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Craning Laneway Homes
As cities grow, land becomes a premium. Laneway homes are becoming a popular way to maximize your property’s potential income. While the city of Toronto has changed the zoning to allow these new structures, they have not addressed how to get them into some of these tight locations. Besides traversing the tight, narrow laneways, power, cable, and telephone lines are other major obstacles that you need to consider when building or buying one.
Most prefab tiny homes or laneway homes require a crane to lift them off the truck and move them into place. Problem: Most standard stick cranes are too large to maneuver downtown laneways. That is assuming there are no low-hanging wires that you also have to work around. So what other options do you have?
Knuckle cranes lift in laneways
While the typical knuckle crane is similar in vehicle size to your smaller traditional stick crane, they work in a much smaller footprint. They also have a much easier time working around lines in the air, trees and other obstacles. If your laneway is large enough to accommodate this type of crane, this should be your first choice. It will give you the most lifting power.
Mini cranes to the rescue
Mini cranes are the saviours of downtown Toronto city laneways. These cranes are similar in size to a car and can go to most places they can travel. While mini cranes do not have the same lifting power as some larger ones, they generally do not need to. In the crane world: If you can get the crane to where you are working, you do not need to reach as far to do the same lift.
Which means less power is required!
As you can see, having the right mini crane for your lift is a great way to accomplish these deliveries.
If you need anything craned in a tight laneway, mini cranes are the way to go.
Want to learn more?
Call our crane department at 416-900-0969 to speak to one of our crane specialists and learn which crane is right for you.
You can also complete our web form to get a quote on renting it: Crane quote.