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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 for Kelso campuses and industrial ground, plus steel buildings carried from concrete to finish by one contractor.
Crane service in Kelso runs on two kinds of buildings and one kind of yard, and Westmore erects the steel buildings on them and carries the commercial construction too. Medical and institutional campuses need mechanical equipment set on roofs and inside plant rooms, usually on a live site where the work has to happen without shutting the building down. Wood-products and industrial facilities need heavier rigging: tanks, gearboxes, conveyor sections, structural steel. Homeowners on the hillside lots need a spa or sauna cleared over the house. An NCCCO certified operator runs every pick and the rigging travels with the machine, so the quote covers the whole lift rather than the crane alone.
Kelso is strict about street work, and the ground is the other variable. Any crane occupying a street, alley, sidewalk, or public right of way requires a Civil Engineering Permit from the City Engineer, and it has to arrive with both a traffic control plan and a site plan. Westmore assembles those; they are not left as homework for the owner. Hillside lots here can sit on unstable slope ground, while some of the flat commercial ground near the water was built up on river dredge fill, and neither is a place to guess at outrigger loads. Weight, required reach, and pictures of the driveway plus the intended set point are what a quote needs.
Four scopes cover most of what gets called in here, from a live medical campus to a spa on a sloped backyard.
Rooftop units and mechanical gear flown onto an occupied building without closing the doors underneath it.
Tanks, gearboxes, conveyor sections, and structural steel rigged into position inside a working facility.
A spa or sauna lifted clean over the house when the side yard is too tight to roll anything through.
A commercial frame raised, bolted up, and closed in without a second company brought in to set the steel.
A good share of Kelso's residential ground climbs, and some of that hillside carries known slope instability. That changes a spa or beam lift from a scheduling question into a setup question: where the outriggers can bear, whether the driveway grade lets a loaded truck turn, and how much distance the machine needs from a soft edge to stay clear of it.
Westmore answers that before it quotes a date, which is why photos of the slope, the driveway, and the landing spot matter more than the tub model. On a tight or steep lot the answer is usually a larger crane reaching in from stable ground, not the light machine an owner pictured sitting beside the deck.
Some of the level commercial ground near the water in Kelso was built up on fill rather than laid on native soil. A parking lot poured over engineered fill looks like the easiest setup on the property and can be the one that needs the most mat under it, because what matters to a crane is bearing capacity, not how flat the asphalt is.
For a rooftop unit or a steel pick on that kind of lot, Westmore asks what the pad is built on and plans mats and outrigger positions accordingly. If the property manager has a soils report or knows the lot history, hand it over with the site plan; if not, say so, and the crew treats it as fill until proven otherwise.
Steel buildings in Kelso lean industrial: a shop on flat commercial ground, a warehouse bay grafted onto an existing footprint, or a clear-span structure replacing something a business outgrew. Westmore handles the erection end to end, frame up through exterior finish, and never has to wait on a crane company to open a date.
A Kelso owner adding a commercial building can split the job three ways, a builder for the shell, an erector for the steel, a separate outfit for the picks, and then spend the project keeping three calendars honest. Westmore holds all three in house, so the concrete, the trades, the steel package, and the machine that lands it answer to one schedule and one phone number.
That division signs as commercial general contractor for owners who want a single contract, or takes the erection scope by itself where a builder already holds the site. Name the arrangement you want alongside the drawings and the scope is written that way.
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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Not by itself, once the slope and the soil under the outriggers are checked. Kelso has hillside ground with a documented history of slope instability, and the city's zoning on those slopes is stricter than on a flat lot, so a hillside set gets a pad plan rather than an eyeball. Westmore sizes cribbing and mats to the bearing the ground actually offers. A photo showing the slope below the set point usually answers the question.
Yes. No work in a Kelso street, alley, sidewalk, or right-of-way is allowed without written permission, and the city requires a civil engineering permit with a site plan and a traffic control plan attached, issued through the City Engineer under Kelso Municipal Code Chapter 12.14. A lift kept fully inside private property does not trigger it. Westmore prepares the site plan and the traffic control drawing as part of the job.
How far back the crane has to park counts for more than unit weight. The chart gives less at long radius than at short, so the same unit picked from a parking lot beside the building and picked from the curb can fall in two different classes. Sizes on hand are a 55, a 100, and a 350 ton machine. Send the unit weight, the roof dimensions, and where a truck can park.
Over the house or over the fence, on the hook. The crane sets up on the street or the driveway, the rigging crew straps the tub, and it flies clear of the roofline and comes down on its pad with no fence panel pulled and no deck cut. Give the dry weight, the pad spot, and a curbside photo of the yard.
By the machine class the load calls for, the rigging the pick takes, and the time the crane is held on site. Hillside and filled ground in Kelso can add mats and setup time that a flat lot does not need, and street work adds a permit with the traffic control drawing behind it. Give the load weight and a picture of the spot the crane would occupy.
Yes. The construction division signs on as commercial general contractor, and the same crew that raises the frame also closes in the exterior, so on an occupied commercial or medical property the schedule, the permitting, and the picks answer to one phone number. An addition brings its own questions: how the new frame ties into the existing structure, and where a crane can stand while the business keeps running.
Describe the load, the reach it needs, and what the ground looks like at the set point. A slope, a fill lot, and a level yard each change the answer.
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