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Jib Cranes

Pivoting-arm cranes that put 180 to 360 degrees of lift coverage over one workstation or bay, at a fraction of an overhead bridge crane's cost.

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Jib Cranes

Jib Crane Systems

A jib crane is a pivoting arm mounted to a wall, a freestanding pillar, or a mast, with a hoist and trolley that ride the horizontal boom. Rotate the arm and the hoist covers a full arc of floor space, up to 360 degrees on a freestanding base, closer to 180 on a wall-mounted unit, without a single foot of overhead runway bolted into your building.

That makes a jib crane the right tool for a fixed, repetitive lift: loading a CNC machine, staging freight at a dock door, positioning stock at a single workstation. Span, height under boom, and capacity are all built to the job, and every unit ships freight, so we spec it to your space and your load before anything moves.

Wall-Mounted, Freestanding, or Mast: Built to Your Column Spacing

How It Works

Wall-Mounted, Freestanding, or Mast: Built to Your Column Spacing

Wall-mounted jib cranes bracket to an existing wall or column and swing roughly 180 degrees in front of it, the lowest-cost option, but only if that wall or column can absorb the reaction load, which is an engineering question, not an assumption. Freestanding pillar- and base-mounted units anchor to their own foundation and rotate the full 360 degrees, independent of any building structure. Mast-style units split the difference: anchored top and bottom to existing steel, they reach greater height and capacity without a standalone foundation.

Every configuration is sized to your span, height under boom, and capacity requirement, and rated for a duty cycle that matches how often the arm actually swings. These are engineered, freight-heavy pieces of equipment, nothing ships until the layout, mounting, and load are confirmed and quoted.

Applications

Where Jib Cranes Fit

Machine Tool Loading

Position a jib crane at a CNC machine, press, or lathe and every load-and-unload cycle happens without calling in a forklift or waiting on an overhead crane bay to clear.

Dock & Staging Areas

A base-mounted jib at a bay door covers the drop zone for incoming freight, keeping heavy or awkward loads off the floor without tying up runway space shared by the rest of the building.

Assembly & Production Stations

Where the same lift happens dozens of times a shift, a wall-mounted or freestanding jib parked at the station beats walking a load to a shared bridge crane every time.

Why Jib

Coverage where you actually lift

Full Arc Coverage, One Footprint

Freestanding units rotate a full 360 degrees, wall-mounted units cover roughly 180: either way, one crane parked at one point covers the whole work area around it.

No Building-Wide Runway

A jib crane's coverage stops at its own arm. You get crane-grade lifting at a single station without the steel, cost, or building modification an overhead bridge system demands.

Engineered to Your Span, Height, and Load

Span, height under boom, and capacity are specified to the job, not pulled off a shelf, and mounting is confirmed against your building structure before the unit is built.

Send us your span, height, and load.

Tell us where it mounts and what it's lifting, and we will spec a jib crane and send a written quote.

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One Arm, Full Coverage

One Arm, Full Coverage

A jib crane's whole job is to put a hoist anywhere in the arc around its mount: rotate the arm, run the trolley out to the load, lift. There's no runway to walk down and no aisle to keep clear for a bridge crane passing through.

That makes it the right call for a fixed, repeated lift: the same machine, the same dock door, the same bench, day after day. You're not paying for coverage you don't need.

Engineered Before It Ships

Engineered Before It Ships

Span, height under boom, mounting method, and capacity all get specified to your building and your load before a jib crane is built: not adjusted after it arrives. A wall-mounted unit is only as strong as the wall it's bolted to, so that gets checked first.

These are freight-heavy, engineered pieces of equipment. We send a written quote with the specs confirmed, not a shelf price pulled from a catalog page.

Jib Cranes

Key Features

  • Wall-mounted, freestanding/pillar-mounted, and mast-style configurations
  • 180 to 360 degree arc coverage depending on mount type
  • Capacity engineered to your span, height under boom, and load
  • Hoist and trolley sized and matched to the crane, not bolted on after the fact
  • Rated for the duty cycle of your actual lift frequency
  • Freight-heavy, engineered equipment built to spec, not stocked off the shelf
  • Component and accessory parts, trolleys, idler wheels, guide rollers, tagline assemblies, available to service existing systems
  • Runway/frame system options for extending coverage beyond a single arm

Frequently Asked Questions

A jib crane covers a fixed arc around one point: the arm swings, the hoist covers the reach, and coverage stops at the boom. A bridge crane covers a whole bay on a runway that spans the building. If you're lifting at one station or one dock door repeatedly, a jib crane does the job at a fraction of the cost and without touching your building structure. If you need to move loads across a wide floor area, that's a bridge crane question.
Wall-mounted is the lower-cost option if you have a wall or column built to take the reaction load: that's an engineering check, not a guess. Freestanding (pillar- or base-mounted) anchors to its own foundation, gives you the full 360-degree swing, and doesn't depend on existing structure at all. Tell us what you're working with and we'll spec the right one.
Capacity is set by span, height under boom, and duty cycle: there isn't a single number that applies across the catalog. Send us your load weight, the reach you need, and how often the arm will swing in a shift, and we'll spec a crane rated for it.
Yes. Alongside complete crane systems, the catalog carries the components that keep an existing jib running: trolleys, idler wheels, guide rollers, tagline assemblies, and coatings. Tell us what system you have and we'll match the part.

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