Finding a crane in Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville, FL 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 Jacksonville and nearby Florida 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 Jacksonville's JAXPORT cargo & plant equipment 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 →
Jacksonville, FL runs on JAXPORT cargo & plant equipment, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Jacksonville's industrial base — JAXPORT cargo & plant equipment — 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 Jacksonville customers include:
The picks that come up most in Jacksonville are vehicle processing and staging equipment, ship repair shiplift and drydock equipment, aircraft maintenance and overhaul equipment, and container handling cranes and yard 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 Jacksonville's port logistics and vehicle import/export processing, naval and commercial ship repair, or aviation and aerospace maintenance 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 Jacksonville metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Jacksonville metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Jacksonville metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Jacksonville metro.
Plenty of Jacksonville jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-95, I-75, I-10 and I-4, 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.
JAXPORT is one of the nation's top vehicle-handling ports, with the Blount Island Marine Terminal serving as one of the largest vehicle import/export centers in the United States. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, plus the regional Florida East Coast Railway, with on-dock rail at the Talleyrand Marine Terminal and near-dock rail at Dames Point. 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 Jacksonville — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in Jacksonville, FL 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 Jacksonville jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Jacksonville crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Jacksonville? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Jacksonville, FL and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Jacksonville and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Park | Clay County | 12 mi |
| Fernandina Beach | Nassau County | 26 mi |
| Yulee | Nassau County | 21 mi |
| St. Augustine | — | — |
| Middleburg | Clay County | 22 mi |
| Green Cove Springs | Clay County | 24 mi |
| Callahan | Nassau County | 19 mi |
| Macclenny | Baker County | 28 mi |
| Ponte Vedra Beach | Saint Johns County | 17 mi |
| Lakeside | Clay County | 16 mi |
| Fruit Cove | Saint Johns County | 15 mi |
| Fleming Island | Clay County | 17 mi |
| Jacksonville Beach | Duval County | 16 mi |
| Oakleaf Plantation | Clay County | 16 mi |
| Palm Valley | Saint Johns County | 19 mi |
| St. Marys, GA | Camden County | 28 mi |
| Kingsland, GA | Camden County | 32 mi |
| Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace | Clay County | 12 mi |
| Atlantic Beach | Duval County | 15 mi |
| Saint Augustine | Saint Johns County | 37 mi |
| Palatka | Putnam County | 47 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Jacksonville services, Crane & Rigging Services across Florida or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across Florida — pick the nearest crew:
Most Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville crew.
Jacksonville industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Jacksonville as one accountable job.
Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville.
Jacksonville CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Jacksonville plants.
factory relocation in Jacksonville →In Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville.
The same Jacksonville 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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