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Machinery, Tanks and Containers Set Where They Belong
2 min readUpdated July 2026
An equipment setting package covers lifting and landing shop and yard equipment, tanks, containers, machinery and modular sections. The unit is checked for lifting points first, measured against every doorway and clearance on the route, and set square to the anchor bolts or conduit already in the slab.
The Kind of Loads This Covers
Shop and yard equipment is its own category of lift. A machine is heavy, awkward, expensive, and covered in things that do not enjoy being knocked. Generators, air compressors, water and fuel tanks, shipping containers, presses, lathes, pumps, skids and modular building sections all sit in this group.
What they have in common is that the pick is the easy half. Landing the thing exactly where it has to go, square, level, and without touching the panel on its side, is the half that takes the time.
Lifting Points, and What to Do When There Are None
The first question on any machine is where it can be picked from. Some arrive with lifting eyes and a manual naming which ones to use. Some have a sheet metal skin over a frame and no obvious point at all, in which case the pick comes off the frame or off a sling arrangement under the base, never off the cabinet.
When there is nothing safe to hook, the rigging does the work. Slings choked or basketed under the frame, a spreader bar to keep the legs off the cabinet, and bolt-on lifting eyes where the manufacturer provides threaded points. A machine that shows up with nowhere obvious to hook it is a common reason a delivery gets refused, and it does not have to end the day.
Control panels, gauges, sight glasses and thin sheet metal get covered or padded before anything moves. A dent in a cabinet is cosmetic. A crushed conduit run or a bent panel door is a service call.
Landing It Square to What Is Already in the Slab
Most machines are going onto anchors, a curb or a conduit stub poured months earlier. The target is not a general area, it is a set of holes. So the piece gets walked into line on the hook and lowered onto the bolts, rather than dropped close and then shoved into place. Dragging a machine across a slab is how a mounting foot ends up bent.
The route gets measured before the load leaves the truck. Door widths, header height, the turn at the end of the aisle, and the low point in the ceiling that nobody notices until a load is under it. If the piece will not fit through the opening upright, that is much better known in the yard than halfway through the doorway.
Tight Yards and One Trip
A lot of this work happens in boat and RV storage lots and in older yards off the highway, where the drive aisles were laid out for a pickup and a trailer. The truck often cannot stand where the load is going, so the lift is made from the aisle and the piece is flown in over a row. That is a radius question and the load chart decides it, so tell us the distance from where a truck can stand to where the piece has to land.
Booking the unloading and the setting together keeps it to one trip. If a machine comes off the delivery truck, goes onto its stand and then onto its anchors, doing that across two visits leaves the piece parked in the aisle in between, in everybody's way, waiting on whoever is available next. The owner runs the whole sequence and answers the phone about it.
How the job runs
Our Process
Step 1: Weights, Points and Photos
Weight from the plate or the manual, where the manufacturer says to lift it, and photos of both the piece and the route in. If the manual is long gone, a photo of the base and the frame usually tells us enough to plan the pick.
Step 2: Route and Clearance Measured
Door width, header height, aisle turns and anything overhead get measured before the load comes off the truck. Numbers, not eyeballs.
Step 3: Protection and Rigging
Panels and glass get covered. Slings go on the frame or on the manufacturer's points. Where there is nothing to hook, slings go under the base with a spreader bar keeping them off the sides.
Step 4: Set Square and Landed Slow
The piece is walked into line above its anchors and lowered onto them slowly. Small position changes happen on the hook, not by shoving it across the floor.
Step 5: Anchor Work and Handover
The piece sits on its anchors on the hook while you check it for square and level. The rigging comes off only when you are happy.
Scope
What Is Included
- An operator and a boom truck matched to the weight of the piece and the reach needed to place it
- Rigging planned around the manufacturer's lifting points, or around the frame where there are none
- Slings, shackles and a spreader bar chosen for the frame when the piece has no lifting points
- Route measurement for door widths, header heights, aisle turns and overhead clearance
- Protection for control panels, gauges, glass and sheet metal while the load is moving
- The piece set square and level to the anchor bolts or conduit already in your slab
Answers
Frequently Asked Questions
The machine has no lifting eyes. Can you still move it?
Yes. The pick comes off the frame with slings under the base, usually with a spreader bar so the legs do not crush the sides. A photo of the base and the frame lets us plan the rigging before the day.
Will it fit through my roll up door?
Send the door width and the header height along with the dimensions of the piece and we will check it before the day. This is the most common thing that stops a set, and it is completely avoidable.
Can you set a container in a storage yard aisle?
Usually. The question is how far the truck has to stand from the final spot, because carrying capacity drops as the load moves out. Give us that distance and we will confirm what works.
Do you bolt the machine down?
We land it square on the anchors and hold it while your crew shims and snugs the nuts. Final anchoring, grouting and any electrical or plumbing hookup belong to your own contractors.
What if the piece weighs more than the plate says?
Tell us if fluids, tooling, batteries or ballast are still in it. A machine full of oil or a tank with product still in it is a different lift, and finding that out with the load on the hook is not the way to learn it.
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Ready to schedule your lift?
Tell us the load, the site and the timing. We will confirm capacity, access and a window.