Barnhart Crane to Acquire Sicklesteel Cranes

Barnhart Crane has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Sicklesteel Cranes Inc., based in Mount Vernon, Wash., as consolidation continues in the crane rental industry.

Michael Roth

June 30, 2015

2 min read

Sicklesteel Cranes acquired by Barnhart Crane includes Terex crane products in its inventory — Sicklesteel Cranes, acquired by Barnhart Crane, includes Terex crane products in its inventory.

Barnhart Crane has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Sicklesteel Cranes Inc., based in Mount Vernon, Wash., as consolidation continues in the crane rental industry. Sicklesteel Cranes, which has 50 employees and a fleet of 56 cranes, will continue to operate as Sicklesteel, but will have full access to Barnhart’s national network of equipment engineers and branches.

As part of the transaction, Barnhart will also be acquiring Pacific Tower Crane, an affiliated company of Sicklesteel. In addition to its Mount Vernon branch, Sicklesteel Cranes has locations in Tacoma, Wash., and Portland, Ore.

Through Barnhart’s coast-to-coast network, Sicklesteel Cranes customers will have access to Barnhart’s innovative rigging systems, wind turbine up-tower services, project cargo logistics capabilities, and a department of more than 40 engineers.

“Sicklesteel Cranes’ reputation and history is one of excellence,” said Alan Barnhart, CEO of Barnhart. “This acquisition will allow customers to receive a broader range of services that should help them lower overall project costs. We think customers throughout the Pacific Northwest will be very pleased with the expansion of services they will experience through this acquisition.”

Barnhart, with nearly 40 branches, offers operated crane rental, rigging services, outage planning, specialized solutions for component replacement, industrial storage and national project cargo logistics. The company is based in Memphis, Tenn.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.