Finding a crane in Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles and nearby California 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 Los Angeles's ports & industry 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 Los Angeles, CA concentrates in the Vernon industrial district south of downtown, the City of Industry business park in the San Gabriel Valley, the Alameda Corridor rail belt through Commerce and Carson, and the harbor-area industrial district near the ports, 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 older multi-tenant industrial buildings in Vernon and Commerce with tight column spacing, low dock heights and narrow street access built long before modern trailer traffic, 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 Los Angeles, CA work — ports & industry — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same crane and rigging services crews through these CA and regional markets:
Los Angeles's industrial base — ports & industry — 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 Los Angeles customers include:
The picks that come up most in Los Angeles are industrial sewing and cutting equipment, CNC machining centers, injection molding machines, and food 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 Los Angeles's apparel and textile manufacturing, aerospace component manufacturing, food and beverage processing, or furniture and cabinetry manufacturing 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 Los Angeles metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Los Angeles metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Los Angeles metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Los Angeles metro.
Plenty of Los Angeles jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-5, I-10, I-15 and I-80, 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 adjoining Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach form the busiest container port complex in the country, handling containerized and breakbulk cargo. Served by BNSF and Union Pacific, both routed through the Alameda Corridor rail expressway connecting the San Pedro Bay ports to the transcontinental rail yards near downtown. 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 Los Angeles — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Los Angeles crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Los Angeles? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Los Angeles, CA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Los Angeles and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Long Beach | Los Angeles County | 20 mi |
| Anaheim | Orange County | 24 mi |
| Santa Ana | Orange County | 30 mi |
| Glendale | Los Angeles County | 6 mi |
| Pasadena | Los Angeles County | 9 mi |
| Torrance | Los Angeles County | 16 mi |
| Pomona | Los Angeles County | 28 mi |
| Ontario | San Bernardino County | 34 mi |
| Carson | Los Angeles County | 15 mi |
| City of Industry | — | — |
| Santa Fe Springs | Los Angeles County | 12 mi |
| Vernon | Los Angeles County | 3 mi |
| Riverside | Riverside County | 49 mi |
| Irvine | Orange County | 36 mi |
| Fontana | San Bernardino County | 46 mi |
| Huntington Beach | Orange County | 31 mi |
| Santa Clarita | Los Angeles County | 29 mi |
| Garden Grove | Orange County | 26 mi |
| Rancho Cucamonga | San Bernardino County | 37 mi |
| Corona | Riverside County | 41 mi |
| Lancaster | Los Angeles County | 45 mi |
| Palmdale | Los Angeles County | 37 mi |
| Valencia | Los Angeles County | 34 mi |
| Orange | Orange County | 29 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Los Angeles services, Crane & Rigging Services across California or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across California — pick the nearest crew:
Most Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles crew.
rigging contractors in Los Angeles →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Los Angeles as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Los Angeles →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Los Angeles.
machine tool movers in Los Angeles →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Los Angeles plants.
Los Angeles plant relocation →In Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles.
The same Los Angeles 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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