw-together flat face couplings are designed for this type of work. They positively screw together, handle the punishment of breaker circuits and still give you the benefits of a flat face connection.

You don’t have to use them. You don’t have to buy them.

But if you run a breaker, you should at least know they exist.

We’ve put together a 1/2" VEP-P Breaker Coupling Upgrade, with BSP, NPT and SAE/UNO thread options.

For a limited time:
2 sets — SAVE 20%
3 sets — SAVE 25%
4 sets — SAVE 30%
5 sets — SAVE 35%
6+ sets — SAVE 40%
Discount automatically applied in cart.

Offer ends 19 October 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.



https://www.tasmanianhosesolutions.com.au/collections/hydraulic-quick-couplings-2/products/1-2-vep-p-screw-together-flat-face-hydraulic-coupling-set-breaker-couplings

16/09/2026

HYDRAULIC TIPS | EPISODE 6
FLAT FACE WON’T CONNECT? HERE’S THE FIX.

Our last video explained why your flat face couplings can suddenly become almost impossible to connect.

Trapped pressure.

So this time, we’re showing you the solution.

Connect Under Pressure flat face couplings are designed to connect even when residual pressure is trapped in the attachment hoses.

* No cracking fittings.
* No getting the spanners out.
* No fighting the bloody thing just to get your attachment connected.

And for the next 30 days, we’re running volume discounts from 15% up to 40% — because once you put these on one attachment, chances are you’ll want them on the rest.

👇 Available here:
https://www.tasmanianhosesolutions.com.au/collections/hydraulic-quick-couplings-2/products/1-2-connect-under-pressure-flat-face-coupling-set

Tag the bloke who always ends up reaching for the spanners.

⚠️ Running a rock breaker? Hold off.
That’s the next video.

1/2" ISO 16028 flat face hydraulic coupling set with APM male and A-HD female. Connect with trapped residual pressure. Male face measures 24.5mm.

13/09/2026

THAT’S FU**ED — EPISODE 4 🔥

At first glance, someone’s brazed a hydraulic hose fitting.

But brazing itself isn’t necessarily the fu**ed part.

This particular 90° is a live swivel — it’s designed to continue swivelling even after the fitting is installed. That can be bloody useful in tight applications where hose orientation and movement matter.

This one? Brazed solid.

Why? We don’t know.

The fitting also appeared to be bent, so our guess is it may have been leaking or damaged and somebody brazed it up as a temporary repair to get the machine through the job.

But that’s exactly what it is — our guess based on what was in front of us.

What we do know is the correct replacement was an off-the-shelf fitting for us, and the customer was back out the door with a new hose in under 10 minutes.

Hose fitters — what do you reckon happened here?

06/09/2026

Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. 💚

Apparently around here, Dad is 4 years old, loves to sleep, and when he goes to work he “fixes and makes hoses.” 😂

Hard to argue with that.

A little Father’s Day artwork from my daughter that seemed particularly appropriate for the Tasmanian Hose Solutions page.

To all the dads working hard, raising families, teaching the next generation and just doing their best every day — Happy Father’s Day.

Hope you get a chance to put the tools down and enjoy the day with the people who matter most.

Happy Father’s Day from Tasmanian Hose Solutions.

04/09/2026

THAT'S FU**ED — EPISODE 3

This one's a perfect example of why the little things matter when making a hydraulic hose assembly.

The fitting simply wasn't inserted far enough into the hose before it was crimped.

Could've been rushed. Could've been sitting correctly and slipped back before the crimp. We don't know.

What we do know is why insertion depth is methodically checked before an assembly leaves the workshop.

Easy mistake? Yep.
Potentially expensive result? Yep.

That's fu**ed? Damn straight. 😂

24/08/2026

THAT’S FU**ED! EPISODE 2 — THE TOW STRAP 😂

This hydraulic hose briefly got promoted to tow strap.

The operator simply forgot to disconnect one hose before taking off with the trailer.

Easy mistake. Spectacular result.

And no, we're not hanging s**t on the bloke — anyone who's spent enough time around machinery knows these things happen.

But the hose?

Yeah… that's fu**ed. 😂

19/08/2026

**4 months down to 2 weeks.**

2" hose. 5,000 PSI. Stainless steel ends.

Not exactly something you'll find sitting on the shelf — and there aren't many options for an assembly like this in Australia.

Working with Vitillo, we had these manufactured specifically for our customer's application, flown into Australia and road freighted down to Tasmania.

From manufacture to supply: **around two weeks.**

When the application matters, the cost of getting it here quickly becomes pretty insignificant compared with waiting months for a replacement.

**Built to last, delivered fast.**

18/08/2026

THAT’S FU**ED! IS BACK. 🔧

Some of you might remember this one…

Looks like a bush repair that has seen a few attempts at stopping a leak. Different fittings, welded together — followed by a bit more weld for good measure.

We don't know the circumstances, and if this got a machine home or kept someone working, it may have done exactly what was needed at the time.
But once it's back in the workshop?

Time for a proper repair.

A temporary repair might get you home. It shouldn't become the permanent repair.

EPISODE 1 | TAKE 2