The wall-mounted jib crane is consisting of a bracket support structure fixed to the wall or anchored to a pillar with staybolts  or screws and a boom slewing around an axis placed on the bracket itself.

The column-mounted jib crane is consisting of a self-supporting column and of a boom slewing around the axis placed on the column itself. The column allows a high rigidity and stability of the crane and it is fixed to the base through a base-plate and a bolt and log bolt assembly.