To shorten time required for carrying a cargo, by shortening time for scooping and unloading the cargo.

This lifting device has a placing table 16 for placing the cargo, a long wire rope for suspending the placing table 16, a winch motor 17 lifting the placing table 16 by driving the wire rope, an upper sensor state acquiring part 43 and a lower sensor state acquiring part 44 for acquiring starting information of indicating that an elongation quantity of the wire rope starts to change by weight of the cargo and finishing information of indicating that a change in the elongation quantity of the wire rope by the weight of the cargo finishes, and a winch motor control part 41 driving the winch motor 17 faster than a first speed in at least a part up to finishing the change in the elongation quantity after starting the change in the elongation quantity by driving the winch motor 17 at the first speed up to starting the change in the elongation quantity.