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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 steel erection for Salem and Keizer from one company, so the crane and the crew arrive together.
Westmore covers Salem and Keizer with both of its divisions: operated crane lifts, and commercial construction covering steel erection plus pre-engineered metal building work. A distribution warehouse needing a rooftop unit set, a food plant needing equipment rigged into place, a Marion County property owner putting up a shop or ag building, and a homeowner setting a hot tub all deal with the same licensed contractor. Crane work goes out operated, so an NCCCO certified operator plus the rigging are already inside the price. Building work is self-performed through erection and exterior finishing, with the crane already inside the contract instead of hired beside it.
Before a Salem-area job gets scheduled, the address decides the paperwork. Street or right-of-way work inside Salem goes through the City's Development Services Division and needs advance notice, a Keizer address goes through Keizer Public Works, and a county road answers to Marion County. West Salem sits in Polk County, west of the Willamette, and the two bridges serving it each carry traffic one direction only, so a West Salem lift gets the bridge direction settled while the crane is being sized. Send the site address first, then the load or the plan set, and the right desk gets identified while the job is scoped.
Six services for Salem, Keizer, and the surrounding Marion and Polk county ground, from a single rooftop lift to a finished building.
Operated lifts across Salem and Keizer, from a rooftop swap on a distribution roof to a heavy pick inside a production plant.
Pre-engineered frames and commercial steel erected and closed in, from a farm shop to a wide logistics shell.
Mechanical unit swaps for contractors working the flat-roofed warehouses and institutional buildings around the city.
Spas, saunas, and hot tubs flown over a fence line into Salem, Keizer, and West Salem backyards.
Right-of-way permits pulled at the right city or county desk, plus the state over-dimension permit when a move runs over legal size.
Commercial general contracting for Salem-area projects, including farm and ag-use buildings out in unincorporated Marion County.
Most of the steel demand around Salem is flat roofed and wide: distribution and food-processing buildings on the southeast industrial side, where a clear span is the whole point and a column in the middle of the floor is not an option. Westmore erects those from the manufacturer's engineered drawings, then closes the shell in with panels, siding, doors, and glazing.
Out in unincorporated Marion County the same crew builds a different animal, shops and equipment buildings framed around wide bays and roll-up doors rather than a floor plan. Ag-use buildings there can qualify for Oregon's agricultural exemption from the full structural permit process, but that turns on the use and gets confirmed with Marion County Public Works Planning before anything is scheduled.
Keizer runs on a third clock again. A commercial pad at the interchange center gets framed, enclosed, and fitted out against a tenant's opening date rather than a plant's shutdown window, so the erection sequence is written backward from that date. Send the plan set and the opening date together and the schedule comes back built around it.
Westmore holds Oregon Commercial General Contractor Level 1 licensing, which covers preconstruction, the subcontracted trades, the build schedule, and closeout on a Salem or Keizer commercial project. On a light-industrial corridor like Portland Road NE, a building is more often added to a working yard than started on empty ground.
That puts access, staging, and phase order into the contract before the first delivery, because the tenant still has to receive trucks while the addition goes up. Ask how the site will be staged when you ask for the number; that is the part deciding if the yard keeps running through construction.
The crane that sets the frame and the crew that finishes the building answer to the same office. An erection date and a lift date therefore get agreed in one conversation instead of negotiated between two companies holding separate calendars, which is where most steel schedules slip. Ask for both dates together when you ask for the number.
Salem and Keizer are separate cities and the permitting follows that line exactly, so an address a block on the wrong side of it goes to a different counter. Salem Development Services handles right-of-way work inside the city and wants notice in advance, Keizer Public Works handles its own, and a county road answers to Marion County Public Works Engineering.
West Salem adds a pair of one-way bridges to that. Each of the two crossings into it carries traffic in a single direction, so the window a crane can hold a West Salem site is set against that traffic rather than assumed off a map. Westmore fixes the window while the lift is being sized, which is why the address matters more than the date on a first call.
None of it is a detail that can wait for the truck to be loaded. Westmore confirms the jurisdiction against the street address while the job is being scoped, files whatever the setup needs, and hands the customer a date instead of a permit to chase. Give the address on the first call and this part stays in the background.
Food processing is the anchor industry for steel and rigging work in this market, and those buildings share one constraint: production stops while the pick happens. A machine set, a tank landed, or a rooftop unit swapped has to fit a shutdown window, and the plan has to survive it without a second attempt the following week.
Hospital and state office campuses are the other large-building stock here, and a rooftop mechanical swap on either comes with occupied floors underneath, parking to clear, and a swing path that has to miss everything. Those jobs are quoted from photos of the roof and the approach, plus the unit weight and the landing point.
Rigging at either one comes down to a short list: vaults, tanks, transformers, and structural members that have to land in one shot with no room to reposition. The crane arrives with its operator and gear matched to the heaviest piece on the list, which is the whole point of an operated lift.
From a hot tub lift in a Keizer backyard to a heavy pick at a Marion County industrial site, the load decides which of the three cranes goes out.
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. Coverage runs across Salem and Keizer and out to Four Corners, Hayesville, Turner, and Aumsville, and West Salem in Polk County is included. What changes with the address is jurisdiction, not availability: Keizer is a separate city, West Salem sits in a different county, and land outside either city line answers to Marion County.
Three different desks, depending on the address. Inside Salem city limits, the City of Salem Development Services Division issues the street use permit that covers staging a crane or closing a lane. Keizer runs its own through Public Works. On a county road outside both cities, Marion County Public Works Engineering handles it. Westmore files whichever one the site calls for.
Yes. Westmore is registered with the Oregon Construction Contractors Board as a commercial general contractor, CCB 234945, and liability coverage runs to $1 million in Oregon and Washington alike. Crane operators hold NCCCO certification across the fleet. A certificate of insurance and the registration number should be in hand before anyone starts on the site.
Yes. A manufacturer supplies the frame and Westmore stands it up, working from the engineered drawings and the foundation plan that come with the package. Registration CCB 234945 covers that erection work in Oregon. Westmore does not sell buildings, so the package stays a purchase from the manufacturer while the erection, the crane, and the exterior close-in come under one contract here.
The commercial general contractor signs the construction contract, carries the subcontractors, and owns delivery of the finished building. A construction manager works for the owner, running scope, budget, and schedule while the owner holds the trade contracts directly. Westmore takes either role, and which one fits depends on how much of the risk and the contracting an owner wants to hold.
Preconstruction is the work done before a price hardens: developing scope, checking constructability against the actual site, and sequencing the trades and the lifts. Westmore offers it ahead of either a general contracting or a construction management contract. It is where a steel frame gets checked against the ground it will stand on, and where a crane setup is worked out while the drawings can still change cheaply.
Each of these areas is served by the same crews and cranes that work Salem and Keizer proper.
Give us the load, the Salem or Keizer address, or the plan set, and the crew and the crane get sized before any number is written.
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