Finding a crane in Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis, IN 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 Indianapolis and nearby Indiana 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 Indianapolis's manufacturing & logistics core 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 Indianapolis, IN concentrates in the CSX Avon Yard and I-70 West corridor through Plainfield and Avon, the Norfolk Southern Hawthorne Yard rail district, the Airport Cargo District near Indianapolis International Airport, and the I-465 South industrial 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 clear-span single-storey distribution and warehouse buildings concentrated along the I-70 West corridor and near the airport, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
Indianapolis, IN runs on manufacturing & logistics core, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Indianapolis's industrial base — manufacturing & logistics core — 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 Indianapolis customers include:
The picks that come up most in Indianapolis are pharmaceutical production and packaging equipment, CNC machining centers, jet engine assembly and test equipment, and conveyor and sortation 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 Indianapolis's pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, automotive and diesel parts and components, aerospace and jet engine component manufacturing, or intermodal freight and warehouse distribution 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 Indianapolis metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Indianapolis metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Indianapolis metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Indianapolis metro.
Plenty of Indianapolis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-65, I-70 and I-69, 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 Indianapolis, IN 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 Indianapolis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Indianapolis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Indianapolis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Indianapolis, IN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Indianapolis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Carmel | Hamilton County | 15 mi |
| Fishers | Hamilton County | 15 mi |
| Greenwood | Johnson County | 11 mi |
| Plainfield | Hendricks County | 14 mi |
| Noblesville | Hamilton County | 21 mi |
| Whitestown | Boone County | 19 mi |
| Avon | Hendricks County | 13 mi |
| Franklin | Johnson County | 21 mi |
| Lebanon | Boone County | 25 mi |
| Anderson | Madison County | 34 mi |
| Bloomington | Monroe County | 46 mi |
| Kokomo | Howard County | 50 mi |
| Lawrence | Marion County | 9 mi |
| Columbus | Bartholomew County | 41 mi |
| Westfield | Hamilton County | 19 mi |
| Zionsville | Boone County | 14 mi |
| Brownsburg | Hendricks County | 14 mi |
| Greenfield | Hancock County | 21 mi |
| Fairfield Heights | Hendricks County | 13 mi |
| Shelbyville | Shelby County | 27 mi |
| New Castle | Henry County | 43 mi |
| Broad Ripple | Marion County | 7 mi |
| Frankfort | Clinton County | 40 mi |
| Crawfordsville | Montgomery County | 42 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Indianapolis services or get a quote.
Most Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis crew.
rigging contractors in Indianapolis →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Indianapolis as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Indianapolis →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Indianapolis.
machine tool movers in Indianapolis →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Indianapolis plants.
Indianapolis plant relocation →In Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis.
The same Indianapolis 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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