Crane Rental in Burleson, TX
Crane rental in Burleson comes down to a fast-growing city split between two counties, a state highway being widened through town and new plants planned for its business parks. The Handbook of Texas entry for Burleson places the town "fourteen miles south of Fort Worth in northern Johnson and southern Tarrant counties," on I-35W, US 81, SH 174 and Farm roads 731 and 3391. The U.S. Census Bureau counted a population of 47,641 in April 2020 and estimates 56,907 for July 1, 2025, a 19.5 percent rise, and the City's FY26 budget message counts "14 actively developing residential subdivision phases" holding 716 single-family lots. That growth brings steel to set, roofs to load, trenches to dig and pads to grade, and we supply cranes and machines for each of those jobs.
A Burleson crane job is booked one of two ways. In an operated rental, the quote includes the person running the crane, charged hourly with a minimum; in a bare rental, you take the machine only and staff it with your own operator, who must satisfy OSHA section 1926.1427. Your written quote costs nothing and itemizes every charge, from the crane or machine and its staffing to the hours, the haul to the site, extras such as permits, escorts, crane mats or rigging, and sales tax where it applies. Dated, sourced price ranges are collected in our published crane and equipment prices. The Texas Comptroller's table gives Burleson a 2 percent city rate and an 8.25 percent total, identical in its Johnson County and Tarrant County parts.
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Business Parks, a Highway Widening and Two Counties in Burleson
Burleson's business parks hold several of its planned new buildings. In its FY26 budget message of September 8, 2025, the City of Burleson says HighPoint Business Park "has created close to 2,000 jobs," and it names Paris Baguette USA as the company constructing a new North American manufacturing plant there, employing 450 new jobs. The same message says KMP Plumbing will build a corporate office and service center with 100 new jobs, and lists a trade school, Craftmasters, set to close on a 54-acre site at Hooper Business Park. Buildings like these call for cranes when steel, wall panels and rooftop equipment go up, and for excavators, dozers and loaders while pads, drives and utilities are built. The City's own words are in its budget message on HighPoint Business Park.
Wilshire Boulevard, the SH 174 corridor through town, is a TxDOT work zone into 2028. The City of Burleson said on October 7, 2026 that TxDOT will "widen SH 174/Wilshire Boulevard from four lanes to six lanes" between Wicker Hill Road and north of Elk Drive, adding a third travel lane each way, a curbed center median, turn lanes, sidewalks, and drainage and signal upgrades. The first phase, drainage culverts at SW Hulen Street, was set to start Monday, October 12: from 7 p.m. that day Wilshire was to drop to one lane each way at Hulen, with the closures in place day and night until that work is done. A crane or delivery beside Wilshire has to fit TxDOT's lane pattern that week, so we check it before a date is set. The details are in the City's SH 174 widening announcement.
Burleson began as a railroad town and keeps building along its highways. The Handbook of Texas says it started "when the MKT planned a railroad from Fort Worth to Hillsboro in 1881," and that the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad "runs through the community." TxDOT proposes to rebuild I-35W through Burleson with "three 12-foot-wide general purpose lanes" each way and an 11-foot-wide shared use path, and to widen FM 3391 from I-35W to east of County Road 602, a three-mile job it estimates will go to a contractor in 2031, as TxDOT's FM 3391 project page shows. It also proposes widening FM 917 from I-35W toward Mansfield, whose own rules are on our Mansfield crane rental page. The City's capital list adds a sewer trunk relief line in the Town Creek basin, an Industrial Blvd pump station expansion, and a lift station and pressure main at FM 917 and 35W.
The ground under a Burleson job depends on where in Johnson County it sits. The Handbook of Texas describes the county as about one-third Eastern Cross Timbers "with acid soils," Blackland Prairie "with deep clayey, alkaline soils" to the east, and a western half where "the predominant soil type is alkaline loam over limestone," with elevations "between 600 feet and 1,000 feet above sea level." It does not say which belt a given Burleson lot is on, so we ask about the soil, recent rain and any fill before choosing mats, the timber or steel pads laid under outriggers or tracks to spread the load. Weather is read from DFW Airport, where the Dallas/Fort Worth climate record is kept: the National Weather Service's provisional 2026 count of 100-degree days there is 52, tied for fifth-most on record, and gust records and storm dates are gathered on the Arlington construction and weather data page.
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Cranes for Burleson Plants, Shops and Subdivisions
Each crane class below fits a different kind of Burleson pick, the crane trade's word for a single hoist of a single load. What decides the class is the weight, the radius (how far the hook sits out from the pivot under the boom, measured flat) and the footing and elbow room where the crane stands. For a Burleson quote, tell us the weight, the start and finish points of the load, the soil and gate access, any power or phone wires above, the site address and your target days.
Mobile Cranes Along Wilshire, I-35W and Burleson's New Pads
A mobile crane is a hydraulic boom on a road-going truck chassis, and it suits a one-day Burleson pick such as a rooftop unit on a new shop, steel for an office or a sign. It works from outriggers, steel legs with pads that lift the truck off its tires, so it needs a firm, level spot as wide as their spread: a business park pad, a parking lot or a street lane. Mobile cranes are exempt from TxDMV's Tarrant County curfew on oversize loads, which matters because part of Burleson lies in that county. The mobile crane rental page walks through example truck cranes and their load charts, the makers' capacity tables by radius.
All-Terrain Cranes for Burleson Plant Steel and Heavy Units
An all-terrain crane suits the Burleson lifts that outgrow a truck crane: heavier steel, a longer reach over a building, or a setup on a graded but unpaved pad. It carries a longer telescopic boom on a multi-axle carrier that travels the highway and steers all its wheels on site, and for the larger models the counterweight follows on separate trucks, which the quote lists. A plant on the scale of Paris Baguette USA's planned North American manufacturing plant at HighPoint Business Park is the kind of job that can call for one, for roof steel and heavy mechanical units. Example AT models, and the point where one beats a truck crane, are laid out on the all-terrain crane rental page.
Rough-Terrain Cranes on Burleson's Unpaved Sites
A rough-terrain crane fits Burleson ground that is still dirt, such as a business park lot before paving or a subdivision street before curbs. It rides to the job on a trailer, then crosses the site under its own power on large tires with four-wheel drive. The City's budget message lists a 54-acre trade school site at Hooper Business Park and a new master planned community on the west side expected to grow "over the next 20 years," places where an RT can work before roads and slabs are in. OSHA section 1926.1402 hands the ground to the controlling entity, the firm running the overall project: the setup area has to be "firm, drained, and graded" so that, with mats or cribbing (stacked timbers) as needed, the crane meets its maker's support and level specs. The rough-terrain crane rental page lists RT models and their travel figures.
Crawler Cranes and Spinks Airspace for Long Burleson Builds
A crawler crane suits a long Burleson build with many heavy picks, such as months of steel erection on a plant: its tracks spread its weight and, where the maker allows, it can travel with a load. It arrives in pieces on several trucks and is assembled on site under an assembly/disassembly director, as OSHA sections 1926.1403 and 1926.1404 require, so the site needs a laydown area as well as a crane pad. A tall lattice boom also raises the airspace question: Fort Worth Spinks Airport, which the City of Fort Worth places 13 miles south of downtown Fort Worth, has "A paved 6,002-foot runway," which brings ground within 20,000 feet of it under the FAA's 100-to-1 notice slope in 14 CFR 77.9(b). Lattice and telescopic crawlers are set side by side on the crawler crane rental page.
Boom Trucks for Burleson Homes, Old Town and New Shops
A boom truck carries its cargo on a flatbed and lifts it off with a telescopic crane fixed behind the cab, which suits the short, lighter picks that come with Burleson's growth: roof trusses on the 716 single-family lots the City counts in developing subdivisions, and signs, light poles and small rooftop units for the new shops and restaurants its budget message lists for Old Town and the Wilshire and Summercrest intersection. Arriving with its own load, it can deliver and set in one trip on a small site such as the former Hill College site in Old Town, where the City Council envisions a commercial development of "roughly two acres." When a load outgrows a boom truck is covered on the boom truck rental page.
Spider and Mini Cranes Inside Burleson's New Buildings
A spider crane, a compact crawler crane (certain models fit through a doorway) that stands on spider-like outrigger legs, fits indoor and tight-access lifts in Burleson's new buildings: storefront glass, a mechanical unit in a finished room, or steel where no truck crane can reach. The City's budget message lists projects of that kind, from KMP Plumbing's planned corporate office and service center to the new Old Town shops and restaurants, and a police expansion sits among its GO bond projects. Indoors, the floor must carry the crane and load and the doors must pass it, and the makers offer battery models for indoor and sensitive spaces; the spider and mini crane page gives each example model's width and weight.
Rooftop Unit Lifts on Burleson Shops, Offices and Plants
HVAC crane service in Burleson lifts rooftop units (RTUs) on and off commercial roofs: self-contained heating and cooling boxes that rest on a roof curb, a raised steel frame fastened to the deck. The mechanical contractor does everything to the unit itself; we bring the lifting side, meaning the crane, its operator, the rigging plan and the pick. Trane's installation manual says to "Confirm with a structural engineer that the roof structure is strong enough to support the combined weight of the roofcurb, the unit, and any accessories," which applies to Burleson's new commercial roofs and to older roofs taking bigger units. Heat shapes the hours: the National Weather Service gives DFW Airport an average first 100-degree day of July 1, with the last coming, on average, August 27. Trane's unit weights by tonnage are tabled on the HVAC crane service page.
Lift Plans for Burleson Picks Beside Traffic and Over Roofs
A lift plan is the pick written out ahead of time: the load's weight and sling arrangement, the crane's parking spot, the reach and the height, the way signals pass, and what calls a halt. Along Wilshire, where TxDOT's SH 174 widening has lanes closed, traffic control devices around a crane must "conform to Part 6 of the MUTCD" under 29 CFR 1926.200(g), and the plan shows where the crane, barricades and swing area sit. A signal person, the worker who directs the operator by hand, voice or radio, is required under OSHA section 1926.1419 when the landing point "is not in full view of the operator," as on a plant roof behind a parapet. Who does what on a pick under OSHA's crane rules, from operator to dedicated spotter, is tabled on the rigging and lift planning page.
Heavy Haul and Machinery Moving for Burleson Jobs
Heavy haul means trucking a machine whose width, height or weight is over what Texas allows without a permit, and Burleson's two counties shape the route. On the Tarrant County side, TxDMV's curfew list restricts "Tarrant County All oversize vehicles" during "7 a.m. - 9 a.m. & 4 p.m. - 6 p.m." on weekdays, noting that "Mobile cranes are not affected." On the Johnson County side, TxDMV's list of local contacts carries a Cleburne entry: a mover with a load over 17 feet high must contact Oncor 48 hours ahead before using BU 67, SH 171 or SH 174 there, because of overhead lights and lines. Moves inside a finished plant use rigging or a compact crane rather than a trailer, as the heavy haul and machinery moving page explains.
Equipment for Burleson Lots, Utilities and Business Parks
Each machine below rents in day, week or month blocks, its delivery is priced separately, and it arrives with the manufacturer's operating information. In Burleson the work decides the machine: lot and street grading in the new subdivisions, trenching for the City's sewer and water projects, or lifting and stocking inside new business park buildings. Anyone driving a forklift, telehandler or aerial lift should hold the OSHA and ANSI/SAIA training for that machine, and we ask who will be driving before it ships.
Excavators for Burleson Sewer Lines and Lift Stations
Burleson's utility program is excavator work, sized from compact machines that fit between houses up to full-size machines for deep sewer mains. The City's FY26 capital list includes a trunk relief line in the Town Creek basin, a 12-inch wastewater line replacement in the Village Creek basin, sewer work for Chisholm West and Legacy Hill, and a lift station with a pressure main at FM 917 and 35W. Texas811 says the law calls for contacting 811 "at least two business days before excavating." Once a cut reaches 5 feet, 29 CFR 1926.652 requires shoring, a shield or sloping unless the walls are "entirely in stable rock." Mini, midi and full-size machines are compared on the excavator rental page.
Skid Steers and Track Loaders on Burleson Lots After Rain
Skid steers, compact loaders that turn by running one side's wheels faster than the other's, and compact track loaders, their cousins on rubber tracks, handle the grading, backfill and cleanup on Burleson's new lots and commercial sites. Wheels suit pavement and firm ground. Tracks spread the machine's weight, which counts on the "deep clayey, alkaline soils" the Handbook of Texas describes in the Blackland Prairie part of Johnson County once rain soaks them. Rubber-tired skid steers made after July 15, 2019 for construction need rollover protection under OSHA section 1926.1000. Bobcat and DEVELON loaders, wheeled and tracked, are compared by rated operating capacity under skid steer and track loader rentals.
Telehandlers for Burleson Framing and Roof Loads
A telehandler, a four-wheel-drive lifter whose forks ride on the end of an extending boom, carries pallets of framing, block and roofing to upper floors and roofs, which fits home and business park construction in Burleson, where the City counts 14 actively developing subdivision phases. The word telehandler is absent from the OSHA pages we read; its forklift eTool instead lists a Class VII "Variable reach type" that is "equipped with a telescoping boom," and 29 CFR 1926.602(d) brings the operator training and evaluation of section 1910.178(l) to construction sites. OSHA's June 21, 2012 letter treats equipment built as both crane and forklift as a crane "when configured, and operated as, a crane." The telehandler rental page tables what JLG and Bobcat models carry fully raised and fully extended.
Boom Lifts for Burleson Steel, Signs and Storefronts
A boom lift, a self-propelled work platform on an arm that is either jointed (articulating) or straight (telescopic), puts a worker beside steel connections, sign faces, canopies and storefront glass on Burleson's new commercial buildings. Wind sets the limit: at DFW Airport the National Weather Service's averages make April the windiest month, at 12.3 mph, and OSHA's fact sheet on aerial lifts rules out work "in high winds above those recommended by the manufacturer." That fact sheet also asks for at least 10 feet of clearance from overhead lines. Platform heights and outreach for the Haulotte and Skyjack examples are on the boom lift rental page.
Scissor Lifts for Burleson Plant, Office and Shop Interiors
A scissor lift lifts a railed deck vertically on a folding steel stack, and in Burleson it handles ceiling, lighting, sprinkler and duct work inside the plants, offices and shops the City's budget lists. A narrow battery model suits a finished slab, such as the interior of KMP Plumbing's planned office and service center or the police expansion on the City's bond list; a rough-terrain model with wider tires works on graded ground outside. Because OSHA regulates the machine under its mobile scaffold rules, guardrails rather than a harness are the fall protection, and OSHA's eTool says outdoor-rated units "are generally limited to wind speeds below 28 miles per hour." The scissor lift rental page lists the Haulotte and Skyjack decks by height and rated load.
Forklifts for Burleson's Business Park Plants and Yards
A forklift lifts and moves loads on two forks, and in Burleson that means the business parks, where the City's budget message credits HighPoint Business Park with "close to 2,000 jobs" and places a new bakery plant employing 450 new jobs. A cushion-tire truck suits a smooth plant or warehouse floor; a pneumatic-tire truck handles a yard or gravel lot; a rough terrain truck, OSHA's Class VII, works a site still under construction. Every operator needs the training in OSHA section 1910.178(l) and an evaluation "at least once every three years." The forklift rental page sets Hyster and Yale examples side by side.
Backhoes and Loaders for Burleson Street and Utility Work
A backhoe loader digs with an arm on the back and loads with a bucket on the front, which fits the service taps, short trenches and backfill around Burleson's street work, while a wheel loader moves base, fill and stockpiles in bulk. The City's FY26 capital list names a Hulen Street widening from SH 174 to Candler, the Hulen at Wilshire intersection, and the Wicker Hill and Greenridge reconstruction. Texas law counts backfilling as digging: Utilities Code section 251.002 defines "excavate" to include "backfilling" that disturbs soil "to a depth of 16 or more inches," so the Texas 811 call covers the backhoe too. The backhoe and loader rental page compares the CASE 580EV and 695SV backhoes with DEVELON's DL200-7 and DL280-7 loaders.
Dozers for Burleson's West Side and Business Park Grading
A dozer is a crawler tractor pushing a wide steel blade, and it clears land, cuts and fills building pads and spreads base for new streets, which is how open ground in Burleson becomes business park lots and subdivisions. The City's budget message describes a new master planned community on the west side expected to bring jobs, commercial activity and homes "over the next 20 years," and its 4A economic development budget funds West Side Infrastructure. The Handbook of Texas calls Johnson County's topography "level to gently sloping in the east," and grading near buried lines starts with a Texas 811 ticket. Crawler tractors also fall under OSHA's rollover protection rule in section 1926.1000. CASE and DEVELON blade capacities and widths are compared on the dozer rental page.
Permits, Highways and Airspace for Burleson Lifts
The City of Burleson's permit, engineering and code pages returned errors or blocked automated reading when we checked in October 2026, so this page quotes no Burleson right-of-way, street-closure, construction-hours or truck-route rule, and we do not borrow one from another city. Before a crane or machine is booked for a Burleson street or sidewalk, the City hears from us first, and its answer is relayed to you. The state highways through town, I-35W, US 81, SH 174 and Farm roads 731 and 3391, fall under TxDOT's Fort Worth District, which covers both Johnson and Tarrant counties. The state and federal rules behind each lift are in the crane permit guide.
Fort Worth Spinks Airport is the airfield to check for a tall Burleson lift. The City of Fort Worth places it 13 miles south of downtown Fort Worth, the Handbook places Burleson fourteen miles south of Fort Worth, and the City's Spinks Airport overview lists its paved runway and an FAA air traffic control tower. FAA airport data effective October 1, 2026 give Spinks an elevation of 700.4 feet and note a marked 100-foot power line 4,150 feet from that runway. Under 14 CFR 77.9, notice is due for anything "more than 200 ft. AGL at its site," as well as anything that pierces the runway's notice slope, and under 77.7 the FAA wants Form 7460-1 "at least 45 days before the start date of the proposed construction or alteration." Fort Worth's own street rules are on our Fort Worth page.
Overhead lines and buried utilities follow state law here as across Texas. The Health and Safety Code's chapter 752 bars any crane, load or boom lift "within six feet of a high voltage overhead line" until the line's operator has arranged clearance, and the operator must be told "at least 48 hours before the work begins"; OSHA's crane rule in section 1926.1408 adds its own 20-foot test for lines up to 350 kV. Underground, Texas 811 takes a locate request two business days ahead. Before a Burleson lift we check the site against those rules and spell out who arranges what.
Burleson FAQs
Do I need a City of Burleson permit to set up a crane on a street?
Possibly, but the City of Burleson's permit and right-of-way pages could not be read online in October 2026, so we will not guess at the rule. We raise it with the City while your dates are still flexible and add the City's answer to your written quote. On Wilshire Boulevard, which is SH 174, TxDOT's widening has lane closures in place, so a crane setup there is planned around TxDOT's work zone as well, through the project's expected completion in 2028.
Does a crane near Spinks Airport need FAA approval?
It may need FAA notice, which leads to an FAA determination rather than a permit. Under 14 CFR 77.9, notice covers anything "more than 200 ft. AGL at its site" and anything that breaks the runway notice slope around an airport like Spinks, whose paved runway the City of Fort Worth gives as 6,002 feet. The filing is FAA Form 7460-1, which 14 CFR 77.7 wants "at least 45 days before the start date" of the work. For each Burleson lift near the field, we run the site through those tests first and let you know if a notice must go in.
Is my Burleson job in Johnson County or Tarrant County, and does it matter?
It can be either: the Handbook of Texas places Burleson in "northern Johnson and southern Tarrant counties." The county matters most for oversize hauls, because TxDMV's weekday rush-hour curfew covers Tarrant County highways, while its local-contact list carries a Johnson County entry for tall loads in Cleburne. Sales tax does not change: the Texas Comptroller lists the same 8.25 percent total for both parts of the city. Send us the address and we will check which rules reach the site.
What should be ready before a crane arrives at a Burleson business park site?
A firm, drained and graded setup area, a clear route in and the load facts. OSHA section 1926.1402 makes the controlling entity responsible for ground preparation and for telling the crane user about voids, tanks or utilities shown in site drawings or soil reports. On a new pad that means compacted base where the outriggers or tracks will sit, no fresh trench beneath them, and room for the crane to swing. Send the load weight, the pick and set points, any overhead lines and the dates, and we will size the crane.
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