When To Consider Crane Truck Hire For Your Home Project

Image of Cope Crane Trucks lowering a hydro pool with a Hiab truck mounted crane.

If you aren’t in the construction of fabrication industries, it’s likely you’ve only come across crane trucks in passing. While they’re useful for transporting bulky items like trusses, generators or large signs, crane truck hire can be equally useful for domestic purposes and everyday households.

In fact, hiring a crane truck is often the safest, most time-effective method to pick-up, transport and install large, heavy or bulky household items.

Below we’ll consider six occasions where you should consider hiring a crane truck.

When should I consider crane truck hire?

Crane trucks offer safe and effective lifting solutions for a range of materials and products. While a crane truck may come to mind for large items like spas and water tanks, they’re useful for so much more than that.

As a rule of thumb, crane truck hire should be considered if the product or material in mind:

Is too large or delicate to carry and lift in place with just a few people
Needs to be lifted onto a roof or tall structure
Needs to be installed in a location with tight access.

In Australia, far too many injuries occur from lifting, pushing or pulling. Manual labour can be extremely hazardous whether it’s on the clock or in your backyard.

Rather than taking a risk and putting yourself, friends or family in danger, crane truck hire can ensure everyone is safe, making the installation process easy and quick.

Crane truck hire for air conditioning units

While you won’t need a crane truck to transport and install every air conditioning unit, crane trucks can streamline the installation process for units that are larger than normal, or are required to be installed either on a roof or at a height taller than the first storey.

Crane trucks take out the hassle of having to haul an air conditioning unit using manpower, and ensures no one needs to be put in a hazardous position.

As you can operate crane trucks from a distance, no one is required to stand directly under an air conditioning unit, or bear its weight for a lengthy period of time.

Cope Crane Trucks lifts spa into backyard with Hiab truck mounted crane.

Crane truck hire for spas and hydro-pools

If you’ve recently purchased a spa or hydro-pool and the retailer or seller doesn’t offer delivery and installation, you should consider hiring a crane truck.

Not only will a crane truck operator be able to pick up your newly purchased spa or hydro-pool, but they’ll be able to transport and lower it in your location of choice.

Crane truck hire for sculptures

Sculptures can be deceptively heavy and delicate depending on the material they’re made from.

Rather than risking damaging your recently purchased sculpture by attempting to carry it yourself, let a crane truck operator take the stress and hazard out of the equation.

Crane truck hire for solar panels

While solar panels aren’t the heaviest household item, where they’re required to be installed may come with some complications.

If you have a two or even three-storied home, you should consider crane truck hire to streamline the solar panel installation process.

This is especially important if the solar panels you’re installing are bulky or long and awkward to carry.

Crane truck hire for retaining walls

If you’re looking to build a retaining wall on your property, you may want to consider crane truck hire when it comes to delivering your materials like steel uprights and timber and concrete sleepers.

A crane truck operator can make the delivery and installation of your materials swift and easy, especially when access is tight.

Crane truck hire for sheds

If you’ve bought a pre-built shed and you’re considering dis-assembling it for transport, a crane truck can pick-up, transport and lift your shed into location in one piece, saving hours out of dis-assembly and re-assembly.

Or, if you’ve purchased a kit shed where you’d need to lift in steel uprights, roof trusses, roof sheets, installation of heavy roller doors and gates, a crane truck operator can be instrumental during the building process.

Is crane truck hire worth it?

In short, yes, crane truck hire is worth it. It is often the safest, most secure option that takes the stress, hassle and time out of transport and installation.

Not only can a crane truck operator access hard-to-reach places, but they can also shave off hours from the installation process simply by lowering your material or product in place.

If you are looking for a reliable crane truck operator to assist you in your next household project, contact us today.