Services
What an inspection costs
The honest answer is that it depends on five things — and you can tell us all five in about a minute. Inspections across MN, WI, ND, SD and IA.
Scope your inspection
Step 1 of 1 — about a minute
What needs inspecting
Periodic inspection of overhead cranes, jibs and hoists, on site.
How many
Top running, under running, single or double girder
Electric, air, hand chain or lever — anything with its own inspection record
An approximate count is fine. If you don’t know what you own, that is itself a reason to book — we build the inventory as part of the first visit.
Gear we can pick up and inspect at a bench
We travel across MN, WI, ND, SD and IA.
Put a count against anything above and your scope appears here.
What moves the number
Five things, and we ask about all of them
We quote each site rather than publishing a flat figure, because these five change the answer more than any rate card would.
01
How many units, and of what kind
A bridge crane and a hand chain hoist are not the same job. The count and the mix are the biggest single factor, and inspecting a lot of gear in one visit costs less per unit than inspecting a little.
02
How hard it is to reach
Gear we can inspect at a bench is quick. A crane on a catwalk, or an anchor that needs a lift, takes longer and sometimes takes two people.
03
Whether production has to stop
Work we can do during your working day costs less than work that has to wait for a scheduled shutdown or happen at a weekend.
04
Where the site is
Our technicians travel across the upper Midwest. Distance from the nearest of our shops affects the quote, and combining several services into one trip reduces it.
05
Whether you want the repairs quoted too
An inspection produces a deficiency list. Deciding up front whether you want those repairs priced with it saves a second round of paperwork.
What you get for it
A record you can hand an inspector
Every one of these produces documentation. That is the point of buying one.
On-site or in-shop
Crane & Hoist Service
OSHA-required inspections, and the repairs they turn up
On-site or in-shop
Rigging Inspection
Tag it, track it, repair it — or take it out of service
On-site or in-shop
Fall Protection Service
Annual competent-person inspection on harnesses and systems
In-shop
Hydraulic Service
Proof that the cylinder still does what it says
Inspected against
- OSHA 1910.184 — Slings
- OSHA 1910.179 — Overhead and gantry cranes
- OSHA 1926.251 — Rigging equipment for material handling
- ASME B30 series
- ANSI Z359 — Fall protection
Inspection intervals depend on how hard the equipment works and how it is classified, so we set the schedule with you rather than quoting a single interval here. Once you are on one, we track what is due and remind you.
Common questions
About inspection cost
- What does an inspection cost?
- It depends on how many units you have, what kind they are, how reachable they are, whether we can work during your working day, and where the site is. We quote each site rather than publishing a flat figure, and the estimator on this page collects all of it in about a minute so the quote comes back quickly.
- Do you charge for the inspection report?
- No. The written deficiency report is the deliverable, not an extra — an inspection that doesn't produce a record you can file isn't worth buying.
- Is it cheaper to inspect everything in one visit?
- Yes. Most of the cost of a site visit is getting a technician to you and back, so inspecting cranes, rigging and fall protection on the same trip costs less per unit than three separate visits. Training can be combined with an inspection visit too.
- Do you inspect equipment you didn't sell?
- Yes, on every service line. Our technicians inspect overhead cranes, hoists, slings, rigging hardware and fall protection of every brand, not just the lines we sell.
- What happens to what the inspection finds?
- You get a written deficiency report. We can repair most of what we find — mechanical and electrical work on cranes and hoists, sling and assembly repair and re-certification in our shop — and you can ask for those repairs to be quoted alongside the inspection so it's one piece of paperwork.
Scope it once, and we'll price the lot
Cranes, rigging and fall protection on one visit costs less per unit than three. Tell us what you have and we'll put together one number.