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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 Milwaukie industrial plants and Oak Grove backyards, plus steel buildings and plant additions raised by one licensed contractor.
Crane service in Milwaukie is mostly industrial, and the steel buildings and plant additions those picks land inside are erected under Westmore's own Oregon commercial construction license. Plants and shops along the McLoughlin corridor need machinery set, tanks and transformers landed, structural steel raised, and rooftop mechanical units swapped, and the older commercial buildings nearer the river need the same work in much tighter quarters. Hot tub and spa lifts into Milwaukie and Oak Grove yards run alongside all of it. Every job goes out operated: the crew is NCCCO certified and the rigging is matched to the piece, and the fleet stretches from 55 tons up to 350 tons so a heavy plant pick and a backyard set each get the right machine.
Two things decide how a Milwaukie job gets scheduled. First, the City requires a permit to occupy public right-of-way, which also covers holding an on-street parking space past the posted limit, exactly what a crane does when there is no lot beside the building. Second, an Oak Grove address may sit in unincorporated Clackamas County rather than the city, and a mailing address will not tell you which. Both get checked against the street address before a date is set. Send the weight of the piece, where it must land, and photos of the spot a truck can park.
Three job types cover most Milwaukie calls, from a plant floor to a residential yard.
Machines set on the plant floor, transformers and vaults landed, tanks placed, all by operators and riggers on Westmore's own payroll.
Rooftop mechanical exchanged on warehouse and light-industrial buildings, sized to the roof opening and the reach from wherever the truck ends up parking.
A sauna, swim spa, or hot tub lifted over the roofline into a Milwaukie or Oak Grove yard instead of wheeled through a side gate.
The employment district running along McLoughlin Boulevard near the I-205 interchange holds warehouse and manufacturing tenants rather than retail, and that changes what gets lifted. A machine coming into a plant, a transformer going onto a pad, or a tank set inside a building line has one place to sit down and no room to shuffle it afterward.
Picks like that are planned before the truck moves: what the piece weighs, where the rigging attaches, the reach from the setup position, and whether a roof or a wall has to open to receive it. Send one photo of the piece and one of the truck approach, and the plan comes back with a crane class already attached.
Some commercial buildings near the river simply have no private lot beside them, which puts the rig on the frontage or an adjacent side street rather than inside a property line. That is public ground, and it is close enough to moving traffic that cones and a spotter go up before the boom does.
That is exactly what the City permit for right-of-way use exists to cover, including a crane holding an on-street parking space longer than the posted limit. Westmore files it and plans the closure window, so a lift does not stall waiting on a counter. Photos of the frontage and the parking are what make that application accurate the first time.
Steel buildings in Milwaukie are industrial almost without exception: a bay added onto a casting or machining plant, a clear-span shop, or a storage structure tucked behind a building already running. Westmore does the erection on all of it, raising the frame and finishing the outside with its own people rather than a chain of subcontractors.
Casting and machining plants are not sized like a standard warehouse box, and an addition at that scale needs a crew that can raise the frame as well as run the crane. Westmore holds the Oregon license to do both, which keeps the erection sequence and the lift schedule inside one office instead of split across two bids.
In practice that means a plant can add floor area without adding a second company to the site, and the crew that stands the structural steel closes the exterior in behind it. Send the manufacturer's plan set along with the intended use, and the erection plus the exterior finish come back quoted together.
An Oak Grove backyard and a McLoughlin Boulevard plant call for different capacity, and having three tonnage classes means the crane that shows up matches 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.
One call covers crane size, the permit, and the schedule. Or send the basics below and we call back within 24 hours.
"We have did multiple projects across the greater Clark County WA area with Warren and his team, from picking our transformer or vaults or any craning needs we have. Fast, efficient, but at the same time very safe with their walk arounds and set up procedures, making sure everything is in the right order. Highly recommend them to anyone needing reputable crane services."
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"This company does excellent crane work. I've worked with several crane companies in the past and none of them showed up as prepared as Westmore. Their crew had a great attitude, communicated well, and safely set our sign bridge in under an hour. I highly recommend Westmore Construction."
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"In our HVAC company, we use Westmore whenever we need a crane on a job. They are the first ones we call and they are always happy to fit us in the schedule. They show up on time, with a good attitude, and safe work practices every time. Great company to work with!"
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Send four details: what the load weighs, how high it has to go and how far out it has to land, the street address, and a couple of photos showing where a truck can park and where the load ends up. Gate widths and overhead lines matter as much as tonnage, because a crane derates as the boom goes farther out, and the truck still has to stop somewhere legal.
Only when the crane occupies public ground. Milwaukie requires a City Right-of-Way Permit to occupy or encroach on the right-of-way, and also to hold an on-street parking space past its posted time limit, which is exactly what a rig staged at the curb is doing. A lift that never leaves the ground the owner controls needs neither. Westmore files it with the rest of the job paperwork.
Clackamas County, not the City of Milwaukie. Oak Grove is unincorporated, and postal practice lets its addresses read Oak Grove, Milwaukie, or Portland, so the mailing city is a poor guide to who reviews a street setup. The jurisdiction follows the parcel line. Coverage is the same either way, with the same crew and the same cranes.
Weight and radius pick the class, and the fleet spans 55 tons to 350 tons. Process equipment along the McLoughlin corridor is usually heavy for its size and often has to clear a roof line or an existing structure, and the load chart falls away as boom length and height grow. Where the machine can stand, and what that ground carries, is the third input.
Four things move it: which machine the pick needs, how long the crew is on site, how much rigging the load calls for, and whether the rig has to occupy a city street. A pick at a manufacturing plant along McLoughlin and a spa set on a quiet Oak Grove street rarely call for the same crane, which is why the load and the address come before a number.
Both. Westmore takes the commercial general contractor role and puts up structural steel with its own people, which suits a city built around specific plants rather than a business park circuit. A plant addition, the permits behind it, and every lift needed to stand it up share one schedule instead of bouncing between two companies with separate calendars.
An Oak Grove address is worked the same as one in town, crane and construction alike.
Send the piece weight, how high it has to clear, and the address, a plant off McLoughlin or a house in Oak Grove, and the crane gets sized ahead of the price.
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