Thanks for the solid advice Axe. We have a portable generator/fab/welding trailer that we will use.
I don't sweat these guys, been working with hardcore blue collar types my whole life, and am aware of the armchair internet posers out there. Many are cooler online, it's just the nature of the forum.
I asked the crane/treework master (my dad) about the jib/gin pole thing, he said they always called it a jib, like a crane extension with a pulley, even when he did line clearance and residential work commercially with Asplundh.