Slower Than a Speeding Bullet

Making Room for Four New Butane Bullets Moving a 150,000-pound tank through an active refinery takes more than a big crane. It takes careful planning, specialized equipment and a crew that knows exactly what needs to happen at every step. At the PAR Montana refinery in Billings, Montana, Mountain’s team recently completed the removal and […]

Mountain Puts Down Roots in Montana Mountain officially cut the ribbon on its new Billings, Montana facility, marking another milestone as Mountain continues to expand its footprint across the region. What started as an empty field is now a fully operational home base built specifically around the needs of Mountain’s Montana team. The new facility […]

19 Towers Across the California Hills When you're building a wind farm, wind is kind of the point, until you're trying to fly a blade hundreds of feet in the air. At the MulQueeney wind project in California, Mountain recently reached a major milestone with the completion of the final turbine in a 19-tower Vestas […]

Precision Picks Bring a New Fire Station’s Living Quarters Together Building the living quarters of a new fire station came together one piece, and one carefully planned lift, at a time. For this project, Mountain was tasked with setting 12 pre-assembled modular units that would make up the station’s new living quarters. These weren’t empty […]

Heavy Lifting Behind Everyday Essentials The next time you reach for a roll of toilet paper, chances are you won't think about the massive equipment behind making it. At the heart of the process is a Yankee dryer—a giant steam-heated cylinder that transforms wet paper into the soft, textured tissue we use every day. Often […]

A Span Above the Rest For most people, a bridge is simply a way to get from one place to another. For the crews building new infrastructure at Wasatch Peaks Ranch in Morgan, Utah, it's the result of careful planning, teamwork, and a series of precisely executed heavy lifts. Recently, Mountain partnered with Dick Anderson […]

Supporting the Ocotillo Express Wind Farm Mountain recently partnered with Pattern Energy to complete a major blade replacement project at the Ocotillo Express Wind Farm in Southern California. The multi-phase project included full blade replacements across 105 towers, along with generator upgrades on select turbines to help extend the life and performance of the facility. […]

Mountain Crane Supports Yellowstone Bridge Replacement A major infrastructure milestone has been reached in Yellowstone National Park as the new Yellowstone River bridge now carries traffic across one of the park’s most critical corridors. With the new crossing officially open, crews have shifted focus to the final phase of the project: demolition of the original […]

Rooted in History: Temple Square's Honeysuckle Trees Return Home Temple Square is another step closer to reopening — and this time, some of its oldest residents are coming back with it. After years away from the landscape they've shaped for generations, three mature honeysuckle trees have been carefully transplanted back to their homes around the […]

THAT’S OFFICIALLY AMAZING! Mountain Crane was honored to be a part of a Guinness Book of World Records moment! When the Harlem Globe Trotters reached out to our team and asked if we could hoist a basketball hoop up 50 feet in the air to set a new world record we couldn’t wait to be […]