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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, steel erection, and commercial construction for Longview terminals, mills, and neighborhoods, one crew handling the lift and the build.
In Longview, Westmore runs the crane, erects the steel buildings, and signs as commercial general contractor on the work behind them. Crane and Rigging runs operated lifts across three crane classes, 55, 100, and 350 tons, rigging included and an NCCCO certified operator on every machine, covering rooftop HVAC changeouts, terminal and mill picks, machinery sets, and hot tubs going into backyards. The Construction and Steel side acts as commercial general contractor for pre-engineered metal building work, structural erection, and exterior finishing across the industrial districts and the commercial side of town. Mill and plant work here repeats rather than happening once, which is why the same crews come back for changeouts, maintenance picks, and the buildings that follow them.
Two things shape a Longview job before it starts. The first is paperwork: street work inside the city needs a right-of-way permit issued by Public Works Engineering at the City of Longview, filed with a traffic control plan behind it, and it belongs on the schedule at the beginning rather than the week before. The second is the site. The industrial districts are working ground, with rail, truck lanes, and berths that keep moving, and low riverfront soil gets evaluated before outriggers or a new foundation land on it. Send the address, the load or the project scope, and the hours the site can genuinely be handed over.
Six entry points, from a single operated pick to a commercial building run end to end.
Operated lifts at the terminals, out at Mint Farm, and on job sites across Cowlitz County, operator and rigging included.
Unit changeouts on mill, medical, and commercial roofs, timed to the hours a building can stand an open curb.
Spa, tub, and sauna sets for homeowners, flown into the yard and landed where the owner wants them.
Certified operators and their own gear for terminal cargo, mill equipment, and structural picks on live sites.
Pre-engineered frames raised and closed in for the industrial and commercial sites around the city.
Commercial general contracting from preconstruction through closeout, with the steel erection kept in-house.
Longview steel jobs are industrial jobs: clear span production and warehouse space, equipment enclosures, and shop buildings, all set on foundations poured to the bolt layout the engineered package specifies. The frame gets sized around whatever operates inside it, so crane hooks, racking heights, and door openings are settled before a package is ordered.
Who reviews the building depends on the parcel. A site inside the city limits takes its building permit and inspections from the City of Longview, while a parcel outside those limits is reviewed by Cowlitz County instead. Settle that at the start, because it sets the review path and the questions asked along the way. Send the parcel address with the footprint and the intended use and the filing can begin without waiting on a visit.
Commercial general contracting in this city starts well before the steel does. Preconstruction fixes the scope, the sequence, and the site logistics for a project at the port, at Mint Farm, or out at one of the plants, and getting that settled early is what stops an erection date moving twice.
Staging is usually the tight part. A crew here works next to operations that will not stop for anyone's construction schedule, which limits both the room to lay steel down and the hours it can be moved. Westmore settles those constraints with the owner before dates are fixed, then carries the trades, the erection, and the closeout under one contract. Bring your operating restrictions to the first meeting rather than the third.
On an industrial property the building work and the lifting are rarely separable. A frame goes up over an area that has to be fenced and empty; a piece of equipment comes out through that same opening a week later. Giving both to one company means one crew reads the site, one schedule holds the closures, and there is no argument on the morning about whose day it was supposed to be.
Where the marine terminals are involved, the lift window gets agreed with the berth and the rail traffic first, and the crane crew settles that directly with the site. The earlier question is the one worth bringing here: send the address, the hours the operation can genuinely give up, and one line saying if a building is part of it. The crew that owns that scope answers.
Mint Farm Industrial Park is the other industrial address in town, sitting inland from the terminals rather than on the water. For both divisions that makes it a district where the calendar belongs to you and the site, with no berth or tide to work a lift around. Dates get set against your own operating needs and the permit review, which is a much shorter conversation to have.
Most of the lift work out there is straightforward operated crane service: the crane, its operator, and the rigging arrive as one order for a builder who is already running the site. Equipment enclosures and shop buildings go up on the same ground under the construction side. Say which of the two you need, give the crew the piece weights, and name the gate a loaded trailer will use.
Fleet specs for the tonnage classes that reach a port terminal, a Mint Farm building site, or a backyard lift alike.
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.
Call with the load weight, the address, and the date you have in mind, or send the basics below and we call back within 24 hours.
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Yes. Longview, Kelso, Castle Rock, and Rainier, Oregon are all regular coverage, and the same three crane classes and NCCCO certified operators work in each. The construction division contracts commercial and industrial buildings on the same ground. Washington work runs under license WESTMCL836OJ and Oregon work under CCB 234945, both active with $1 million of liability coverage.
Firm, level ground for the outriggers, a clear boom path to the set point, and any overhead line or pipe rack in the way flagged in advance. Inside a plant or a terminal the site usually requires escorts and badging before a truck comes through the gate, and someone who can release the work area has to be available. Send site photos with the load weight.
Yes. A crane set is the normal answer when a spa will not fit through the gate: the load goes up from the street, over the fence or the roof, and down onto its pad in one visit. Longview yards run from tight in-town lots to open ground, so send the tub weight, the pad position, and a picture of the yard from the curb.
Yes. Both belong to the construction division, next to commercial general contracting. A manager in that role keeps the phases aligned, drives the permit filings and inspection sign-offs, and answers to the owner, while the owner signs the trade agreements. Preconstruction is the earlier piece: constructability review and budget work while the drawings are still moving.
Access clearance before anything else. Plant and terminal sites normally set their own rules for it: escorts, badging, and a lift plan their safety staff signs off on. The setup spot is usually fixed by rail, piping, or a live berth, so the lift plan gets built around what the site can release and when. NCCCO certified operators and $1 million liability coverage are standard on every job.
Yes. Westmore contracts commercial and industrial work in Longview as commercial general contractor, signs the trade contracts, and raises the steel with its own crews and machines. Work outside that scope goes to subcontractors the company has used before. Washington licensing is active, and the cranes and operators come off the same payroll.
The terminal district, Mint Farm, and the residential streets in between all draw on the same crews and cranes.
Send the Longview address with the piece weight or the building footprint, and say what hours the site can hand over. The scope comes back from there.
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