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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 and steel work for Camas contractors, businesses, and homeowners, from the port industrial park to Prune Hill.
Camas is covered by both halves of Westmore: crane service on one side, and on the other steel buildings plus commercial general contracting. Crane and Rigging sends an operated lift, from a 55 ton truck up to the 350 ton Grove, operator and rigging bundled into one order and every operator NCCCO certified: rooftop HVAC changeouts, structural steel and machinery picks at the industrial park, hot tubs or swim spas going into hillside backyards. Construction and Steel takes the commercial general contracting work, meaning pre-engineered metal buildings, structural erection, and the exterior finish, from a new shop building through an addition onto a plant that never stops running. Both divisions answer one phone, so a build that needs a crane does not need a second company.
Two details are worth settling before a Camas job gets a date. The first is the street: a lift or a delivery that occupies the roadway is permitted by City of Camas Public Works, and that application gets prepared inside the booking rather than handed back to you. The second is the ground. Industrial land near the river is flat and open, while lots on the hills above the lakes carry grades that decide where a crane can level up at all, or if it can. Send the address, a photo of the approach, and either the weight of the load or the scope of the build.
The crane and building services Camas contractors, plant managers, and homeowners call for most.
Operated lifts sized to the load and the ground, with the operator and rigging quoted in from the start.
Pre-engineered frames, structural erection, and the panel work that closes a shell in, handled by one crew.
Commercial general contracting and preconstruction for Camas owners, from a new shop to an addition onto a working plant.
Rooftop unit changeouts on Camas commercial and industrial buildings, planned around a real wind window rather than a guess.
Tubs, spas, and saunas set on sloped Camas lots where carrying one down by hand was never going to happen.
Beams, panels, transformers, and vaults picked and placed by certified operators with the gear already on the truck.
Camas steel work takes a fairly predictable shape: clear span warehouse and manufacturing space, shop buildings framed around equipment bays and overhead doors, and the panel work that seals each shell against the weather. Westmore puts the frame up with in-house crews and self-performs the exterior finish, so no frame stands open waiting for another company to arrive and close it.
Where a Camas project gets interesting is the building stock. On the river side, the older industrial structures are usually taking an addition, a replacement bay, or a mechanical upgrade. The newer manufacturing and office campuses want the same clear span in a shell that has to match what is already standing next to it. Say which of the two describes your building and the drawings start from the right assumptions.
Building in Camas often means building next to production that will not pause for it. On an addition or a replacement bay at a plant running continuously, the schedule gets written backward from the few hours the operation can give up: when a wall can be opened, when power can be dropped, when a lane can be closed to staff traffic. Westmore carries the trade subcontractors and the inspections inside those hours rather than beside them.
Holding to that is far easier when one company owns the sequence. Steel erection and the crane are Westmore's own, so a window that slides by a week slides once instead of being renegotiated with an erector and a machine owner separately. Put the operating restrictions on the table at the first meeting, in writing if the plant keeps them that way, and the phase plan gets built on them.
A crane job in the Port of Camas-Washougal industrial park almost never means an open yard. It means threading between buildings, truck lanes, and parking that belong to other tenants, so the lift plan has to account for who else needs to move that day. The crew asks for your site contact and the park's access rules before a date gets confirmed.
The approach counts for as much as the pick itself. Where the truck can stage, if a lane can be coned off for an hour, and what setback the crane needs from the load are all settled on a walk or from photographs first. Send pictures of the setup area and the way in, and you get the crane class and a date together.
Prune Hill and the lots above Lacamas Lake and Round Lake carry grades steep enough that where the crane levels up is the entire problem rather than a detail. Most Camas residential lifts land on ground like that, and a spa nobody could carry down a slope goes over the house in one clean pick instead.
Cribbing, mats, and outrigger position get worked out before a truck is scheduled, because a driveway that looks fine from the street can be too steep to level on. A couple of photos from the curb, the weight of the spa or unit, and where the pad sits are enough to tell you whether yours is a straightforward set.
From a Prune Hill hot tub to a rooftop unit at the port industrial park, Camas jobs draw from the same three cranes.
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.
One call covers crane size, the permit, and the schedule. Or send the basics below and we call back within 24 hours.
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Two things set it: whether the setup touches public ground, and the weather. A lift kept behind the property line skips city review entirely. A street or sidewalk setup needs a City of Camas encroachment permit reviewed in advance. Wind at the mouth of the Gorge can push a marginal date onto a backup day. Send the load weight and the site address.
Yes, wind can. Camas sits at the western mouth of the Columbia River Gorge, where the National Weather Service issues high wind warnings for sustained winds around 30 to 45 mph with much stronger gusts in the worst stretches. Load charts derate as wind speed rises, so a lift gets a wind window built into the plan and a backup date when the forecast is marginal.
Three things settle it: what the unit weighs, the height of the roof, and how far back the lot forces the machine. A crane gives up capacity the farther the boom has to stretch, so one working from a parking lot or the street across a parapet needs more machine than its weight alone implies. The heaviest machine here is a 350 ton Grove, and there are 100 ton and 55 ton classes under it. Include the unit weight with a photo of the curb and the roof edge.
Clear span and eave height come first, since both change the frame the manufacturer engineers. Openings are next: every overhead door, dock, and window changes framing and skin. Then the parcel, because grading, drainage, and foundation work vary from a flat industrial pad to a sloped lot. Finish level after the shell is closed in accounts for the rest of the difference.
Westmore pulls it on a project it contracts. A steel building inside the city is permitted through City of Camas, reviewed against the site plan and the engineering stamped for the package, and inspections follow that same review. On an erection-only job the permit sits with whoever holds the site contract.
Yes. Prune Hill lots often sit on grade, so the crane parks on the firmest level ground it can reach and sets the tub, swim spa, or sauna onto the pad from above the roofline. Grade under the outriggers, tree cover, and the distance from that parking spot to the pad decide the machine. Photos from the street and from the pad settle most of it.
Hilltop lots, lakeside streets, and the rural edge north of town all get the same crews and cranes as the industrial park.
Send the Camas address with either the load weight or the building scope, and the answer comes back as a crane class or a sequence, not a range.
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