Winches and hoists, designed and built to order in Oregon since 1983.

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Browse the standard range
Every series by capacity, lifting and pulling.

The range at a glance

Maximum single-line rating for each standard series. Anything outside these bars, we engineer.

Hoists — lifting

Winches — pulling

Bars on a log scale, 1,000 to 70,000 lbs. Hydraulic and DC units are configured per job. Custom units →

Where Columbia units work

All projects in The Wire →
The spinning chandelier artwork hanging under the Granville Street Bridge, raised and lowered by six Columbia hoists
Vancouver, BC · 2026

Six hoists spin and lower a public-art chandelier under the Granville Street Bridge

(6) Columbia H10000-4A17-X-01G · Walla Walla Foundry / City of Vancouver
Wrigley Field seen from behind home plate, with the backstop netting rigged above the seats
Chicago, IL · 2025

Rigging hoists raise and lower the backstop netting at Wrigley Field

Columbia HG5600-2A17-L-02
The world's largest American flag flying in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, raised by a Columbia flag hoist
Sheboygan, WI · 2026

A variable-speed flag hoist raises the world’s largest American flag

Columbia AC electric hoist · VFD, up to 80 FPM

What you get with every unit

Run tested

Every unit is run tested in our shop and ships with its test report. Load testing is available as an option.

Approval drawings on request

For custom and modified units, you can sign off on drawings before we order a part.

A manual for your unit

Written for the configuration you bought, not a generic catalog manual.

CAD on request

PDF drawings online for most standard series; 3D STEP models by model number.

Built in Beaverton

Designed, assembled and supported by the same team since 1983.

Industries
Line sagging Tractor winch packages Construction Utilities Semiconductor Marine Mining Arts & Entertainment More →

Not in the range? That’s most of what we build.

Send the load, speed, travel and where it has to run. An engineer will get back to you.

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