like telehandlers, roughterrain cranes, and mobile cranes, particularly where space it tight.”
Stalter noted that besides reducing crew size, a selferector often can boost productivity by being able to reach an entire project site from one spot and by being able to place materials right at the point of use rather than just over a roof parapet.
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Jayko Crane, Orem, Utah, rents boom trucks and selferecting tower cranes to customers throughout the Intermountain West.
It also can provide customers with crane-related services like delivery, setup, moving, maintenance, accessories and certified training.
President Brandon Lloyd said that although Jayko serves a range of customers, the largest category of selferector users is wood framers.
“ A lot of buildings being built in Utah have one or two levels of concrete parking ramp topped by three to four levels of wood-framed commercial space and multi-family housing,” Lloyd said.“ Self-erecting cranes are very efficient for that.”
One cornerstone of Jayko’ s fleet is a Saez HT47 self erector it bought through Creative Lifting Services.
“ We like that you can add sections to the HT47’ s mast to make it taller when a job calls for it, and also that the crane can be transported with its full 154-foot jib installed and folded up,” said Lloyd.
Capital Framing LLC, Greensburg, Kentucky, specializes in wood framing for multi-story commercial, mixed-use and educational buildings, as well
Jayko Crane’ s rental fleet includes the Saez HT47 shown at front left. The crane features a 154-foot jib, 125-foot under-hook height, 13,200-pound maximum capacity and 3,000-pound capacity at a 154-foot radius. as multi-family housing.
Aaron Detweiler, who coowns the company with his father, says Capital Framing’ s 50 carpenters work mainly in central and northern Kentucky but also do projects in Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee.
The company owns a Potain Igo T 50 self-erector that Detweiler says is busy“ almost continuously.” Capital Framing bought the unit from Compass Equipment.
“ We always have several projects going at once,” said Detweiler.“ We use a small rough-terrain crane on many of them, but for jobs that stand four or more stories tall or are 60 or more feet deep, the self-erecting crane is the best solution.”
He added that the crane is amazingly reliable and that its built-in safeguards protect both the machine and the operator.
“ I also like that the wireless controls always let operators be where they can see the load,” said Detweiler.
ACS is an employee-owned wood-framing contractor that builds primarily multifamily projects in Arizona and California.
Its average project has about 250 units and covers about 300,000 square feet.
“ We go as high as five levels of wood framing over four levels of concrete,” said Tyler Mussro, director of construction.“ For buildings of three stories or less, we mostly use telehandlers, but where we don’ t have ground-level access to all four sides or when the
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