GS Crane · Construction Cranes
Almost everyone rings and opens with a tonnage. It is the least useful thing you can tell us. What decides the job is whether the machine can get in, what it will be standing on, and how far it has to reach once it is set up.
Both are quoted off the same line. The full pages list what each one lifts and the access each one needs.
The one that fits down a housing-estate road. Smaller radius, far easier to set up on a tight lot.
Per day, or half-day for a single lift
The unit that goes out when the load is above a lorry crane and the site still has to stay open.
Per day, or per hour with a mobilisation charge
| Compare | 7-tonne mobile crane | 20-tonne mobile crane |
|---|---|---|
| Reach for it when | The one that fits down a housing-estate road. Smaller radius, far easier to set up on a tight lot. | The unit that goes out when the load is above a lorry crane and the site still has to stay open. |
| The site it suits | Landed housing, estate roads and tight lots — anywhere a bigger machine has nowhere to turn or nowhere to sit. | Building sites and industrial slabs that have to carry on working while the lift happens around them. |
| How the hire is quoted | Per day, or half-day for a single lift | Per day, or per hour with a mobilisation charge |
| Everything it lifts | Full page for the 7-tonne mobile crane | Full page for the 20-tonne mobile crane |
If you are not sure after this, ring it through. Describing the site over the phone takes two minutes and settles it.
Have these to hand and the price comes back on the same call. Miss the ground condition and it comes back as a site visit instead.
How the crane gets in and where it stands once it is there. Road width, gate width, overhead cables, and whether anything is parked on the approach.
What the outriggers will be standing on. A finished slab, compacted hardcore and soft backfill are three different set-ups, and a drain or a basement under the pad changes it again.
The heaviest single piece, not the total for the day. A delivery of forty trusses is priced off one truss.
How far it is from where the crane sits to where the load has to land. Distance eats capacity faster than weight does, so this decides which of the two goes out.
The day, and whether it is one lift or a full day of them. Half a day for a single truss set is a different job from a week of precast.
The other half of the business
A lift usually needs the material there first. The same dispatcher books the beds that bring it: crusher run and spoil on the tipper, pallets on the curtain-sider, boxes and plant on the prime mover and trailers.
