Cranes with a full gantry or semi-gantry are widely employed in large fabrication applications or in outdoor yards such as rail yards, shipping and container yards, steel yards, and scrap yards.
They're also used in cement and precast applications for places where slab concrete is formed and cured. Their design enables them to be utilized outside while also allowing forklift trucks and other motorized traffic to work and pass beneath them.Typically, portable gantry cranes are used to lift and hold something in place while it's being worked on, fabricated, or assembled. The load isn't necessarily being moved through the facility, but the gantry itself can be moved around to work on different parts or equipment.
In comparison to a jib crane or workstation crane, portable gantry systems can provide more flexibility. A jib crane is usually installed on a poured concrete base, and once it's in place, it's there for good. A smaller portable gantry crane can do the same job as a jib crane, but it can be moved about your warehouse as your company grows and you start optimizing and laying out warehouse space.
