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Gantry Cranes & Hoists

Portable overhead lifting that rolls where the job is, adjustable steel gantries, hoists, and trolleys, no permanent crane install required.

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Gantry Cranes & Hoists

Portable Gantry Cranes for Overhead Lifting Without the Building Work

A gantry crane is a freestanding steel A-frame on its own legs and casters, it does the job of a jib or bridge crane without tying into a wall, column, or ceiling. Roll it to the lift, pick the load, roll it to the next one. That makes it the fastest way to add overhead lifting to a bay, dock, or work cell that was never built with a fixed crane in mind.

Frames come adjustable-height (knockdown, so the whole unit breaks down for storage or a move between sites) or fixed at one height and span for a dedicated lift point. Pair either with an electric or manual hoist, a trolley for positioning under the beam, and the rigging hardware, beam clamps, controls, to finish the pick. Because capacity is rated on the frame, hoist, and trolley together and freight on steel gantries runs heavy, this is a quote category: send your lift weight, height, and reach, and we spec the whole rig as one system.

Adjustable Steel or Fixed Frame, Matched to the Lift

Adjustable or Fixed

Adjustable Steel or Fixed Frame, Matched to the Lift

Adjustable gantries pin or bolt to a range of heights and spans, so one frame covers a pallet lift today and a taller machine pull tomorrow, then knocks down flat when the job's done. Fixed steel gantries skip the adjustment hardware for a simpler, more rigid structure set at one height and span, the right call when the lift point doesn't change from job to job.

Casters decide where the gantry can actually go. V-groove casters ride a track or rail for the same straight-line move, load after load, built for a repeated path, not general floor travel. Pneumatic casters roll on rubber, air- or foam-filled tires that shrug off cracked concrete, gravel, and outdoor grade, the pick for yards, older slabs, or anywhere the floor isn't dead flat.

Applications

Where Portable Gantries Earn Their Keep

Maintenance & Machine Shops

Pull an engine, swap a gearbox, or lift a heavy component off a machine without a dedicated crane bay: roll the gantry to the equipment instead of moving the equipment to the crane.

Receiving & Staging Areas

Add a lift point at a dock door or staging lane that has no overhead infrastructure, for crates and pallets that arrive too heavy or too awkward for a lift truck alone.

Outdoor Yards & Job Sites

Pneumatic-tire gantries roll over gravel, uneven grade, and rough concrete, putting a rated overhead lift wherever the yard or site work happens to be that day.

Why Gantry + Hoist

Overhead lift, zero construction

No Building Tie-In

The frame carries its own load on its own legs: no wall bracket, no ceiling structure, no engineering review of the building to add a lift point. Roll it in and go to work.

Adjustable Height & Span

Knockdown adjustable frames dial in to the lift at hand and break down for storage or transport, so one gantry does the work of several fixed setups.

Capacity-Matched as a System

Hoist, trolley, and frame are specified together and rated as one assembly: not a hoist bolted onto whatever frame happened to be in stock.

Send us your lift height, span, and capacity.

Tell us the weight you're lifting, how high, and how far it needs to travel, and we'll spec a gantry, hoist, and trolley rated to work as one system, with a written quote.

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Roll It Where the Lift Is

Roll It Where the Lift Is

No anchor bolts, no wall bracket, no ceiling structure to check: a gantry stands on its own legs and moves on casters, so the overhead lift goes to the job instead of the job coming to a fixed crane bay.

That's what makes gantries the fast answer for a shop floor, dock, or yard that doesn't have crane infrastructure built in: set the frame up, make the lift, and either leave it in place or roll it to the next work cell.

Rigging Right, From Hook to Ground

Rigging Right, From Hook to Ground

The frame is only half the lift. Hoist, trolley, and controls carry the load once it's off the ground, and beam clamps give you a rated attachment point when the pick isn't a straight top-hook lift.

We spec all of it together (frame, hoist, trolley), so the capacity rating covers the whole rig, not just the steel. Send your weight and reach and we'll build the assembly around the lift you actually need to make.

Gantry Cranes & Hoists

Key Features

  • Adjustable-height steel gantry frames that knock down for storage or transport between sites
  • Fixed-height steel gantry frames for a dedicated, repeated lift point
  • V-groove casters for rail or track travel; pneumatic casters for uneven or outdoor surfaces
  • Electric and manual hoists, including top-hook and cable-hoist configurations
  • Hoist and trolley controls for horizontal positioning under the beam
  • Beam clamps and rigging hardware for point-of-lift attachment
  • High-rise fork truck booms for boom-style lifting off an existing lift truck
  • Capacity engineered to the frame, hoist, and trolley as a matched system, not mixed after the fact

Frequently Asked Questions

A gantry crane is freestanding: it stands on its own legs and casters and carries its own load, so it doesn't tie into a wall, column, or ceiling. A jib or bridge crane mounts to the building structure, which means an engineering review of what that structure can carry. Gantries are the answer when you need overhead lifting somewhere that doesn't have crane infrastructure already, or where the lift location moves from job to job.
Adjustable (knockdown) gantries pin or bolt to a range of heights and spans and break down flat for storage or a move, which is the right call if your shop runs more than one type of lift. Fixed steel gantries skip that adjustment hardware for a simpler, more rigid frame set at one height and span: pick fixed when the lift point never changes.
V-groove casters ride in a track or rail, built for the exact same straight-line move every time. Pneumatic casters run on rubber, air- or foam-filled tires that handle cracked concrete, gravel, and outdoor grade: the pick for yards, older floors, or anywhere the surface isn't flat and smooth. Tell us the travel surface and we'll spec the caster.
Hoist, trolley, and controls are sized to the gantry's rated capacity and beam so the whole rig works as one system, not parts matched up after the fact. Tell us your lift weight, height, and reach and we'll spec gantry, hoist, and trolley together, or match a hoist and trolley to a gantry you already have.

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