Finding a crane in Boston 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 Boston 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 Boston, MA 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 Boston and nearby Massachusetts 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 Boston's manufacturing & port 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 →
Crane work in Boston, MA concentrates in the Chelsea and Everett industrial district south of Route 16, anchored by the New England Produce Center, the Grand Junction Railroad corridor linking Allston, Cambridge, Charlestown, Everett and Chelsea, and the Conley Terminal container-port district in South Boston, and each of those sets up differently — lot space for outriggers, overhead lines, rail spurs, and neighbors that can't be shut down. The buildings are a mix of dense multi-storey brick mill buildings in Chelsea and Everett with narrow loading bays and older waterfront warehouses with low dock clearances, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
Boston, MA runs on manufacturing & port, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Boston's industrial base — manufacturing & port — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Most work happens around live distribution and production operations that can't stop for the move. Typical crane lifts for Boston customers include:
The picks that come up most in Boston are bioreactors and cleanroom process skids, refrigeration and cold-storage equipment, printing presses, and seafood processing lines — 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 Boston's biotechnology and pharmaceutical manufacturing, seafood processing and cold storage, wholesale produce distribution, or commercial printing and publishing 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 Boston metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Boston metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Boston metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Boston metro.
Plenty of Boston 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-95 and I-93, 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.
The Port of Boston's Conley Terminal in South Boston is New England's largest full-service container terminal. Served by CSX, with the Grand Junction line providing the primary active freight connection into the Boston-area industrial waterfront. Loads arriving that way often need a crane at both ends — off the railcar or dock and onto a trailer, then off the trailer and onto a pad in Boston — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in Boston, MA 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 Boston jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Boston crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Boston? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Boston, MA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Boston and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | Middlesex County | 3 mi |
| Quincy | Norfolk County | 8 mi |
| Worcester | Worcester County | 39 mi |
| Lowell | Middlesex County | 23 mi |
| Framingham | Middlesex County | 19 mi |
| Braintree | Norfolk County | 11 mi |
| Woburn | Middlesex County | 10 mi |
| Everett | Middlesex County | 4 mi |
| Chelsea | Suffolk County | 3 mi |
| Waltham | Middlesex County | 9 mi |
| Providence, RI | Providence County | 41 mi |
| Manchester, NH | Hillsborough County | 48 mi |
| Dorchester | Suffolk County | 4 mi |
| Brockton | Plymouth County | 19 mi |
| Fall River | Bristol County | 46 mi |
| Lynn | Essex County | 9 mi |
| Newton | Middlesex County | 8 mi |
| Nashua, NH | Hillsborough County | 35 mi |
| Warwick, RI | Kent County | 49 mi |
| Cranston, RI | Providence County | 44 mi |
| Somerville | Middlesex County | 3 mi |
| Lawrence | Essex County | 25 mi |
| Pawtucket, RI | Providence County | 37 mi |
| Framingham Center | Middlesex County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Boston services or get a quote.
Most Boston 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 Boston crew.
Boston industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Boston as one accountable job.
Boston 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 Boston.
Boston CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Boston plants.
factory relocation in Boston →In Boston 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 Boston.
The same Boston crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, and machinery loading and unloading.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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