Costs will vary due to the location of the crane truck to the location you wish to utilize the crane service. The travel time for the crane to my house was 1.5 hours in each direction (they couldn't go the fastest route as that requires going through a tunnel). The crane company bills out in 4-hour increments. Once there, it took 4 guys roughly 45-60 min to rig the airstream and prepare the crane (the crane required 32,500lbs of weight to prevent it from tipping. The lift itself (and placement) took under 10 minutes. That put me in the 5 hours total range (including travel time to and from). Therefore I had to pay for a full 8-hour day, which definitely doubled my original expectation of between $1500-$2500.
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