Jib Boom Lift Financing

The secondary jib is the extension on the end of the main boom that lets the platform go places the primary structure cannot reach alone. Without it, a standard telescopic boom delivers platform height in a straight line from the pivot. Add a jib and you get a second articulation point at the top of the stick, which means the platform can clear an overhang, reach around a column, or approach from an angle that the main boom geometry cannot achieve on its own. Booms with auxiliary jib attachments are common on mid-class articulating units, and some telescopic booms in the 60-to-85-foot class come with rotating jib options that add 3 to 8 feet of additional reach with full side rotation. The JLG 800AJ and the Genie Z-80 both offer auxiliary jib configurations. Used units with jib capability in the 60-to-80-foot range sell for $70,000 to $130,000 depending on configuration and hours. We fund boom lifts with jib extensions from $50,000, new or used, B or C credit is fine, and we close in roughly two weeks.

Short-doc to $400,000. Short application, decision in a day, machine on site before your project starts.

What the Jib Actually Adds

A secondary jib on a boom lift is technically an add-on articulation that rotates the platform mounting point independently of the main boom angle. On a typical auxiliary jib configuration, the jib assembly can tilt 70 to 90 degrees from the horizontal, and on rotating jib models, it can also swing 160 degrees or more in azimuth. That combination lets the operator fine-position the platform around obstacles, pipe racks, structural steel, and building corners in ways that repositioning the whole machine would take ten minutes to accomplish.

In practical terms, the jib is what lets a crew hang ductwork over an existing pipe rack in a plant, install a sign around the corner of a building facade, or reach the back face of a steel column from a single setup position without moving the chassis. On construction projects where repositioning involves driving across active work areas, getting mats approved by the GC, or waiting for a clear path, the ability to reach more of the work from one setup location has real productivity value. Mechanical and HVAC contractors in particular use jib-equipped articulating booms to reach over pipe racks and cable trays in plant mechanical rooms without repositioning for each run of duct or conduit.

The tradeoff with a jib configuration is platform capacity. Unrestricted capacity ratings generally apply when the jib is not extended or is held at a specific angle. As the jib extends and rotates, the load chart restricts the allowable platform load. Operators need to understand the load chart on a jib boom before they put two workers and a full material load in the platform at an offset angle. This is a machine where reading the manual matters for safety, not just efficiency. The JLG 800AJ jib load chart, for instance, shows capacity reductions at extended jib angles that a crew needs to account for before loading the platform.

For jobs that require the full jib capability of a true articulating boom rather than a jib extension, our page on articulating boom lift financing covers the broader class in depth.

Which Applications Justify a Jib Boom

Sign installation companies are among the most consistent buyers of jib-equipped booms. Reaching around a building corner to mount a sign cabinet, or accessing the back face of a monument sign structure from the street, requires the secondary articulation that a jib provides. The crew can position the chassis on the street or parking lot and rotate the jib around the face of the sign location without repositioning the machine.

Industrial and plant maintenance crews do a lot of work in the congested overhead environment of an operating facility, where pipe runs, cable trays, and structural steel fill the space between the floor and the ceiling. A jib-equipped boom lets the platform navigate around those obstacles to reach valves, instruments, and structural connection points that a straight boom cannot access without a second machine or scaffolding.

Steel erectors and connection crews use jib-equipped articulating booms to position workers at connection points on complex structural configurations where the approach angle matters as much as the height. Getting a worker precisely to a bolted flange on a diagonal beam connection is a jib problem more than it is a height problem. On large commercial projects, owning the jib-equipped unit means the erection crew is not competing with other subs for a rental yard's limited inventory of jib-configured machines during busy construction seasons.

Rental companies that carry jib-equipped booms charge a rate premium over standard articulating units in the same reach class because demand is consistent and the units are more capable per machine than a non-jib configuration. An equipment rental company that stocks two or three jib-equipped units at the 60-to-80-foot class earns incremental revenue from that premium on every rental cycle.

How We Fund Jib Boom Deals

Jib-equipped booms underwrite the same way any other aerial boom does. We look at the machine's market value, your revenue as shown by recent bank statements on larger deals, and your credit history. The jib configuration does not add complexity to the underwriting or change the timeline. Short-doc to $400,000 means short application and an answer in a day. Above that threshold, bank statements are the incremental document requirement.

If you are buying a used jib-equipped boom where the jib attachment is a separate accessory rather than factory-built, we can in some cases finance the machine and the attachment as a package. The attachment needs to be properly documented and the combined value needs to clear our $50,000 floor. Let us know the deal structure when you apply and we will tell you how to handle it.

For buyers adding to an existing fleet that already has a boom on a note with us, refinancing the existing unit while adding the new jib-equipped boom can sometimes simplify the payment structure. A boom lift refinance on the existing unit combined with a new loan on the jib machine can produce a single payment that is cleaner to manage than two separate notes at different terms.

B and C credit is eligible on jib boom deals. We have funded operators across a wide credit spectrum and we do not use the score as a simple cutoff. Cash flow, down payment, and the machine's collateral value tell us more than the score does in most cases.

Get Your Jib Boom Financed

Tell us the machine and the jib configuration. We fund boom lifts with jib extensions from $50,000, new or used, and we close in roughly two weeks. Short application, B or C credit is fine, short-doc to $400,000. Send us the deal and we will respond with terms the same day.