JLG 800S Boom Lift Financing

Eighty feet of platform height. Seventy-five feet of horizontal outreach. The JLG 800S is the machine you reach for when the job breaks past the seven-story mark and you need to hold a two-person crew at height for a full shift without repositioning every hour. The 800S weighs roughly 37,000 pounds in diesel trim, runs 4WD, and handles the kind of mixed-grade, soft-ground sites that mid-rise commercial construction produces in its early phases. Drive speed is around 4.5 mph on the ground, which matters when the site is large and setup locations are spread out.

Used 800S booms trade widely. Clean low-hour examples can push $150,000 or more. Mid-hour units somewhere in the $80k–$110k band are common in the rental-return market. High-hour machines start below $60,000 and go down from there. New machines exceed $170,000 in most configurations. Every one of those price points either clears our $50,000 floor or lands in the short-doc range under $400,000. We close in roughly two weeks with three months of statements and the one-page app. B and C credit are welcome here.

If you are buying a fleet of 800S units for a rental yard, talk to us about an equipment line of credit rather than individual deals. A line lets you pull machines as your rental demand grows without reapplying each time. For a single machine, a standard equipment loan puts you on title from day one with no usage restrictions.

Platform height of 80 feet means working height of 86 feet. The 75-foot outreach lets the operator reach across a typical mid-rise floor plate edge without setting up directly below the work. That is critical on steel erection work where the area directly below the lift point is often blocked by columns, footings, or stored material.

The 800S runs an unrestricted platform capacity of 1,000 pounds and a restricted capacity of 500 pounds. Restricted means the platform is extended beyond a set angle from vertical, where stability math limits the load. At unrestricted positions, two workers with tools and modest material loads are fine. The 45-degree jib on equipped models gives another four or five feet of up-and-over articulation above the primary boom. That jib is what lets a curtain-wall crew reach behind a parapet without a second repositioning.

Steel erectors and structural contractors are the core buyers of 800-foot-class telescopic booms. The reach and capacity combination handles iron placement at height better than most alternatives. Roofing contractors working on mid-rise commercial buildings also run the 800S when they need to stage material to a roof that is past scissor lift height.

Rental yards stock the 800S because it rents well and rents at higher daily rates than the 60-foot class. The machine earns more per day, which means the financing payment makes up a smaller fraction of the revenue it generates. A well-utilized 800S in a rental fleet can be a strong unit economically despite the higher acquisition cost.

Specialty contractors who own rather than rent the 800S typically run it on extended projects where the rental cost over months would exceed the ownership cost. A bridge rehab project running six months, a multi-story facade restoration, or a stadium repair job are examples where owning the machine makes more financial sense than paying daily rental rates. Those buyers often finance the purchase and then run a sale-leaseback later to recover equity when the project finishes and they do not need the machine sitting in the yard.

We fund both buyer types on the same terms. The rental yard gets the same short-doc process as the specialty contractor. The key variable is the business cash flow in the statements, not the specific use of the machine.

An 800S with 2,000 hours that you bought outright three years ago may hold $80,000 to $100,000 in current market value. That equity sits dormant until you either sell the machine or access it through a cash-out equipment refinance. A cash-out refi puts that number or a portion of it into your account while keeping the machine working. The machine stays on your job site. The payment is structured off the new balance.

If you prefer a lease structure, a sale-leaseback achieves the same result: we buy the machine from you at a negotiated value, lease it back to you on a term you choose, and you keep using it without interruption. The cash goes to working capital, a new machine purchase, a down payment on something else, or whatever the business needs at that moment.

Both structures run through the same one-page app and three months of bank statement process. We do not require the machine to be debt-free for a cash-out refi; we look at the current payoff and the current value and structure around the equity gap.

The JLG 860SJ adds a jib above the primary 80-foot boom, pushing working height past 90 feet with articulation capability that lets the operator reach over obstacles the straight 800S cannot. The JLG 1200SJP and 1350SJP are the machines for jobs where the 800S falls short on height. Those are larger machines with proportionally higher tickets, but they clear through our program the same way. For buyers who want the 80-foot reach class but need an articulating knuckle rather than straight extension, the JLG 800AJ is the matching articulating model. It covers similar height with more flexibility on approach angle.

The full JLG brand page covers every model we fund. We also fund the equivalent Genie S-80 and S-85 models on the same terms if you are comparing across brands before you commit to iron.

A short application and recent statements, an answer in about a day, keys in roughly two weeks. New, used, private-party, rental-return. B and C credit runs through our program. Tell us the machine and the number.