724-471-5710 | Available 24/7/365
724-471-5710 | Available 24/7/365
Sky Point Crane serves McMurray, PA from our yards in Indiana, Clearfield and Allegheny Counties. The Allegheny County yard puts a crew on Route 19 quickly, so Peters Township truss sets, rooftop changeouts and tree removals usually schedule same day or next. Boom trucks arrive road-legal and set up inside a residential street without closing it.
Peters Township is a difficult place to run a crane and an easy place to damage something. Lots are large but sloped, driveways are long and steeply pitched, streets are narrow and lined with mature trees, and almost every approach has utility lines over it. The lift is rarely the hard part here; getting set up without cracking a driveway apron or clipping a service drop is. We survey the approach first, plan the outrigger footprint and cribbing before the truck leaves, and bring the smallest machine that reaches the load safely.
McMurray is the centre of Peters Township and one of the busiest suburban corridors in Washington County. The work here looks nothing like a mill town: custom homes and additions, outpatient medical fit-outs, restaurant and retail build-outs along Route 19, office space around the Southpointe corridor, and a constant background of rooftop mechanical replacement and tree removal. Almost all of it is precision boom-truck work on a confined site with an audience.
Washington County splits between energy and industry in the west and suburban growth along its northern edge, and McMurray sits firmly on the suburban side. The sectors below account for most of what we are called out for in Peters Township and the communities immediately around it.
Peters Township builds large custom homes on wooded, sloping lots. Roof trusses, ridge beams, steel headers, modular sections, hot tubs and generators all have to travel over the house rather than through it. A boom truck placed in the street with a well-planned outrigger footprint usually beats moving equipment into a finished back yard.
The outpatient centres, imaging suites and medical offices along Route 19 need rooftop HVAC changeouts, chiller and generator sets and imaging equipment placed through a roof opening. These buildings stay open, so lifts run early, late or on a weekend with the parking lot coned off and a plan agreed with facilities beforehand.
The Route 19 corridor through McMurray turns over constantly: new restaurant pads, plaza remodels, signage, canopies and mechanical replacement at Donaldson’s Crossroads and the plazas around it. The constraint is almost always traffic rather than capacity, so we schedule around peak hours and keep the setup inside the lot where possible.
The office parks along the Southpointe corridor and the smaller professional buildings around McMurray need rooftop units, backup generators, transformers and antenna equipment set. Tenants are working underneath, so lift plans account for occupied floors, glass facades and shared parking as much as for the load itself.
Washington County is the heart of the Marcellus play and the service companies that run it keep offices and yards minutes from McMurray. Compressor and pump skids, separators, tanks, metering buildings and shop equipment all move on a crane, whether at a facility or on a pad down a township road.
Peters Township schools, municipal buildings, parks and the athletic complexes around them bring press box sections, light poles, scoreboards, dugout roofs, playground structures and mechanical replacement on summer schedules. Public work carries prevailing wage paperwork and inspection sign-off, and both go into the schedule from the start.
Carrier densification along Route 19 and the surrounding townships means pole replacements, small cell nodes, antenna swaps and cabinet placement, usually in a right of way with traffic moving past. Cell tower and antenna work is routine for us, and a boom truck handles nearly all of it from a single lane.
Growth in Peters and North Strabane keeps pump stations, tanks, manhole sections, box culverts and stormwater structures moving. These are short, heavy picks on a road shoulder or an easement, where the crane has to reach past an excavation without loading the edge of it.
Mature oaks and maples over houses are a McMurray speciality, and so is the storm damage that follows a summer line of thunderstorms. Crane-assisted removals let a climber take sections off under control rather than dropping them. The same setup handles anything else that has to clear a roof.
Sky Point Crane serves McMurray, PA from our yards in Indiana, Clearfield and Allegheny Counties. Peters Township work is decided by access far more than by capacity, so the question is usually which machine fits the street and the driveway, not which one lifts the most. The boom trucks and swing cabs cover the large majority of it, with larger and specialist equipment available when the site genuinely calls for it.
Our stand-up boom trucks are the default machine in McMurray. A 30-ton unit with a 20-foot bed carries its own rigging, occupies one lane of a township street and reaches over a house from the kerb. For truss sets, rooftop units, generators and tree work on a residential lot, it is usually the only crane the job needs.
Our swing cab units add 360-degree rotation and a raised operator position, which matters when the load disappears behind a roof line or a stand of trees. In the 35 to 55 ton range they take the heavier commercial sets along Route 19 and the longer reaches over a deep back yard.
Rough terrain cranes work where there is no pavement at all: a gas pad down a township road, an unfinished subdivision, a wet site after a storm. They are matched to the ground conditions rather than to the heaviest item on the list, and they keep working when a road-legal chassis would not.
Self-erecting tower cranes are available for McMurray projects that run for months on a tight footprint, such as a medical building or a mixed-use infill site along Route 19. They keep the lane and the parking clear that a mobile crane would otherwise tie up week after week.
Truck cranes pair highway travel with high-capacity booms and are available for Washington County work when a single heavy set outgrows the boom trucks but the site still has to be cleared the same day.
Telescopic crawlers travel on tracks and can pick and carry, which suits a long subdivision or a utility right of way where the load has to move down the site as well as up. They are available for McMurray projects where repeatedly setting and breaking down a wheeled crane would cost more than the lifts.
Mini cranes reach places full-size equipment cannot: through a garage door, into a walled courtyard, inside a finished building during a fit-out. We provide mini cranes for restricted-access work around McMurray where a back yard cannot be reached from the street at all.
Our 225-ton all-terrain crane is the largest machine we own and it travels the interstate under its own power. Around McMurray it comes out for the occasional heavy commercial or infrastructure set rather than routine suburban work, and it needs a site with room to rig.
McMurray is a short run from our Allegheny County yard, so same-day dispatch is realistic for boom truck work and we can often put a machine on site the morning you call. Peters Township jobs schedule easily once the Route 19 traffic pattern is allowed for. Emergency calls are dispatched 24/7/365, every day of the year.
All of it. Around McMurray that means Peters Township, Venetia, Canonsburg and the Southpointe corridor, Eighty Four, Finleyville, North Strabane and Nottingham, and out to the western end of the county. We also cross the line into Upper St. Clair and Bethel Park regularly, because the work runs together along Route 19.
Yes, and it is most of what McMurray asks for. Township roads are narrow, tree-lined and hung with overhead utilities, and many homes sit well back on a sloped lot. We survey the approach, plan the outrigger footprint and cribbing, and protect the driveway and apron before the crane ever sets up.
Residential and custom home construction leads, followed by outpatient healthcare, Route 19 retail and restaurant work, offices around the Southpointe corridor, natural gas service companies, Peters Township schools and municipal facilities, telecommunications and small cell, and water and stormwater infrastructure. Crane-assisted tree removal is a steady part of the mix as well.
We own and operate 30-ton stand-up boom trucks, 35 to 55-ton swing cab units and a 225-ton all-terrain crane. Around McMurray the boom trucks handle the majority of residential and commercial sets because they fit a suburban street. Rough terrain, truck, telescopic crawler, self-erecting tower and mini cranes are available when a site calls for them.
Yes, we dispatch 24/7/365. Storm damage in Peters Township, a failed rooftop unit at a Route 19 business or a tree down across a house does not keep business hours. Call 724-471-5710 at any time and you will get a machine committed and a realistic arrival window rather than a message taken.
Our operators hold Pennsylvania crane operator licenses and are NCCCO certified, and we carry full liability and cargo coverage on every job in Washington County. Lift plans, ground bearing checks and signal support come with the crane rather than as an extra line on the invoice.
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