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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 Rainier waterfront and rural properties, plus steel shops and small commercial buildings put up by one Oregon contractor.
Crane service in Rainier splits between the waterfront and the rest of town, and the same Oregon license, CCB 234945, covers the steel buildings Westmore erects here. At the barge and rail terminal it is industrial rigging: equipment moves, log-handling machinery, structural picks staged between switching moves. Off the water it is smaller and quicker, a rooftop unit swapped out on a commercial building along the highway, a spa or sauna dropped into a backyard, a beam placed on a shop or a house. The crane, an NCCCO certified operator in the seat, and every sling and spreader the pick calls for move as one priced package, and Westmore moves them on its own trailers instead of booking a carrier.
Two agencies can own the ground a crane stands on here, so that gets settled first. Work inside a city right of way goes through City of Rainier Public Works, while US-30 through town is a state highway and Oregon routes state-highway right-of-way work through ODOT. Westmore works out which agency owns the ground and files with it. Keep the machine on private property and neither review applies, which is worth knowing before a set point is chosen. Give the equipment weights and dimensions, the reach, and a picture looking straight at the landing spot.
Three job types cover nearly every Rainier call, and each one takes its own machine and its own setup plan.
Machinery and equipment rigged into position on the working barge and rail waterfront, staged between switching moves.
A tub or sauna picked from the street and set in the yard, usually a short morning on the 55-ton class.
A failed rooftop unit pulled and its replacement landed on the curb without cutting into the roof deck.
The Portland and Western Railroad runs active track through Rainier, and the barge and rail terminal on the water works to switching moves rather than to a contractor's calendar. A crane setup there has to clear the track, hold the pick until the crossing is free, and put the boom back over its own footprint before the next move. That is planning, not luck.
Westmore builds the lift plan around the window the site gives and puts the crew on the ground early enough to use all of it. Give the equipment weights and dimensions, the crossing or gate the crew reports to, and the operations contact who controls the window, and the plan comes back naming the crane and where it will stand.
Most Rainier building work is a shop, a storage building, or a small commercial structure rather than a warehouse-scale project, and that scale is exactly where paying two contractors hurts most. Westmore holds Oregon CCB 234945 for both sides, so the same license that covers the erection covers the crane that sets it, and the owner signs once.
Commercial general contracting, steel erection, and exterior finishing all come from that crew, which means the permits, the frame, and the picks sit on one schedule instead of three. Give the size you have in mind, the purpose it serves, and where on the property it goes, and the sequence comes back written out.
A spa on a residential street and a rigging job on the barge and rail waterfront take different machines, and the class follows the load and the site.
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. Oregon work runs under Westmore's Oregon contractor license, CCB 234945, with a million dollars of liability coverage behind it, the same as on any Washington job. Each machine ships with an NCCCO certified operator, plus the rigging the pick needs. A lift that never touches a public road can be dated once the weight and the reach are settled, while one that does waits on the agency review.
Yes. Hoisting, rigging, and hauling are one scope, and Westmore runs its own trucks and trailers rather than handing the move to an outside carrier. On an industrial site with active rail and dock traffic, the lift plan is built around the window the site gives, since a crane cannot hold a track or a lane open. Send the equipment weights and dimensions and a plan comes back.
Which agency applies comes down to the road. Work inside a Rainier city street or right-of-way is approved by City of Rainier Public Works, while US-30 through town is a state highway, and Oregon routes state-highway right-of-way work through ODOT. A setup entirely on private property needs neither. Westmore identifies which desk holds the road and files with it as part of the job.
The weight and the radius decide the crane class, and where the machine can legally stand decides the rest. A rigging job beside live track has to be planned around the traffic on it, which is a different job from a set on a residential street at the same weight. Permits carry their own line when the road is involved. Send photos and the load weight.
Yes. Lifting a tub over the fence is standard work in Rainier. The tub is rigged at the truck, lifted over the fence or the roofline, and lowered to its pad without a second setup, so no fence section comes out and no deck gets cut. Three things size the machine: the tub's dry weight, how far the pad sits from the nearest truck parking, and what stands between the two.
The pick decides it, not the town. A tub swung over a fence is a light load at a short radius. Equipment set near a dock or a rail line needs more boom and more radius, because the machine has to stand well off the track, and a chart gives less the farther out it works. The 350 ton Grove takes the heaviest and the longest, with 100 and 55 ton machines below it.
Yes, under the same Oregon license the crane work runs on. Shops, small commercial buildings, and additions are the scale this work covers: the crew raises the frame and closes in the walls and roof, exterior finishing is included in that scope, and the company's own crane does the setting. Send the footprint and the intended use.
Tell us what is being lifted, where on the property it has to land, and which agency holds the ground the crane will stand on. A scope comes back with the class named.
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