Something similar to this I thought might be nice is 'rescue a couple of guys with a pickup / front end loader' quest, and as a reward, at one of your settlements you get them. They give you marking grenades, like the Minutemen artillery grenades, and you can mark gear like cooking stations, generators, etc, to have them picked up. Wouldn't even need to animate them, just a radio message 'Ok, boss, we're on it' and the things vanish sometime when you're not there. There's a bunch of random generators around that aren't being used that I've longed to be able to steal and repurpose. One of the metro stations has a raider settlement built up around it that has two medium generators, an armor and a weapon workbench and at least one cooking station. "Crime pays, take -everything-".