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55-Ton Class
The right size for HVAC units, hot tubs and spas, beams, and tight residential or commercial sites where a bigger crane cannot set up.
Crane lifts and steel shop buildings on Brush Prairie acreage, with the crane matched to your access before it rolls.
Crane service in Brush Prairie is acreage service, and Westmore erects the steel shops and outbuildings those properties need. Hot tubs and spas land at the end of long driveways, equipment and tanks get rigged onto rural pads, and rooftop units go up on shop and small commercial roofs. One price covers the truck, an NCCCO certified operator, and every piece of rigging the pick needs, never a machine parked at your gate for someone else to work out. The fleet runs to 350 tons at the top and 55 at the bottom, and the pick between classes happens once Westmore knows what the load weighs and how much room the gate, the driveway, and the yard actually leave.
Brush Prairie and Hockinson are unincorporated, so street use and over-legal load approvals come from Clark County Public Works rather than a city engineering counter, and Westmore files that when a route calls for it. Most acreage picks stay entirely on private ground, which puts the real questions on the property: gate width, gravel or paved, how soft the driveway gets in the wet months, and what crosses overhead between the road and the pad. Answer those on the phone and the crane class is settled before a date gets held, which is why a booked Brush Prairie morning tends to stay booked.
Acreage lots and rural shops call for a different mix than a city block: loads that have to travel over a fence, up a roofline, or down a long gravel drive.
The boom reaches the backyard pad from the driveway, so no truck crosses the lawn and no fence section has to come down.
The same crew that raises commercial steel puts up shop and outbuilding frames on acreage, crane included rather than hired in.
A rural shop roof set well back off the road still gets its unit landed or swapped in a single boom-truck visit.
Lots here are large and set well back, so the distance between a safe truck position and the spot the load must reach is usually the deciding number. Westmore asks for gate width, driveway surface, and anything crossing overhead on the approach, then assigns a class that can make the reach from safe footing. Settling that on the phone is what keeps a lift to a single visit.
Gravel is the other variable. A drive that carries a pickup all summer can rut under an outrigger in February, so mats go down where the ground calls for them and the truck stages on the firmest footing rather than the closest. If your drive has a soft stretch you already know about, name it, and it gets planned around instead of discovered on the day.
Permits rarely enter into a pick on private ground, but when a setup or a route touches a county road, Clark County Public Works issues the approval and Westmore prepares the filing. Rural sites in Hockinson run through that same county process, with the identical crew and tonnage classes behind them, so nothing has to be re-arranged for a job on that side.
A shop or outbuilding on acreage runs through the same crew that erects Westmore's commercial steel and carries the commercial construction contract, cranes included rather than hired in. Frame, cladding, and picks share one schedule and one contract, and no part of the job waits on a subcontracted crane to free up a date that suits everybody.
Start with the footprint, the door heights, and what you intend to store in it. Westmore will tell you what the ground, the setbacks, and the access allow before drawings get expensive, and the same conversation covers the lifts the finished building needs later, a rooftop unit or equipment going in through the door.
A tight gravel driveway and a wide-open rural building site call for different crane classes.
The right size for HVAC units, hot tubs and spas, beams, and tight residential or commercial sites where a bigger crane cannot set up.
The workhorse for steel erection, precast and tilt panels, transformers, vaults, and rooftop equipment on commercial jobs.
Heavy and long-reach picks: generators, large mechanical equipment, and lifts that have to clear a building from the street.
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Yes, both. The work out here happens on acreage: spas landed behind houses that sit well back from the road, shops and barns framed in steel, equipment rigged into places a truck cannot back into. Every machine in the fleet is available, and each one comes with a certified operator. Photograph the driveway and note what the pick weighs.
Only if a county road is used for something other than traffic. Brush Prairie and Hockinson are unincorporated, so a setup occupying a road, or an over-legal transport reaching a rural parcel, is permitted through Clark County Public Works instead of a city engineering department. What triggers the filing is where the outriggers, the truck, and any delivery trailer actually land.
Yes. Houses here sit far back on large lots, so a delivery truck often cannot get within reach of the pad. The machine parks where the gravel or the grade will carry outriggers, then swings the tub over the roofline or the landscaping and lowers it into place. Fencing stays up and nothing has to be taken apart.
By crane, the same way a spa goes over a house. A condenser or packaged unit is rigged from the boom and landed on its curb, with machine, operator, and rigging in one booking. Unit weight and roof height pick the class, and the setup point is chosen from wherever the driveway or the yard will carry outriggers.
Westmore holds both roles, commercial general contractor and erector, on one agreement. The metal building package is put up by company crews, exterior work runs under the same contract, and the crane raising the frame is company equipment. One contract covers the structure and every pick it takes, so a rural build does not hand off between an erector and a crane company.
The reach usually decides it, not the weight of the tub. A boom loses lifting capacity as it goes out and up, so a spa set from the street across a deep front yard can need a heavier class than a load picked close to the truck. Ground bearing under the pads is the second constraint. The smallest machine is rated 55 tons and the largest 350.
Weight, reach, the ground at the setup point, and the machine those three call for. A long driveway that will not carry the bigger equipment can reshape a plan more than the load itself does. Street occupancy adds a county filing and a traffic control plan to the scope. Send the weight, the pad location, and photographs of the approach.
All six of these names sit inside the same Brush Prairie coverage, crane work and construction alike.
Give us the tonnage, the reach from a safe truck position, and what the driveway surface is doing this time of year. That is enough to name a crane class and hold a date.
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