CRANE RENTAL & BOOM TRUCK SERVICES IN INDIANA, PA
Sky Point Crane is headquartered in Indiana, Pennsylvania, so Indiana County is our home county rather than a service area we drive to. Cranes, operators and lift planners are based here, and we cover the whole county — Homer City, Blairsville, Clymer, Marion Center, Creekside, Ernest, Shelocta, Saltsburg and Cherry Tree. From rooftop work on the IUP campus to power plant and data center work at Homer City, we know these roads and these job sites.
Why Indiana Contractors Choose Sky Point Crane
Indiana County work is different because we are already here. No mobilization from Pittsburgh, no long deadhead before the first pick, and no guessing which township road takes a loaded truck.
What being based in Indiana means for your project:
– Crews and equipment dispatched from inside the county
– Borough street widths and IUP campus access known first-hand
– Weight-posted township bridges accounted for in the route
– Routes into the Homer City, Conemaugh and Keystone corridor already worked out
– Same-day and after-hours response for generating stations, plants, mines and hospitals
Crane Services for Indiana County's Campus, Healthcare and Energy Economy
Indiana County’s economy runs on a university, a regional hospital, energy, and the manufacturers that serve both. IUP is the largest employer and Indiana Regional Medical Center anchors rural healthcare, but coal, gas and power generation still drive most of the industrial lifting here — and the Homer City Redevelopment campus is adding data center construction to that mix.
US Routes 22, 119 and 422 and PA Route 286 connect Indiana to Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Altoona and Kittanning. We work all of them, from a boom truck pick on Oakland Avenue to multi-week installations at generating stations.
- Crane Rentals: Flexible rental options for all project sizes.
- Certified Operators: Skilled, certified professionals for every lift.
- Rigging Solutions: Expert rigging for complex jobs.
- Storage Services: Indoor and outdoor storage for sensitive equipment.
Industries We Serve in Indiana, PA
Indiana County’s employment base is unusually mixed for a rural county: higher education and healthcare alongside coal, gas, power generation, data center development and light manufacturing. We support all of it.
Higher Education & Campus Facilities
IUP is the county’s largest employer, with continuous residence hall, academic and athletic work. We set rooftop air handlers and chillers and lift steel around campus and the Kovalchick Complex.
Healthcare & Medical Facilities
Indiana Regional Medical Center and the medical offices around it need rooftop HVAC changeouts, chiller and generator replacements and imaging placement. A hospital does not close for a lift, so we plan around occupied floors.
Power Generation, Data Centers & Transmission
Indiana County sits in one of Pennsylvania’s densest power generation corridors. The Homer City Redevelopment campus, Conemaugh at New Florence, Seward in the Conemaugh valley and Keystone out toward Shelocta are all a short haul from our yard, along with the transmission lines and substations tying them together. Homer City’s rebuild around new generation and data center capacity brings a different class of lifting: switchgear and transformer setting, cooling and mechanical equipment, and structural steel.
On the operating side we work outages and turnarounds — breaker and transformer setting, boiler and precipitator component handling, and generator and motor changeouts in congested plant yards. For larger scopes see our power generation and substation and transformer crane services.
Coal & Mine Support
Indiana County is still bituminous coal country, with surface and deep operations, prep plants and reclamation around Clymer, Ernest, Lucernemines and the Blacklick Creek valley. We handle conveyors, gearbox changeouts and silo work.
Natural Gas & Midstream
Marcellus and Utica activity brings well pads, compressor stations and gathering lines. We set compressor skids and coolers, place vessels and separators, and support turnarounds into Armstrong and Jefferson counties.
Manufacturing & Fabrication
The industrial base sits in the White Township business parks and the smaller plants at Homer City, Blairsville and Saltsburg: machinery installation and relocation, press and CNC setting, and expansion steel.
Downtown & Commercial Construction
Downtown Indiana is a compact grid around Philadelphia Street, with the commercial corridor running out Oakland and Wayne Avenues to the Indiana Mall. Narrow lanes and overhead utilities make these lifts an access problem, not a capacity problem.
Telecommunications & Broadband
Rural broadband build-out and carrier upgrades keep tower work steady on the ridgelines from Marion Center and Smicksburg through Armagh and Cherry Tree: tower steel, antenna placement and shelter setting.
Residential & Modular Construction
Builders in White Township, Indiana Borough and surrounding communities call us for truss setting, modular home placement, beam setting on additions and residential HVAC lifts.
Our Indiana Crane Fleet
Sky Point Crane owns and operates boom trucks and all-terrain cranes out of Indiana for job sites across the county.
Stand Up Boom Trucks
Our stand-up boom trucks are the workhorse of Indiana County work: quick to set, road legal, and right for most rooftop and material handling picks.
- 30 T standup units with 20 ft bed
- 30 Ton Boom - 146 ft reach, 20 ft bed with 20 ton payload
Swing Cab Units
Our swing cab units add 360-degree rotation and better sightlines on confined downtown sites and inside plant yards.
- 35 T to 55 T
- Increased viewing angles with 360 degree rotation ability
Rough Terrain
Rough terrain cranes handle the toughest job sites: soft ground, unfinished pads, mine and well site access. Available for Indiana County projects and sized to the pick.
- Designed to handle the toughest job site.
- Sized to the pick and the ground conditions.
Self-Erecting Tower Cranes
Self-erecting tower cranes are available for Indiana projects with long duration and tight footprints, such as campus work and downtown infill. They set up fast.
- Requires just one crew member to operate the crane via remote control
- Quick setup and decommission
Truck Cranes
Truck cranes pair highway travel with high-capacity booms, and are available for Indiana County projects where a boom truck runs out of chart.
- Quick set-up, long reach, high capacity booms and highway speed travel.
- A front outrigger is standard for 360° operation.
Telescopic Crawlers
Telescopic crawlers travel on tracks and can pick and carry across a site. They suit pipeline, transmission line and site development work across the county.
- Tracked travel for soft and uneven ground
- Pick and carry capability on rough terrain
Mini Cranes
Mini cranes reach places full-size equipment cannot: inside finished buildings, through standard doorways and in tight courtyards. We provide mini cranes for restricted-access work in Indiana.
- Battery-electric, diesel and tracked options
- Indoor, outdoor and restricted-access work
- Sized to your doorway, floor loading and reach
All-terrain cranes
Our 225-ton all-terrain crane is the largest machine we own and it is based here in Indiana, reaching plants, mine sites and energy projects across the county.
- 225 T Grove GMK 5225 all-terrain
- Ideal for on and off-road construction and industrial projects.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Sky Point Crane is headquartered in Indiana, so cranes, operators and rigging gear are already in the county. For most jobs in Indiana Borough and White Township we can be on site the same day, often within hours, with no mobilization from Pittsburgh in the price.
All of it. We cover Indiana Borough, White Township, Homer City, Blairsville, Clymer, Ernest, Creekside, Marion Center, Shelocta, Saltsburg, Armagh, Cherry Tree, Glen Campbell, Plumville and Smicksburg, and regularly cross into Armstrong, Jefferson, Clearfield, Cambria and Westmoreland counties.
Yes. Downtown Indiana is a compact grid around Philadelphia Street with narrow lanes, overhead utilities and active storefronts, and the IUP campus adds pedestrian traffic and academic-calendar scheduling. These are access problems rather than capacity problems, so we plan set-up and lane control before the truck rolls.
Power generation and energy lead the list — the Homer City Redevelopment campus, Conemaugh, Seward and Keystone all sit within a short haul, alongside coal, mine support and Marcellus midstream. We also serve IUP, Indiana Regional Medical Center, manufacturing, telecommunications, commercial construction and residential builders.
We own and operate 30-ton stand-up boom trucks with 146 feet of reach, 35 to 55-ton swing cab units and a 225-ton all-terrain crane, all based in Indiana. Rough terrain cranes, self-erecting tower cranes, telescopic crawlers, truck cranes and mini cranes are also available for Indiana County projects.
Yes, we dispatch 24/7/365. Breakdowns at plants, mines, hospitals and generating stations do not wait for business hours, and being headquartered in Indiana keeps the drive to an after-hours call inside the county short. Call 724-471-5710.
Licensed and Ready to Serve
Our operators hold Pennsylvania and West Virginia crane operator licenses and are NCCCO certified, which satisfies Maryland’s requirement. We work throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland, available 24/7/365. Indiana is our home base; we also serve Johnstown, Punxsutawney, Kittanning and Ebensburg.
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