Rent Grove
Equipment in Canada

Grove Cranes has spent more than seven decades defining what it means to lift heavy loads safely, efficiently, and with unmatched precision. Founded in 1947 in the small town of Shady Grove, Pennsylvania, the company began by engineering hydraulic mobile cranes at a time when most competitors were still relying on older mechanical designs. That early commitment to hydraulic innovation gave Grove a technical edge that it has never surrendered, and the Shady Grove manufacturing campus remains the beating heart of North American crane production to this day.

In 1999, Manitowoc Company acquired Grove, folding the brand into one of the world's most powerful lifting portfolios alongside Potain and National Crane. Rather than dilute the Grove identity, Manitowoc invested heavily in its engineering teams and expanded the product line. The result is the GMK series of all-terrain cranes - a lineup that has become virtually synonymous with modern crane rental in North America. GMK models combine multi-axle carrier designs with sophisticated MEGAFORM boom technology, allowing operators to achieve impressive radius-to-capacity ratios that translate directly into fewer crane moves and faster project timelines on congested urban job sites.

Canadian contractors have long regarded Grove as a reliable workhorse for everything from bridge deck placements across the Prairies to high-rise tower construction in the density corridors of the Greater Toronto Area and Metro Vancouver. The rugged GRT rough-terrain series addresses the unpaved, often frost-heaved ground conditions common on Canadian resource and infrastructure sites, where stability on soft or uneven surfaces can be the difference between a productive day and a costly incident. Grove's outrigger designs and load-moment indicators are engineered to meet the strict provincial safety standards that govern crane operations from British Columbia to Newfoundland.

The GMK6300L, one of Grove's flagship all-terrain models, delivers 300-tonne capacity on a six-axle carrier and has found a home on some of Canada's most challenging petrochemical and modular construction projects in Alberta's Industrial Heartland. Operators appreciate the Manitowoc Crane Control System (CCS), a unified platform that standardizes cab layout and diagnostics across the entire Grove fleet, reducing training time when crews rotate between different GMK models on large multi-crane projects.

Grove's relationship with Canadian dealers, particularly through Strongco's national branch network, ensures that parts, service technicians, and rigging engineering support are accessible whether a project is located in the suburbs of Calgary or a remote northern site accessible only by winter road. For Canadian rental houses and crane owners building a fleet that clients trust by name, Grove remains the benchmark against which every competing all-terrain crane is measured.