Some jobs are too heavy, too awkward, or too high up for a forklift, a truck-mounted tailgate, or a few extra bodies. That's the work we do. Trinchese Boom Service lifts heavy objects safely into place across New York City — with the right crane, the right rigging, and one of our own operators running the pick.
Heavy Objects We Regularly Lift
- Structural steel — beams, columns, joists, decking, stair packages.
- Rebar & masonry — bundled rebar, block, brick, CMU, precast panels.
- Building materials — sheetrock, lumber, insulation, roofing packages to upper floors and rooftops.
- HVAC & MEP — rooftop units, condensers, cooling towers, boilers, chillers.
- Generators — pad-mount and rooftop generators, transformers, switchgear.
- Water tanks — rooftop tank swaps, new tank installations.
- Machinery — CNC machines, presses, restaurant equipment, safes, transformers.
- Specialty — sculpture, stone, glass, sensitive lab and medical equipment.
How a Heavy Lift Actually Runs
- Site walk / photos. We look at street width, wires, trees, setback, roof height, and load path.
- Pick plan. We size the crane by weight and radius, choose rigging, and set the outrigger footprint.
- Permits & scheduling. We coordinate DOT windows, FDNY needs, and building access.
- Execution. Our operator sets up, our rigger hooks and signals, the load flies clean.
- Break down & clear. Street re-opens, site is left broom-clean.
Why "With Operator" Matters On Heavy Lifts
Heavy lifts are where inexperience gets expensive. A miscalculated radius, a bad ground bearing, a swing into a cornice — any one of those turns a routine pick into a claim. Trinchese only sends cranes out with our own NCCCO-certified operators and riggers, and we carry the insurance to match. That is why we do not rent bare cranes.
Heavy Lifting FAQ
- Our Fassi 1950 boom trucks handle multi-ton loads at typical NYC job radii. The real answer is 'send us weight, radius, and a site photo' — capacity always depends on how far the load is from the crane.
- No. We provide crane + operator + rigger as one service. That's how we keep the lift safe and how our insurance stays valid.
- Yes. Our knuckleboom trucks are built for over-the-building work — HVAC to rooftops, materials to rear courtyards, tanks and generators up top.
- Yes, fully licensed and insured for crane operations in New York City.
- 24/7. Most DOT street windows are off-hours anyway, so night and weekend lifts are routine for us.

