Our Boom Trucks

Bill Boom runs a fleet of boom trucks out of Englewood. A boom truck is a crane mounted on a truck that drives to your job, sets up in minutes, and leaves when the lift is done. For most rooftop, sign, and building-material lifts in the Denver metro, it is the right tool and the least hassle.

How far they reach

Our trucks set loads up to about 80 feet off the ground. That figure already allows for the rigging that hangs between the hook and the load. It is enough to set equipment on the roof of most low-rise and mid-rise buildings, and to reach well back from the edge of a roof when the unit sits in the middle of it.

Reach works two ways. Straight up, the boom clears most buildings in the metro area that are not high-rises. Out to the side, the trucks work up to about 55 to 80 feet away from where they are parked, depending on the truck, which is what lets us reach over a storefront, a garage, or a row of trees from the lot or the alley. Height and reach trade off: the farther out the load has to go, the lower the boom works, so the highest lifts are the ones close to the truck.

How much a crane can lift depends on how far out it is reaching. That is why the first things we ask on the phone are how heavy the load is, how high it is going, and how far the truck will be from where it lands.

Where they fit

A boom truck is about the size of a delivery truck. It needs a firm, fairly level spot and room to put its outriggers down. That means it works from places a bigger crane cannot:

• Alleys behind homes and downtown buildings
• Parking lots and loading areas
• Driveways and private lots
• A parking lane, when the job does need the street

When we can stay off the street, there is no street closure to arrange. When the job does need the street, we can handle the street closure permit for you.

What we lift

• Rooftop HVAC. Rooftop units, condensers, package units, swamp coolers, and mini-splits, for commercial buildings, condos, apartments, and homes.
• Signs. Building signs, pole signs, and rooftop displays.
• Building materials. Trusses, beams, steel, lumber packages, and roofing materials.
• Equipment. Generators, tanks, compressors, and other equipment that has to go up, over, or onto something.
• The unusual ones. A tornado warning siren on a 50-foot pole. A 25-foot Santa on a rooftop. If it needs to go up, call and ask.

What comes with the truck

Every truck comes with an operator who runs that crane every day, and with the rigging for the lift: slings, straps, and shackles. Our operators have decades of experience between them, and the certification to go with it. You are not renting a machine and figuring it out. You are getting the lift done. Read more about Bill Boom.

What we do not do

It saves everyone time to say this up front:

• We do not supply the people who rig or signal. We bring the crane, the operator, and the rigging gear. Your crew attaches it to the load, signals the operator, and hooks and unhooks it.
• We do not haul. We lift. If something needs to be moved across town, your hauler brings it and we set it.
• We do not lift hot tubs or spas.

Not sure a boom truck is enough?

Call and ask. Tell us the weight, the height, and how close the truck can get, and we will tell you straight whether our trucks can do it. If your job needs a bigger crane, we will say so on the phone, before you have spent any time or money.

Call (303) 761-2666. There is no call center. The person who picks up knows the trucks. Every lift is quoted on the phone.

Frequently asked questions