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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 on the Tacoma tideflats and in Frederickson, plus the pre-engineered steel buildings raised on that same ground.
Crane service across Tacoma and the Pierce County cities around it sorts into three kinds of job, and Westmore erects the pre-engineered steel buildings that go up on two of them. Near the tideflats it is industrial rigging: structural steel, transformers, vaults, and machinery set on ground beside the container terminals rather than on terminal property itself. Southeast toward Frederickson it is new manufacturing and warehouse space, which means rooftop units and steel picks worked off big open pads. In Lakewood, University Place, Puyallup, and Fife it is commercial roofs and residential spa sets. One fleet covers all three, the 55-ton machine through the 350-ton Grove, and the operator plus the rigging gear are quoted alongside it every time.
Book a Tacoma day early and name the date you want held. The day belongs to your job: a dedicated crew and a dedicated machine, not equipment shared with somebody else's afternoon. Private work in a Tacoma street or right of way needs a permit from City of Tacoma Public Works, a right-of-way construction permit for short work or an occupancy permit for a longer setup, and the traffic control plan has to be approved before that. Each of the cities around Tacoma runs its own permit desk, so an approval in one of them does not travel to the next. Send the load weight, the reach, the exact street address, and the day you want on the board.
Which side of Tacoma the address falls on decides the setup, the permit desk, and the crane class.
Structural steel, transformer, and vault sets on the land beside the container terminals, timed around rail and terminal traffic.
New manufacturing and warehouse roofs through the Frederickson corridor take a unit landed or changed out from an open pad.
A hot tub, spa, or sauna taken over the house and landed on its pad at homes in Puyallup, Lakewood, and University Place.
A tideflats lift and a Frederickson lift barely resemble each other on the ground. One is worked beside container terminals with rail moving through the middle of it. The other sits on open industrial ground with space to set up once and swing wide. The difference shows up first on an oversize component, since SR-167 is the practical path into the Frederickson and Puyallup side. Name which of the three areas your site belongs to when you call rather than naming the metro.
Permits split along the same lines. A setup inside the Tacoma city limits answers to City of Tacoma Public Works, while the neighboring cities are separately incorporated and each keeps its own right-of-way process. The street address, not the mailing city, decides which desk a traffic control plan goes to, which is why Westmore asks for it before quoting a date.
Frederickson keeps adding manufacturing and warehouse space, and a shell at that size is pre-engineered steel. Westmore erects those frames with the crew that runs the cranes, so a Pierce County owner can put the structure and the lifts on one contract instead of matching an erector against a separate rigging company. Ask for both on one quote and the frame and the crane hours come back on one schedule.
Commercial general contracting covers preconstruction, the trades, the schedule, and closeout, with the steel scope kept in house. Send the building use, the footprint, and the parcel address, and the trades and the erection come back priced against one calendar.
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: Tacoma itself, Fife, Puyallup, Lakewood, University Place, and the Frederickson industrial area southeast of town. Those four smaller cities each run their own permit desk, and Frederickson work falls to Pierce County, so which paperwork applies follows the parcel rather than the mailing address. Give the street address along with the piece weight and the radius the pick needs.
Written permission from City of Tacoma Public Works. Private use of the public right of way takes either a Right-of-Way Construction permit for short work or a Right-of-Way Occupancy permit for a longer setup, both under Title 9 of the municipal code. The contractor also has to be licensed and bonded in Washington, hold a City of Tacoma business license, and file an approved traffic control plan.
The load, the reach, and how the machine gets onto the site. Those three pick the class, and the class carries most of the number. Time on site is next, and a street occupancy filing adds cost and lead time when the setup takes a lane. Westmore moves its own machines on its own trucks and trailers. The rigging and a certified operator are part of what gets quoted.
It comes off one of three classes, the 55, the 100, or the 350 ton machine, picked off unit weight, roof height, and how near the building the crane can park. A machine rates lower the farther the boom has to work, so the same unit can need a bigger class once the setup gets pushed back. Frederickson pads are open ground that usually leaves room alongside the building. A tideflats site hemmed in by rail spurs and terminal traffic does not.
Yes. Industrial sites beside the tideflats terminals take crane and rigging work, planned around active container traffic and rail spurs, so the setup window and the delivery times matter as much as the pick itself. Ground near the waterway can be fill, so bearing under the outriggers gets checked before a machine sets down. A share of that work carries a Fife address, which puts the permit at a different desk.
Yes, under Washington license WESTMCL836OJ, active with no violations in six years, and carrying $1 million in liability coverage. Westmore contracts commercial buildings, raises the steel with in-house crews, and finishes the exterior, with the crane division sitting inside that same company. A Tacoma project can put the structure and the picks under one contract instead of two.
Vehicles, trailers, dumpsters, and stacked material anywhere the outriggers land or the boom swings. The setup pad has to be level and firm enough to carry the machine, and anything overhead in the lift path such as service lines, canopies, or tree limbs should be flagged when the job is booked rather than found on the day. On a port-adjacent site, add the gate access and the delivery window the property owner controls.
Lakewood, University Place, and Frederickson are all served the same way, by one crew running one fleet, and Puyallup, Fife, and Sumner have their own page.
Weight, height, street address. Those three settle the crane class, and the class settles the price. A call is the quickest way through it.
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