Spider Crane Rental in Fort Lauderdale
When the job is inside a building, behind a gate, or in a courtyard a boom truck will never reach, the 2-ton spider crane goes where the big iron cannot.
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The spider fits through a standard 36-inch gate, tracks across finished floors on rubber pads, and sets its own outriggers once it gets where it is going. We have run it inside atriums, through side yards and across plaza decks, including indoor glass work at MiamiCentral.
It is the machine that turns a "that cannot be craned" job into a normal Tuesday. Glass panels, HVAC in a mechanical room, statuary, equipment swaps in a basement plant room, hot tubs into a screened patio.
- Machine
- 2-ton mini spider crane
- Minimum gate width
- 36 inches
- Surfaces
- Rubber tracks, spread pads
- Also on both
- Boom trucks up to 40 ton
Where the spider earns its money
- Indoor and atrium workGlass, fixtures and equipment inside a finished building without tearing out a wall.
- Gated side yardsIf a person can walk it, the spider can usually track it.
- Finished surfacesRubber tracks and spread pads instead of a 30,000 lb truck on your pavers.
- Elevated decks and plazasWhere load ratings rule out anything bigger.
Working in Fort Lauderdale
Fort Lauderdale is close enough that we can often get there the same day, and varied enough that no two jobs look alike. Downtown and Las Olas are mid and high-rise work with loading-zone coordination, while a few blocks away Victoria Park and Rio Vista are narrow historic streets with big shade trees and driveways a boom truck has to be threaded into.
The waterfront adds its own category. This is a marine city, and we get asked for lifts over seawalls, onto docks and around canal-front properties where the crane sets up on one side of a very expensive piece of landscaping and reaches over it.
Beach-side condo work is mostly AC and generator sets on decks, and it almost always needs a booked window with building management. Tell us the building name when you call and we will tell you what the setup usually involves.
Want the full rundown? Read the spider crane rental page, or see everything we lift in Fort Lauderdale.
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