Posted in: Crane Rentals Atlanta, Crane Rentals Georgia, Georgia Crane Service, Uncategorized, By: counterweight, At: December 1st, 2009
If you believe in the old adage “Watch your pennies and your dollars will take care of themselves”, this is the crane for you. With a thirty ton lifting capacity and a ninety foot side reach, it can definitely help maximize your lifting dollar. Based in Marietta and serving the entire Atlanta area, we utilize this boom truck for rooftop air units, trees, tanks, container unloading, you name it. It is an excellent steel erector and truss setter, fast on the highway and quick to set up. You pay for more lifting and less travel and set-up time! To put this crane and one of our expert operators on your job call 678-848-6386.
Posted in: Crane Rentals Atlanta, Crane Rentals Georgia, Georgia Crane Service, By: zane, At: September 11th, 2009
SS Crane & Rigging Corporation specializes in providing cranes by the hour to lift anything in the Atlanta and North Georgia area. We’ll send you a crane for one lift or a dozen. Our cranes are ’street legal’, so they are always ready to go, and we furnish the machine driven to your place and operated by an expert.
We lift air conditioners across rooftops from Rome and Cartersville to Canton and Woodstock, we lift tanks and stand them from Dalton to Marietta, and we also set pumps at water plants, transformers for power companies… its a long list.
You can call us anytime to order a crane to meet your crew, you name the time and the place! Meanwhile, please browse the site… it is packed with information on cranes, the lifting business, the operator’s concerns…
This site is written for our customer, the end user, the guy who has a job to do. We intend to help get that job done, whether through a good machine arriving on time with a helpful operator or just an easy place to find information related to the task at hand… LIFTING!
Posted in: Uncategorized, By: counterweight, At: August 6th, 2009
Posted in: Crane Operations, Crane Rentals Atlanta, Crane Rentals Georgia, Georgia Crane Service, By: counterweight, At: January 24th, 2009
A crane load rating in ‘tons’ is an ultimate test load used to roughly classify or ‘group’ machines.
For example: A new 100 ton crane has been tested by the manufacturer to lift the 200,000 lbs at an 8 foot radius. This doesn’t tell you a whole lot about how much it’ll pick out there over the roof of the hospital.
That same 100 ton crane will only lift about 10,000 lbs if you have to place the load, let’s say, on a four story building, sixty feet back from the edge of the roof.
The important thing to remember, for your pocketbook, is that if you change any of three critical parameters, you change the crane requirements. A quick example: You can place that 10,000 lb load on that four story building with a 40 ton crane all day long if the load only has to go 20′ back from the edge of the roof.
As you can see, changing one critical parameter made the difference from a $3000.00 crane bill to a $500.00 bill…$2500.00 stays in your pocket because of one ‘little’ measurement!
For crane rentals in Atlanta give us a call at 678-848-6386. Our operators can tell you exactly how much the crane will safely lift for you.
Here’s what we’ll need to know:
1) You have a fairly level solid place to set up your crane with outriggers extended.
2) Where the aerial obstructions are. Booms are fairly straight so there needs to be a clear operating area at least 40′ high extending from your set-up site to around 30′ above your load placement spot. The edge of a building is a typical obstruction. Carefully measure in three places: (1) Feet from the edge of the building to the center of the spot where the load is to be set in place; (2) Feet from the edge of the crane setup area to the wall of the building, and; (3) Feet from the ground level of the setup area to the top edge of the building that the boom must clear. These critical measurements take about five minutes at the job site and/or can often be done from the drawings.
3) How much the load you are lifting weighs! We work just as well with pounds or kilograms.