80 ft Boom Lift Financing

Eighty feet of platform changes the kind of work you can bid. A job that needs to reach the fifth or sixth floor of a commercial building, dress the face of a grain elevator, or get a crew to the underside of a highway overpass is an 80-foot job. The Genie S-80 and JLG 800S are the two machines that own this height class in the North American market: 80-foot platforms, 70-plus feet of horizontal reach, and 500-pound unrestricted capacity in a chassis that still transports on a standard lowboy. Both run used somewhere in the $120k–$200k band depending on hours and drive configuration, well within what we fund.

We finance 80-foot booms from the $50,000 floor on up, new or used, for purchase, lease, refinance, or sale-leaseback. B and C credit is considered. Short-doc to around $400,000. Most deals fund in a week to two weeks from the point we have the paperwork together. If you know the machine, tell us the deal and we will tell you what it looks like in a day.

The step from 65 to 80 feet is not just reach. The machine gets bigger, heavier, and slower to set up. Ground-bearing pressure at full extension on an 80-foot boom is meaningfully higher than at the 65-foot class, which means soft-ground sites need matting or outrigger pads that smaller machines do not require. This is worth knowing before you specify the machine for a job with marginal soil conditions.

The Genie S-80 runs a Deutz or Cummins diesel depending on configuration and production year. Drive on grade is 40 percent on the 4WD version. Stowed height is just under 9 feet on most variants, which allows most highway underpasses for transport. Machine weight is around 33,000 pounds in standard configuration, so your transport plan needs to account for bridge weight ratings and road restrictions in rural corridors.

The JLG 800S is roughly similar in envelope and weight. The 800S has a well-documented service history and strong parts availability, which matters when you are buying used. Both machines have platform extensions available for light-duty additional reach, though you pay a capacity penalty in restricted mode when the extension is deployed.

For indoor-outdoor jobs, the dual-fuel configuration lets the machine work inside an occupied building on electric drive and switch to diesel outside. True electric-only 80-foot booms exist but are less common in this height class than at 60 feet, and battery range at full-load operation is shorter. Know your job before spec'ing pure electric at this height.

Industrial plant maintenance is a natural market. Refineries, chemical plants, and heavy manufacturing facilities regularly use 80-foot booms during planned maintenance outages. The machine gets to overhead process piping, reactor vessels, and structural steel at elevations that smaller booms cannot safely access. Industrial and plant maintenance contractors who specialize in turnaround work often own their machines rather than competing for rental units during a window when every unit in the region is already committed.

Bridge maintenance and highway work is another consistent use case. Bridge decks and understructures on many interstate overpasses fall in the 60 to 85-foot working-height range from ground level, and the 80-foot boom is the machine that gets inspection and maintenance crews where they need to be. General contractors with DOT contracts frequently own 80-foot equipment for exactly this reason.

Equipment rental companies that serve industrial and large commercial accounts need 80-foot units in inventory. An 80-foot boom rents for $5,000 to $8,000 per month in most industrial markets. A unit that runs 60 percent utilization over the year is a strong performer, and a fleet addition at this height class often pencils when the rental demand data supports it. See our equipment line of credit option if you are adding multiple units to a yard over a 12 to 24-month cycle.

Short-doc to around $400,000 is where most 80-foot boom deals land. Recent operating bank statements is the standard documentation package for that tier. If the deal is above $400,000, typically for a multi-unit order or a very late-model machine, we may ask for a P&L or tax return, but that is not the common case.

B and C credit is considered on its merits. A score in the 580 to 640 range does not automatically result in a decline. We look at time in business (two or more years is helpful), cash flow relative to the proposed payment, and the strength of the asset. A clean-titled, documented machine with verifiable hours is a better collateral story than a machine with uncertain service history, regardless of credit tier.

If you have a prior repo, a tax lien, or a bankruptcy that discharged more than two years ago, those are not automatic declines either. Present the situation fully on the application. We have funded operators in those circumstances when the business cash flow and the asset told a good enough story. The bad-credit boom lift financing page covers more on how we approach challenged-credit deals.

Give us the machine info, the purchase price or the asking number, and your basic business profile. We respond the same day with a structure. From there, approvals move in one to two business days and funding follows fast. No need to explain to a bank what an 800S is. Fill out the application or call the desk.