Finding a crane in Dallas 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 Dallas 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 Dallas, TX 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 Dallas and nearby Texas 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 Dallas's manufacturing & distribution, DFW freight corridor 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 Dallas, TX concentrates in the Great Southwest Industrial District spanning Arlington and Grand Prairie, the Alliance Logistics District anchored by BNSF's Alliance intermodal terminal in north Fort Worth, and the DFW Airport logistics corridor, 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 large single-storey clear-span distribution and light-assembly buildings concentrated around Alliance and the Great Southwest District, built for dock-high trailer loading rather than heavy floor loads, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
Plenty of Dallas, TX work — manufacturing & distribution, DFW freight corridor — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same crane and rigging services crews through these TX and regional markets:
Dallas's industrial base — manufacturing & distribution, DFW freight corridor — 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 Dallas customers include:
The picks that come up most in Dallas are surface-mount electronics lines, CNC machining centers, injection molding machines, and palletizers and conveyor systems — 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 Dallas's electronics and telecom equipment manufacturing, aerospace component manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment logistics, or food and beverage processing 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 Dallas metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Dallas metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Dallas metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Dallas metro.
Plenty of Dallas jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-10, I-20, I-35 and I-45, 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 Dallas, TX 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 Dallas jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Dallas crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Dallas? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Dallas, TX and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Dallas and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth | Tarrant County | 30 mi |
| Arlington | Tarrant County | 18 mi |
| Irving | Dallas County | 9 mi |
| Garland | Dallas County | 13 mi |
| Grand Prairie | Dallas County | 11 mi |
| Mesquite | Dallas County | 12 mi |
| Carrollton | Dallas County | 13 mi |
| Richardson | Dallas County | 12 mi |
| Denton | Denton County | 35 mi |
| Frisco | Collin County | 25 mi |
| Grapevine | Tarrant County | 19 mi |
| Plano | Collin County | 18 mi |
| McKinney | Collin County | 31 mi |
| Lewisville | Denton County | 21 mi |
| Allen | Collin County | 24 mi |
| Flower Mound | Denton County | 23 mi |
| North Richland Hills | Tarrant County | 25 mi |
| Celina | Collin County | 37 mi |
| Mansfield | Tarrant County | 25 mi |
| Rowlett | Dallas County | 16 mi |
| Euless | Tarrant County | 16 mi |
| DeSoto | Dallas County | 14 mi |
| The Trails of Frisco | Collin County | 26 mi |
| Bedford | Tarrant County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Dallas services, Crane & Rigging Services across Texas or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across Texas — pick the nearest crew:
Most Dallas 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 Dallas crew.
Dallas riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Dallas as one accountable job.
Dallas machinery moving company →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Dallas.
Dallas CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Dallas plants.
plant relocation in Dallas →In Dallas 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 Dallas.
The same Dallas 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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