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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 commercial steel construction in Auburn, sized to the job and staffed by certified operators.
Two kinds of job come out of Auburn, and Westmore runs both. On the flat industrial ground of West Valley and North Auburn the calls are rooftop mechanical units, structural picks, machinery placements, and pre-engineered frames raised on large open pads. On the slopes of Lea Hill, Lakeland Hills, West Hill, and Hidden Valley a spa, a sauna, or a truss goes over the house because nothing can be walked around it. The crane, its rigging gear, and an NCCCO certified operator come as one package, in a 55, 100, or 350-ton class chosen off weight and radius together. Steel buildings here are erected and closed in by company crews.
Auburn asks for more before a machine goes up than its neighbors do, and it publishes exactly what. Anything in the right of way runs on a use permit, and the city furnishes no traffic control at all, so the plan, the signs, and the barricades come from the contractor along with a certificate of insurance naming the City. Airspace is the second layer: inside the verified airspace of the municipal airport, airport management is contacted at least 48 hours before a temporary crane is erected. Send the parcel address with what the load weighs, the radius, and the date being held.
Industrial pads on the valley floor and sloped lots above it generate four different jobs, and the setup point decides the machine on all four.
Structural members, tanks, transformers, and plant equipment rigged and set down on the West Valley industrial parcels.
A rooftop unit changed out on a manufacturing or warehouse roof, scheduled to the window the mechanical crew is holding.
A hot tub set over a house on a sloped Lea Hill or Lakeland Hills lot, landed square on its pad the first time.
Pre-engineered frames stood, plumbed, and closed in for industrial buildings, with the crane and its operator inside the erection scope.
Auburn is one of the few cities that publishes crane-specific airspace guidance. Inside the verified airspace around the municipal airport, airport management gets contacted at least 48 hours before a temporary crane or elevated platform is erected, and a notice to airmen follows that call. The city publishes a structure and equipment height limits map alongside the guidance.
Ground-level paperwork is separate and just as firm. The right-of-way use permit covers short-term use up to 30 days and long-term use beyond it, the applicant furnishes the traffic control plan and every sign and barricade because the city provides none, and the hold harmless has to be notarized. Auburn states that applications generally take about four weeks.
One clause in that packet is worth reading before an oversize component is ordered: where the permit authorizes an oversize move, the mover indemnifies the City and any franchisee for damage caused by lines and poles temporarily rearranged to let the load through. Westmore prepares and files that paperwork for its own crane work, so the permit navigation on a street set does not land on the customer.
The West Valley industrial parcels carry manufacturing and warehouse space at a scale measured in the millions of square feet, which sets the expectation for the steel here: long spans, tall eaves, and heavy roof plant. Westmore erects those frames and finishes the exterior. Westmore owns the machines and employs the crew that bolts the steel.
Taken as a whole project, that becomes commercial general contracting: preconstruction, the trades, the frame, the skin, and closeout on one contract, and the crane work on it comes from the same company. A builder already holding the job can buy steel erection or crane hours by themselves.
What the ground demands gets priced either way. The valley floor here is river and volcanic deposit between the White and the Green, held dry by the dam and the levee system upstream, so footings are engineered and winter access on a low parcel can shift between the site visit and the pick date. Outrigger mats answer the same question on lift day.
West Valley pads leave room for the 100 and 350-ton machines to set up and swing wide, while on a hillside lot the reach from the only level place a truck can stand is what picks the machine.
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, all three. The parcel decides the paperwork rather than the mailing address, which matters more here than in most cities: Auburn sits mostly in King County with part of it crossing into Pierce County, and Algona and Pacific run their own desks along the south edge. Confirm the jurisdiction first, because the review timeline follows from it. Name the parcel first, and the weight and the radius after that.
Yes, when the setup falls inside the verified airspace around Auburn Municipal Airport. The city publishes guidance for temporary cranes and elevated work platforms telling operators to contact airport management at least 48 hours before the machine is erected, after which a notice to airmen is issued. Federal Form 7460-1 is filed at least 45 days ahead where the Part 77 triggers apply, so height gets settled at bid time.
The contractor brings everything. Auburn states that the city does not provide traffic control, so the applicant supplies the plan to MUTCD standards along with the signs and barricades for any street, sidewalk, or parking closure. A certificate of insurance with the City named as additional insured has to be on file before the permit issues, plus a notarized hold harmless. The city says review generally runs about four weeks.
Radius decides it. On a graded hillside lot the level spot the machine can stand on sets the reach, and the reach sets the class, because a crane rating drops as the boom works farther out. The load itself is light next to what any of the three classes will pick up. A photo from the street plus the pad location fixes both the class and where the truck goes.
The class, the working radius, and the time the machine stays committed to the site. Anything in the right of way adds the permit, the traffic control the contractor has to furnish, and the review the city runs before issuing. Airspace notification near the airport adds lead time rather than equipment. A structural pick on an open West Valley pad and a hillside spa set differ on every one of those.
Westmore does both here. The construction and steel division contracts commercial buildings, puts up the frame with its own erection crew, and finishes the skin, with cranes coming from the same company. West Valley building stock runs to large-format manufacturing and warehouse space, which is pre-engineered steel work. Auburn reviews commercial building permits through Community Development and the shared regional permit portal.
Lea Hill and Lakeland Hills are hill work, West Valley and North Auburn are flat industrial ground, and Algona and Pacific file with their own cities. Every one of them is inside the area covered from this page.
Two numbers size an Auburn lift: what the piece weighs and the reach from the truck to where it lands. The parcel decides the rest, which desk reviews the work and whether the airport gets a call before the boom goes up.
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