McHenry, Illinois

Crane service and lifts, with the operator included.

Adams sends the truck and a certified operator together. Most of what we lift is rooftop HVAC equipment for mechanical contractors, along with roof trusses and structural steel. Call with the weight and the address and we will tell you whether we can make the pick.

Call 815-385-9100 Request a lift

$225per hour, port to port

No minimumand no separate trip fee

3crane trucks, operator included

What we lift

If your job needs something set on a roof, over a building, or into a spot a forklift cannot reach, this is the call.

Rooftop HVAC units

Takedowns and resets for mechanical contractors. This is the majority of the lift work we do, and it is usually a same-day, few-hour job.

Roof trusses

Setting prefabricated trusses on new construction so the framing crew can keep moving.

Structural steel

Beams, columns and joists set in place. We fabricate and erect structural steel ourselves, so the crew knows what it is holding.

Material at the job site

Steel and equipment placed where it needs to go rather than dropped at the curb.

The trucks

Three knuckleboom cranes. The Palfinger carries the most weight, the Fassi F425A reaches the furthest with its jib fitted, and the two Fassi cranes cover the same working range as each other.

Palfinger PK42002

Freightliner 114SD, knuckleboom with fly jib

The heavy pick

28,000 lbMaximum capacity

53 ft 10 inMain boom, six sections

86 ft 4 inReach with fly jib

6,200 lbJib capacity

Fassi F425A

Peterbilt 378, knuckleboom with jib

The long reach

26,455 lbMaximum capacity

93 ft 10 inMaximum reach, jib fitted

78 ft 3 inReach without the jib

5,732 lbCapacity with the jib fitted

Fassi F385A

Western Star 4700, knuckleboom

Same range, no jib

26,455 lbMaximum capacity

78 ft 3 inMaximum reach

54 ft 4 inHydraulic boom reach

3,307 lbCapacity at full hydraulic boom

Call with the weight

What is being lifted, roughly what it weighs, and the job address. Those three answers tell us which truck to send.

Tell us the set-up

How close the truck can park to the pick, and whether there are wires, trees or a roof edge in the way.

We schedule the crew

The truck goes out with one or two of our operators. This is a crewed lift service, not bare equipment rental.

$225per hour

$225 per hour, port to port. No minimum charge.

The clock starts when the truck leaves our yard in McHenry and stops when it gets back, so there is no separate trip fee to add on. Most rooftop unit lifts run two to three hours start to finish.

Call with anything larger and we will quote it.

Certified operators

Our operators hold NCCCO articulated boom crane certification, and we carry a City of Chicago crane operator license for work inside the city. We travel for the work. Call with the address and we will tell you.

On the job

Adams Steel knuckleboom crane setting steel

Knuckleboom crane extended over a building

Residential structural steel set by crane

Request a lift

Send the details and we will call you back to confirm the truck and the price. Not sure of a number? Give us your best guess.

Thanks, we have your lift details. We will call you to confirm the truck and the price. Photos of the pick help: reply to our email with them.

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Have a lift coming up?

Most lifts get scheduled over the phone in a few minutes.

815-385-9100

Or send the details and we will call you back.

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