Rent the Crane. Keep the Support.

The machine, its erection, every climb as the building goes up, the dismantle at the end, scheduled servicing, and the certification kept current throughout. The crane's record — certificates, service history, inspections — is built in Datum and lives on the phone of anyone who needs it. You get a crane that works and paperwork that is already done.

We are. As the crane owner we carry that duty, and BC Crane Safety is explicit that on a rental the inspection findings and repairs must be filed at the crane's location for as long as it is there. That is exactly what the crane binder in Datum does — it stays with the machine, and it is there when an inspector asks.

No — the operator is yours. What comes with the crane is everything needed to get them onto it safely: a model-specific orientation for the exact machine you have on rental, at no charge, and the system your supervisors use to assess that operator and record it against the crane. Making sure an operator is competent on the machine is the employer's duty, and in BC a tower crane may only be operated by someone holding a valid operator's certificate (OHS Regulation s. 14.34.1). This is how you discharge the competency side of it, and how you have the record when someone asks for it.

No. Tell us the building, the site footprint and the pour schedule and we will tell you the crane.

A flat-top is the most economical and the quickest to erect, and it lets 2 cranes work over one another. A luffing jib raises rather than reaching out, so the load stays inside your own airspace — the usual choice downtown or beside occupied buildings. A hydraulic luffer does both: it luffs where clearance is tight and works horizontally where it is not, so 1 machine covers a job whose requirements change part way through.

Yes, and it is normal. Cranes are set at different heights so the jibs sweep past each other. The risk that has to be managed is the lower crane's jib meeting the taller crane's hoist rope and load. We supply ASCOREL anti-collision — we are the sole Canadian distributor — which slows the slew as cranes close and cuts it before contact, and fences the crane out of any airspace it must not cross.

Yes. That is zoning. Prohibited areas are programmed in when the system is calibrated, and the crane simply cannot take a load into them. It can be a footprint on the ground or a corridor with a height limit, which is how overhead lines are usually handled.

Tell us as early as you can and we will extend the rental. We track every machine's return date, so a crane coming back is not a surprise to us either.

Yes — BCS crane cameras so the operator can see the hook on a blind lift, and Canadian-built accessories: self-dumping bins, trash hoppers, floodlights and below-hook rigging. Most contractors take them on the same order as the crane.