Finding a crane in Billings is the easy part. 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 across the Billings metro from start to finish — and bring in the right crane for the load, the radius, and the site.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides crane & rigging services in Billings, MT and the surrounding metro. We plan the lift, bring in the crane sized to the load, radius, and site, and rig, signal, and set the pick with our own crew. Our crews work across Billings and nearby Montana metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A crane rental gets you a machine and an operator. It does not get you the load weight and center of gravity, the rigging that attaches to the right points, the ground-bearing check under the outriggers, the street or site closure, or the crew that takes the load off the hook and moves it into the building. On Billings's energy & ag jobs, those are the parts that decide whether a pick goes to plan.
Badass Logistics owns the lift, not just the hook time. We size the crane to the load and radius, write the lift plan, rig and signal the pick, and set the load — and where the crane can only reach the door or the dock, the same crew takes it the rest of the way with jacks, skates, and gantries. Crane rental vs a rigging company →
Billings, MT runs on energy & ag, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Billings's industrial base — energy & ag — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Turnaround windows, site safety rules, and heavy concentrated loads on process pads set the schedule. Typical crane lifts for Billings customers include:
The picks that come up most in Billings are refinery process and turnaround equipment, sugar processing equipment, grain handling and storage equipment, and oilfield service equipment — and the crane is sized to the heaviest of them at the longest radius the site forces, not to the weight alone. Who is asking changes the plan as much as what is being lifted: a pick for Billings's petroleum refining, sugar beet and food processing, agricultural equipment and grain handling, or oilfield and energy equipment services usually lands inside a running site, so the lift window, the exclusion zone, and the traffic plan are written around their operation.
RTUs, chillers, cooling towers, and mechanical equipment picked onto roofs across the Billings metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Billings metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Billings metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Billings metro.
Plenty of Billings jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-90, I-94 and I-15, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
Every crane & rigging services job in Billings, MT is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Billings jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Billings crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Billings? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Billings, MT and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Billings and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Laurel | Yellowstone County | 15 mi |
| Lockwood | Yellowstone County | 5 mi |
| Shepherd | Yellowstone County | 13 mi |
| Hardin | Big Horn County | 43 mi |
| Columbus | Stillwater County | 38 mi |
| Roundup | Musselshell County | 46 mi |
| Hysham | Treasure County | 70 mi |
| Worden | Yellowstone County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Billings services or get a quote.
Most Billings jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Billings crew.
Billings industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Billings as one accountable job.
Billings machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Billings.
Billings CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Billings plants.
factory relocation in Billings →In Billings we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Billings.
The same Billings crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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