Finding a crane in Memphis 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 Memphis 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 Memphis, TN 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 Memphis and nearby Tennessee 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 Memphis's America's distribution crossroads 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 Memphis, TN concentrates in the Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park on President's Island, the Memphis International Airport air-cargo corridor, and the President's Island Mississippi River industrial district, 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 buildings around the airport corridor alongside older industrial buildings on President's Island built around barge and rail-served docks, 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 Memphis, TN work — America's distribution crossroads — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same crane and rigging services crews through these TN and regional markets:
Memphis's industrial base — America's distribution crossroads — 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 Memphis customers include:
The picks that come up most in Memphis are material handling conveyors, palletizers and sortation equipment, food processing lines, and grain and bulk handling 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 Memphis's distribution and air-cargo logistics, food and agricultural processing, chemical manufacturing, or agricultural equipment 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 Memphis metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Memphis metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Memphis metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Memphis metro.
Plenty of Memphis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75, 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 Memphis on the Mississippi River at President's Island is one of the largest inland ports in the country, handling bulk grain, fertilizer and industrial cargo by barge. Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Canadian National, CSX and Norfolk Southern, making Memphis one of only a few US metros with five Class I railroads, with Canadian National operating its second-largest classification yard in the country here. 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 Memphis — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in Memphis, TN 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 Memphis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Memphis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Memphis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Memphis, TN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Memphis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Bartlett | Shelby County | 11 mi |
| Germantown | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Collierville | Shelby County | 23 mi |
| Southaven, MS | DeSoto County | 11 mi |
| Olive Branch, MS | DeSoto County | 18 mi |
| Millington | Shelby County | 16 mi |
| Horn Lake, MS | DeSoto County | 13 mi |
| West Memphis, AR | Crittenden County | 8 mi |
| Cordova | Shelby County | 15 mi |
| Ellendale | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Hernando, MS | DeSoto County | 23 mi |
| Forrest City, AR | St. Francis County | 43 mi |
| Lakeland | Shelby County | 18 mi |
| Marion, AR | Crittenden County | 10 mi |
| Arlington | Shelby County | 24 mi |
| Atoka | Tipton County | 25 mi |
| Covington | Tipton County | 37 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Memphis services, Crane & Rigging Services across Tennessee or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across Tennessee — pick the nearest crew:
Most Memphis 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 Memphis crew.
Memphis industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Memphis as one accountable job.
Memphis 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 Memphis.
Memphis CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Memphis plants.
factory relocation in Memphis →In Memphis 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 Memphis.
The same Memphis 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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