Jib Cranes

G-Rail™ Jib Cranes – Rethinking the Jib Crane...

At Givens Engineering, we manufacture our jib cranes to be the lightest in the industry. This minimizes the rotational momentum, which is important when working with this style of crane. The Jib Crane installation process is quick and efficient because often there is no expensive foundation to be installed.

J250 Jib Crane by Givens Engineering Inc.

Up to 2000kg – J250 Jib Crane, 4m Boom

Standard rotational softstop (black sleeve), Optional brake, Optional intermediate stop (red ring)

Jib Crane Advantages

Lightweight Boom

Typically, jib cranes are avoided by engineers due to the momentum of the boom which can slow down the operator. At Givens Engineering, we have created one of the most lightweight booms on the market to ease this common problem.

Our jib cranes are lightweight thanks to the G-Rail profiles which provide a higher moment-of-inertia to weight ratio. These jib cranes also have an unusually high torsional stiffness compared to traditional profiles; the height of the profile is much greater that the width, maximizing the stiffness-to-weight ratio.

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J250 jib crane attached to one column of a bridge crane with hook as end effector

Minimum weight J100 jib cranes - all-aluminum rail, diagonal and trolley

3 J250 jib cranes with balancers for lifting brake rotors

J1000 jib crane with 5m boom, at work – notice the large baseplate

Foundation-less Jib Cranes

Our jib crane baseplates are unusually large, so that in most cases, the jib crane can be bolted directly to a factory concrete floor. However, all jib crane installation details must be specified by a Professional Engineer.  

Power Rotation

Our customized jib cranes include the option to add an air tractor when power rotation is needed. Our cranes also allow for loads to moved manually; simply disengage the tractor drive with the push of a button.

Types of Jib Cranes

Givens Engineering creates customized jib cranes to suit your industry or job-at-hand. For example, here are the two specialty types of jib cranes we engineer and manufacture in-house: