A truck-mounted crane is a very good tool with a clear edge to it. Here is where the edge is.
Heavy at long radius
The whole thing in one line. Ten tonnes at five metres is straightforward. Ten tonnes at fifteen is not a lorry crane job on anything we run, and it is not a lorry crane job on anything anybody runs. That is a mobile crane.
Above about twenty metres of height
Our cranes lift to between eighteen and twenty-two metres. That covers a house, a two-storey building, most flat roofs and a lot of industrial buildings. It does not cover the fourth floor of anything, and it does not cover placing plant on a tall roof.
Anything that needs to be held still for a long time
Lorry cranes are for picking up, moving and putting down. A job where something has to hang while it is bolted, aligned or grouted for an hour is a job for a machine designed to do that, with the appropriate duty rating.
Where the vehicle cannot stand
Obvious but worth saying. A crane that cannot deploy its outriggers on ground that will take them is not a crane. If the only standing position is a lawn over a soakaway, there is no crane on our fleet that fixes that.
People
Never. A lorry crane does not lift people, in any basket, under any circumstances. If somebody needs to be at height, that is a MEWP.
What we will tell you instead
If your job is a mobile crane job we will say so, usually with a rough idea of what size. The customer who was told that in March tends to ring back in June with something that does suit us.
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