Hiring a mini crane is the best choice for many landscaping situations.

When considering your next landscaping job, it may pay to look closer at whether hiring a mobile mini crane could be of benefit to your project. Mini cranes have various landscaping applications, but landscapers often overlook cranes due to the perceived expense and permit issues; however, hiring a mini crane may turn out to be an advantageous and flexible option.

Landscapers can use a mini cranes, as a crawler cranes or as a spider mini slew crane depending on the project. Mini cranes (often called spider cranes) have caterpillar crawler tracks are often a popular choice for the landscaper working in difficult or soft soils.


Arborists and Tree Removal
Landscapers often use mini cranes can be a handy tool to assist them with many landscaping tasks. Many professional arborists consider the use of a mini crane, under appropriate safety protocols and procedures, to be the safest option for the removal or pruning of large trees, especially local Brisbane natives the gum tree, which are notorious for branch dropping.


Established Trees
Cranes are perfect tools for the placement of established trees into a landscape project or garden. Not only can a mini crane move up to 4.8 tonnes of weight to the desired location, but it can suspend the weight whilst the hole for the tree is being dug or refilled. Suspending the tree with a crane is also useful for soil and root management of established trees. This process allows for the safe planting of established trees, maintain the structure and integrity of the root ball, and allowing the best chance of success for the tree.


Rock or Sculpture Placement
Landscaping across Brisbane and the Greater South East Queensland region often used large, locally quarried sandstone or bluestone feature rocks or boulders. These boulders can be placed with ease using a mobile crane. Mini cranes are the perfect choice in equipment for building stone retaining walls as they can move and position the rocks or boulders into place; manipulating them if required to get the ideal placement.

Large garden or park sculptures, park benches or monuments are also able to be placed with relative ease using a mini crane. The advantage of utilising a crane for these items is that they can be placed safely with minimal risk of breakage; essential when dealing with often expensive artworks or marble monuments. Mini cranes can also be used for moving large marble headstones in cemeteries, or to build family chapels.


Bulk Material Movement
For the average landscaping project there is always a degree of movement of bulk materials; soils, bark, gravel, rocks all need to moved and placed in the optimum position for use by the landscaping team. Utilising the various attachments available with the mini crane, the landscaper can move bulk bags into places where there is very narrow access or rugged terrain using the mini crane.

 
Fiberglass Pool Placement
Most fibreglass pool shells weigh between 500kg and 2 tonnes making them perfect to be lifted by a mini crane. Mini cranes can lift fibreglass pools and spas over houses, fences or even from the truck to the correct position in the backyard. Sometimes the lift is done solely by the mini crane, other times the pool is moved in conjunction with a larger crane. The benefit of hiring a mini crawler crane for your pool installation is that you can use the crane for other landscaping uses at the same time. In this case, the mini crane can provide a versatile budget-friendly option for the pool builder and landscaper.