Explore the main types of cranes and lifting equipment we run across Colorado. Plain-English guides to the boom truck, rough terrain crane, all terrain crane, crawler cranes, and more — so you know what each machine does before you rent.
Most crews pick by tonnage and pay for it later. See how ground, access, and staging really choose between mobile crane sizes, and when pick and carry cranes save you a whole second setup on site.
A bigger crane is not a safer crane. It is a slower, costlier one until the chart says otherwise. What a mobile crane on a truck chassis clears, and where a rough terrain crane earns the difference.
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