The crane is the easy part to find. The hard part is the lift plan, the rigging, the ground under the outriggers, and the crew that signals the pick. We plan and rig crane lifts from start to finish — and bring in the right crane for the load, the radius, and the site.
Quick answer: Crane service for industrial work means planning, rigging, and executing lifts with a mobile, carry-deck, or larger crane — setting machines, picking rooftop units, placing equipment on foundations, or loading freight. Badass Logistics plans each lift, sizes the crane to the load and radius, rigs and signals the pick with our own crew, and sets the load — so you get one team accountable for the whole lift.
Renting a crane gets you a machine and an operator. It doesn't get you the answer to the questions that actually decide whether a lift goes well: what the load really weighs with the rigging on it, where its center of gravity is, what radius the crane has to reach, whether the ground or the slab can take the outrigger loads, and what happens if the wind picks up halfway through the pick.
Badass Logistics runs crane work the way we run all rigging. We survey the site, get the real weight and dimensions, and build a lift plan: crane size and configuration, setup location, radius, rigging gear, sling angles, and a sequence the whole crew understands before anything leaves the ground. Then we bring in the crane that fits the plan — a carry-deck in a plant, a mobile crane in a parking lot, or larger capacity when the pick demands it.
On lift day our crew rigs the load, runs the taglines, sets the exclusion zone, and signals the operator. When the load is down, we set and level it — or move it the rest of the way on skates and jacks if the crane can only get it to the door.
RTUs, cooling towers, chillers, and mechanical equipment picked onto roofs and into penthouses.
Presses, machining centers, and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings.
Heavy, high-value, or close-to-capacity picks with detailed plans and tighter controls.
Two-crane lifts for long, heavy, or awkward loads that need to be picked and rotated.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads.
Crane-loaded freight for project shipments where forklifts can't reach or lift it.
Every crane lift we run is written down before the crane shows up. The detail scales with the risk, but the core questions don't change:
A lift is often treated as critical when it's close to the crane's rated capacity, uses more than one crane, happens over occupied areas or live equipment, or involves a load that can't be replaced. Those picks get more detailed planning and review before lift day.
The right crane depends on the load, the reach, and where the crane can physically set up — not on what's closest.
Compact cranes that work inside plants and warehouses, pick and carry loads short distances, and fit where a truck crane can't.
Truck and all-terrain cranes for rooftop work, loading and unloading, and outdoor picks where the setup area is limited and the reach matters.
For heavy loads at long radius, large equipment sets, and tandem work, sized from the lift plan and brought in with the rigging it needs.
Inside buildings with low ceilings or no crane access, hydraulic gantries and jack-and-slide systems often do the job more safely and with less disruption.
Hydraulic gantries, jack-and-slide, toe jacks, and air skates — heavy moves where a crane can't reach.
Jacking & Skidding // riggingChillers, boilers, cooling towers, rooftop units, and air handlers — craned in, skated down, or rebuilt to fit.
Chiller & Boiler // riggingTransformers, generator sets, switchgear, and turbines — jacked, skidded, craned, and set on their foundations.
Transformers & Generators // riggingMRI, CT, PET/CT, cath lab and linac moves — rigged in, rigged out, and handled like the instruments they are.
MRI & Medical // riggingEngineered lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves — from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond.
Industrial RiggingPlanned crane lifts, rooftop crane-ins, and critical picks in the 60 largest industrial metros we cover — cranes sized to the load and site, rigged and signaled by our crew.
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