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Mountain Crane was apart of the ongoing bridge rehabilitation project on 1300 South in Salt Lake City, Utah. Working with Granite Construction and Hanson Eagle Precast. Mountain Crane provided our new Liebherr 900t crane, in addition to a Liebherr 500t, a GMK 275t, and a Grove 110t crane. Project Manager Skyler Mundy selected the 900t […]

Mountain Crane Service took part in a major turnaround project at local refinery in North Salt Lake. These shutdowns require extensive amounts of engineering lift plans, project management, and crane work. For this reason, we dispatched skilled operators, experienced supervisors, and excellent safety management. All excelling in the ability to perform the necessary maintenance and […]

Mountain Crane had the opportunity to help with the Park City Sky Trac at Deerpoint. The inclined elevator is an 8 passenger cabin system mounted on a track that can take horizontal and vertical curves. The track is 1500 ft. long, reaching to 300 ft. of vertical. Running 6 ft. above the ground the Park […]

Mountain Crane Service performed a three crane lift, using a Grove 550, a Liebherr 500, and a Grove 275. Working with RMF, Mountain Crane used the three cranes to lift and place a large spray dryer filtration system. The Grove 550 and the Liebherr 500 lifted the piece up, while the Grove 275 rotated it. […]

Mountain Crane Service recently helped Primary Children’s Hospital replace their helipad. There were 50 yards of concrete needing to be broken up and removed. Concrete by the bucketful, 160,000 lbs. worth, was lifted off the roof by our crane. Once removed, we were was able to replace the 2,500 square foot helicopter pad.

Mountain Crane Serivce has recieved the "Zero is Attainable Award"! Which is given for completing 2013, at the Salt Lake Refinery without an OSHA recordable or days away from work injury. We hold very high standards for our company, with a special emphasis on safety. In fact, our motto is "Safety Strong". To have our […]

Mountain Crane’s Wind Maintenance Team recently worked on a few maintenance projects for multiple wind farms around the U.S. In May, we worked on two sites for Nordex: Rippey and Hawkeye. Both locations are in Iowa, and used the LR1600/2 with 344 ft of main boom and 39 ft of jib. Starting in Hawkeye, our […]

Mountain Crane recently completed tilting concrete panels on the North Pointe building in American Fork, Utah using its Manitowoc 2250. This tilt up presented a unique challenge in the form of a number of very large panels measuring 70’ wide and weighing up to 180,000 lbs. These panels were expertly placed by Danny Anderson, one […]

Mountain Crane continues to be involved with exciting lifts that push us to think outside the box. We were lucky enough to be involved in a double crane lift! Due to, the unique size and length of the pick it required not only many pre-lift meetings but innovative methods for transporting through tight corners and […]

Lifting a 40 ft. long shark tunnel is a peace of cake for Mountain Crane. We were ingredibly grateful to have been a part of creating a place of so many smiles and fun memories! Who doesn't love that amazing shark tunnel? It just makes you feel something special. A little scary, nervous, but above […]