Cost of Operations with Material Hoist

A common objection from Project Managers to our hoists is that it's another cost. I want to show you a comparison of the costs of other options compared to our hoists.

You can load your apartment buildings manually. You can have a person carry up each kitchen sink one at a time up the stairs. Make that a fridge and it gets worse. But maybe there won't be any fridges in your new apartment building? Make it a box of tiles, and it gets better. That labor is a minimum of $96 a person for day. How many sinks can one person load into a building? Can one person load 200 sinks in a 80 apartment unit building in a day by taking the stairs? It would take three to four people to accomplish this. Or you can bring them up with the hoist in a couple of hours with two people. Pallets at a time. If the hoist costs you $91 a day, you are already ahead by one person's labor and it's done in a quarter of the time.

Commonly these things are done with a tower crane with a box made to allow people to drag items in from the crane hook. You'll have a signal person on the ground. You'll have a crane operator, the crane rental, the box rental, two people on the ground loading everything by hand. Then two people on the building offloading it all by hand. You can't bring in pallets at a time as you can't walk into the suspended load with a pallet jack. If you add all of that up, at a minimum, we are talking about a 300% higher cost per day to do it with a crane. And it's far slower. The actual cost might be closer to 6x the cost.

Not only is it more cost efficient, but it's safer. Lower your stress injuries. Keep your stairways clearer. No longer ask people to lean out of a building to grab items from a crane then hope they put the handrails back. Our systems come with interlocks so the car won't move until you reinstall the handrails. When they do walk out on the car, it has 39" fall protection everywhere. No fall arrest need be implemented. Risk eliminated.

Seattle Tower Crane is delivering the goods at a lower cost literally. Let us bring you the best option on the market. We have access to larger material hoists. We are working towards bringing in Personnel Hoists by the end of the year. Mast Climbers will follow. We look forward to continuing our march to becoming the market leader in elevation systems and the only call you need to make for any solution.