How to Save 800k on 25k Invested
Why are you Renting Crane Loading Platforms?
Renting a Crane Loading Platform is one of those things contractors do, but I don’t know that many people know why. The why is logistical. Decks were largely fixed until the 90’s when retractable decks became a thing. One of the companies that rented them had the realization that renting them keeps the money moving longer. So they stopped the sales and tried to buy back most of those they had previously sold. The disparity in revenues from renting versus sales is stark. If a Retractable Crane Loading Platform is renting for $2200 a month, a rental company can generate $26,400 a year for them. Over 30 years, this can add up to about $800,000 in revenues per deck. I’m offering to sell them for $21,000 and shipping. It’s these numbers that have driven us to a market that doesn’t sell retractable crane loading platforms. We are the disrupter to that business model.
Highest Capacity Retractable Decks on the Market
Our Retractable Crane Loading Platforms are the highest capacity decks available. Some companies use superlatives to describe theirs, then they deliver about half of our capacity at the full extension. We just let the chart tell the story. At 17’ of outboard reach we deliver 11,000 lbs of capacity at the center of the deck. When it comes to Retractable Crane Loading Platforms, that is the highest number I’ve ever seen. If you are a structural concrete contractor, you can grab a double stack of shores and jump them to the working deck instead of grabbing one at a time because you only have 5500 lbs of capacity with the rental decks.
Seventeen Feet of Outboard Reach is a Huge Advantage
Our 17’ of reach is on part with other retractable crane loading platforms. Ours are balanced enough that they easily roll in and out with just one person. This isn’t the case with all other options. Some will require two people. More than that, our reach enables you to keep the crane away from the formwork on the working deck, an away from nets. In many cases you can leave your nets out and get around them with our 17’ of outboard reach.
Look at the space left between the forms are our decks in this picture.
Pretty hard to reach the deck past the obstacles
Affording just a few feet past the formwork slows down crane operations. We will deliver more reach than this to speed up your operations.
Reach Delivers More Than Convenience
Having the longer reach isn’t just about it being easy to do the job. If I came to you and said, “Boy, the day would be much easier on the crane crew if you gave them those few feet for $100,000 of expense.”, I would not be making any sense to a contractor. If we stop and look at costs, then we can work out the value in added reach. A tower crane and crew will run over $500 per hour. Let’s use $500 as the number. If you are running a large luffer in NYC, this number might be $1200 per hour. If you own the crane and you are in Alabama, that cost might be $350. So $500 is a round number to work with. It’s $8 per minute and change. If you have a load you have to bring down close to the signalperson then walk it in, you might lose 40 seconds. $5.50 cents is that cost. If you do this 40 times per floor, that $220 per floor. Or $8800 on a 40 story project. This is just one dynamic in the operations and the savings.
Capacity Delivers More Than Convenience
Another aspect that delivers savings is in the capacity. If you are jumping one stillage or barella of gear at a time, that’s time spent rigging it up and flying it one at a time. If our capacity enables you to jump two or four at a time, that savings starts running into minutes per stillage rack. If we presumed 40 units (varies by floor size) and we save 3 minutes by cutting out one cycle, that’s $500 of crane time saved per floor which is probably way low as an estimate. Over the course of 40 floors, that’s $20,000 in savings on crane time. Are we up to nearly $29,000 in crane savings with these two advantages? The benefits of changing the crane operation times is dramatic in your budget. This doesn’t even consider impacts on not needing as much overtime. These are just the straight time impacts. On a 40 story project, living with items that slow down your crane operations gets very expensive very quickly.
Advertise Your Name & Not the Rental Company
Have you ever met a General Contractor that didn’t want it’s name known? Isn’t that exactly what happens when we rent equipment with the name of others on it? If you purchase a Crane Loading Platform from us, we can put your name on it. We can powder coat in your colors and put your name on it. When I was in tower cranes it was common for GC’s to spend 12k on signs and another 3-4k on mounting them on the crane. What if we can deliver virtually the same result for under $1000? We’ll powder coat in your chosen colors and you print out the vinyl sticker of your logo. If you wanted to go to a lighted sign, you can easily hang it on the handrails as well.
Get the Deck in your colors to make your logo pop.
The Benefits of Ownership
If the saving of rents that total 800k over 30 years isn’t enough, I would hope that having the right tool for the job to maximize the tool that delivers the project (the tower crane) would become the sales point that stands out for you. If you live with a deck that slows you down, you’ll spend about as much on one project in crane time as you will for the right deck. On a per project basis, having the wrong tool you live with is not the right choice. If you look at your work on a longer basis, it really becomes a financially untenable position that you should live with what you rent or own. The compounding loses are dramatic. We should help you solve it with one of our many options.
Retractable, Fixed, Welded or Bolted. We Deliver Options
Our decks range in sizes from 7’ wide to 13’-7” wide. We deliver them in a welded or bolted version. The bolted versions save on logistics in the intial delivery and in the trucking between units throughout the life of the deck. If you can break it all down to 8’ wide parts, then you don’t need an oversized truck to deliver. It’s even possible on a 3/4 ton truck with a 22’ trailer to deliver one of our bolted together crane loading platforms. Due to the shipping costs, it’s sometimes even less expensive to purchase one 13’-7” deck than it is to purchase one 10’-7” wide welded deck. But if you prefer a bolted deck, welded, fixed outrigger deck, or retractable option, we can cover you at CraneGear.net. Come visit our page over there or reach out at sales@cranegear.net today and let’s get your decks moving today.
