New Orleans
crane rental.

Dispatch answers 24 hours a day and the New Orleans yard covers roughly a 80-mile radius. For a planned lift, booking a few days out gets you the exact crane and operator you want. For a breakdown or an emergency, we mobilise the nearest suitable unit the same day wherever the route and permits allow.

It depends on where the crane sits and how it gets there. A lift entirely inside a private plant or yard usually needs no public permit, only the site's own work authorisation. Anything that occupies a public street, a sidewalk or a lane, or that moves an oversize load on I-10 or another state route, needs a permit and often traffic control. We handle the oversize load permits for our own equipment and will tell you plainly which street-closure permits are yours to pull.

Both. Most work in this area goes out operated, meaning an NCCCO-certified operator and, where the pick needs one, a rigger come with the crane and stay under our insurance. Bare rental is available to contractors who carry their own certified operators and the insurance to match.

There is no useful list price, because the number moves with crane class, how long the pick takes, mobilisation distance, counterweight and mat requirements, and whether the work is straight time or after hours. Give dispatch the load weight, the radius, and the site, and you get a real quote rather than a range.

Four things get you a number quickly: what the load weighs, how far the hook has to reach from where the crane can legally set up, the date, and the site address. Photographs of the setup area and any overhead obstructions help more than almost anything else, because they answer the questions we would otherwise have to ask.

More than most people expect. The footprint is set by the outrigger spread, not the truck, and it grows with the tonnage. Ground bearing matters as much as area: soft or filled ground needs mats, and mats need somewhere to go. If you can send a photograph of the setup area we will tell you before the day whether it works.

Every operator is NCCCO certified and current. We maintain OSHA compliance, and we are registered with ISN and Avetta, which is what most refineries and plants in this region check before they will badge anyone through the gate.

Yes, and a good deal of our work is exactly that. Turnarounds, road closures and set work in built-up areas usually have to happen outside normal hours. Dispatch is staffed around the clock, so an after-hours job is scheduled the same way a daytime one is.

The New Orleans yard routinely covers Orleans Parish, Jefferson Parish, St. Bernard Parish and the surrounding parishes and counties, out to roughly 80 miles. Beyond that we still quote the work; it simply becomes a question of mobilisation cost and whether another CDH yard is closer.

Yes. We carry general liability, and operated rentals are covered under our policy while the crane is under our control. Certificates of insurance naming your company or the site owner as additional insured are issued on request before mobilisation, which most plants require anyway.

Wind is the usual culprit, and every crane has a published wind limit that falls as the boom goes up and the load gets larger. If conditions exceed the chart the lift stops, which is not negotiable. We watch the forecast ahead of scheduled picks and will call it early rather than mobilise into a day that will not work.

Yes. Dock, wharf and barge work along the Mississippi and the Industrial Canal is a large share of what the New Orleans yard does. Lifts over water bring their own considerations, including tide and river stage, barge stability and load charts that assume a stable base, so those picks get planned rather than improvised.

With a route survey first and a permit second. Narrow streets, balcony overhangs, streetcar lines and clearance limits on the Pontchartrain Expressway all constrain the approach, and a good many of these picks end up scheduled overnight with a police escort and a permitted street closure.