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Southwest Kansas

Manufactured & Modular Home Setting in Ulysses, KS

Manufactured home setting onto foundations and piers across southwest Kansas, carefully planned and properly craned since 1981.

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Manufactured home setting out of Ulysses, KS is not a sideline for us. Everything from setting up homes to working in oil fields is how this business has run since 1981. If you are placing a manufactured home, a modular home or a cabin on a prepared site, this is a lift we have done a great many times.

The Set

What Manufactured Home Setting Involves

A home set is a planning job with a crane attached. The pick itself is usually straightforward. What goes wrong is access, ground conditions and sequencing: whether the machine can get where it needs to be, whether the pad will hold it, and whether the foundation and the crew are actually ready on the day.

  • Single and multi-section manufactured homes
  • Modular homes, cabins and park models
  • Setting onto basements, crawl spaces, piers and slabs
  • Tight or awkward rural sites where a trailer cannot back in
  • Coordinating with your set crew, transporter and foundation contractor
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Typical Sets

Farmhouse Replacements, Town Lots and Modular Buildings

A new manufactured home going onto a basement where the old farmhouse stood. A double-wide on a town lot with a neighbour's fence on one side and power lines on the other. A modular home on a fresh slab outside town. A cabin or park model somewhere a trailer cannot reach.

Smaller pieces around the house, like a garage package or a hot tub for the new deck, are residential crane work. Modular offices and plant buildings run more like commercial crane jobs.

Before the Day

Planning the Home Set a Week Out

We would rather have the planning conversation a week out than on the morning of. Tell us the home, the site and the date, and we will tell you what we need from you before we roll.

Rural sites out here usually sit off a county road on the mile grid, and an address that works for the mail carrier may not put a crane in the right driveway. Send a map pin with the booking.

  • The home: sections, dimensions and weights from the manufacturer if you have them
  • The site: address, access route, and how close a large machine can get
  • The ground: recent rain, soft fill, septic, buried utilities
  • Overhead: power lines are the most common reason a set has to be replanned
  • The date, and who else has to be there (transporter, set crew, foundation)
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Set Day

What Happens on Home Set Day

The crane sets up where we planned, your transporter brings the sections in, and the set crew guides each one onto the foundation as the operator lowers it. Every pick is run by an operator certified by the National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators (NCCCO).

Every crane we send is operated and maintained, so the machine and the operator arrive together. If the foundation or the access is not what we were told, the operator stops and says so before a section leaves the trailer.

Getting a Number

How a Home Set Is Priced

No flat rate. Manufactured home setting is priced on the number and weight of the sections, the reach from where the crane can set up, and the drive to the site. The quote is free, and the quotation comes back within 24 hours guaranteed.

If you searched manufactured home setting near me and landed here, send the manufacturer paperwork and a map pin and we will put a number on it.

Where We Set Homes

Home Setting From Ulysses to Dodge City and Liberal

We set homes across southwest Kansas: Ulysses, Garden City, Dodge City, Liberal, Hugoton, Lakin and the smaller towns and rural sites in between. Travel is quoted honestly as part of the job.

Looking for modular home setters near me in Grant, Stanton or Kearny County? That is home ground. Our other crane services cover the rest of what we lift.

Setting a Home? Let's Plan the Lift.

Send us the home, the site and the date and we will price your manufactured home setting at no cost, with a quotation within 24 hours guaranteed.

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Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Do you set manufactured homes onto basements?

Yes: basements, crawl spaces, piers and slabs. What matters most is access and whether the ground around the site will carry the machine, so describe the site when you call, the same as you would for any lift around the house.

How far in advance should I book manufactured home setting?

As early as you have a date. Home sets involve a transporter, a set crew and a foundation that all have to be ready at once, so the earlier the crane is booked into that sequence the better.

Do you set modular homes as well as manufactured homes?

Yes. Modular homes, cabins and park models go on the same way, with the lift planned first. Get us the section weights early so we send the right machine.

What if the site is not ready when you arrive?

It costs everyone money, which is why we ask about the foundation, the access and the ground before we mobilise. If something has slipped, call us as early as you can and we will try to move the booking rather than roll out to a site that is not ready.

Can I reach you after hours if a home set runs into trouble?

Yes. We answer 24 hours a day through our emergency crane service. Call (620) 356-3663 and tell us what is going on.

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