About Parramatta CranesThe family crew behind Sydney’s tightest lifts.
We’re an owner-operated spider crane hire outfit working Western Sydney, Sydney Metro and the Central Coast. The people who answer the phone are the people on the hook — planning your lift, driving the crane, and standing on your site until the job’s done. No call centre. No subbies. No drama.
IncludedEvery hire · No exceptions
1am lift — while the city sleeps
Meet the outfit — family-run, hands on
Parramatta Cranes started the way most good crews do: on the tools, on real sites, saying yes to the jobs everyone else knocked back. The narrow driveways. The backyard pools. The steel beam that has to go over the house and through a gap with millimetres to spare.
Today we run two depots — Rydalmere in Western Sydney and The Entrance on the Central Coast — because that’s where our lives actually are. Western Sydney trade DNA, Central Coast home. Your travel is quoted from whichever depot is closer, so you’re never paying for a float across the city.
When you ring us, you’re not talking to a dispatcher reading a screen. The person who quotes your lift is the person who plans it and runs it. That’s the whole business model, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.
“If it fits through a gate, a door, or over the roof — we’ll lift it.“
A note from the crew
G’day — thanks for reading this far. Most people don’t meet their crane crew until the truck pulls up, so here’s what you should know about ours: we turn up when we say we will, we plan every lift like it’s a critical one, and we genuinely love the jobs everyone else swears at. The tight ones. The weird ones. The “mate, I don’t think it’ll fit” ones. It’ll fit. And if it honestly won’t, we’ll tell you straight — before you’ve spent a dollar.
— The Parramatta Cranes crewP.S. Not sure about your access? Text a photo of the gap to 0434 242 777 — we’ll size it up on the spot.
The numbers that matter
What we do
- 03.1Spider crane hireCompact Maeda cranes for tight-access sites — driveways, backyards, rooftops and indoors.→
- 03.2Tracked carrier transportMaterials moved across rough, soft or narrow ground that wheeled machines can’t handle.→
- 03.3Glass liftingVacuum glass lifter hire for oversized panels, shopfronts, facades and pool fencing.→
- 03.4Structural steel installationBeams and columns placed into renovations, extensions and commercial fit-outs.→
- 03.5Machinery installs and complex liftsPlant, spas, AC units, sculptures — planned lifts for awkward loads across Sydney.
Planned like a critical lift, every time
Safety isn’t a page on our website — it’s the paperwork we hand you before the crane leaves the depot. Every job runs on documented lift planning, and our full Safety Management System means we walk straight through commercial and high-rise prequalification.
- SWMS, JSA and lift plan on every jobSite-specific documents supplied before work starts — not generic templates.
- Ticketed, experienced operatorsLicensed crane operators and riggers who do this every day.
- Serviced, compliant late-model gearRegularly inspected and maintained to Australian standards, logbooks kept.
- Fully insured, prequal-readyComplete Safety Management System available for builder and site prequalification.
TRANSPARENT RATES · FROM $195/HR + GST · OPERATOR INCLUDED · NO HIDDEN FEES
The fleet — our pride and joy
Maeda · Spider Crane
MC285C-3
aka “the little one”
Tracks through a 750 mm gap — a standard doorway — then quietly lifts nearly three tonnes.
- Capacity
- 2.82 t
- Width
- 750 mm
- Max height
- 8.7 m
- Weight
- 1,990 kg
Maeda · Spider Crane
MC305C
aka “the reach”
Our biggest lifter — second-storey, over-structure and rooftop work is its bread and butter.
- Capacity
- 2.98 t
- Width
- 1,280 mm
- Max height
- 12.52 m
- Max reach
- 12.16 m
Two depots. One crew. Sydney to the Coast.
From backyard lifts in Parramatta to tight-access crane hire across Sydney and the Central Coast — travel is always quoted from the nearer depot:
Off the camera roll — recent lifts
Common questions
Where is Parramatta Cranes based?
We run two depots — Rydalmere in Western Sydney and The Entrance on the Central Coast. Jobs are quoted with travel from whichever depot is closer, which keeps float costs down across Sydney Metro and the Coast.
Does crane hire include an operator?
Yes — every hire is wet hire. A licensed, experienced operator is always included, along with site-specific SWMS, JSA and a lift plan. You never need to source your own crane crew.
Are you insured and compliant for commercial sites?
Yes. We’re fully insured, our cranes are serviced and maintained to Australian standards, and we hold a complete Safety Management System — so we routinely pass builder prequalification for commercial and high-rise projects.
Get a quote
Got a lift that doesn’t fit the textbook? Good. Those are our favourites.
Tell us the load, the access and the deadline. We’ll tell you straight if we can do it, what it costs, and when we can be there — usually the same day you call.
— or just text us a photo of the gap. Seriously. Available 24/7 · enquiries@parramattacranes.com.au · Rydalmere + The Entrance NSW · Official profiles