Finding a crane in Miami 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 Miami 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 Miami, 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 Miami 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 Miami's trade, marine & construction 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 Miami, FL concentrates in the Airport West industrial market around Beacon Lakes near Miami International Airport, the Doral and Medley warehouse district, and the Hialeah rail yard 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 predominantly older single-storey concrete tilt-wall and CBS warehouses on tight, narrow-lot parcels with shallow truck courts and lower clear heights than newer distribution stock, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
Miami, FL runs on trade, marine & construction, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Miami's industrial base — trade, marine & construction — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Keeping the rest of production running while machines move is usually the hardest part of the plan. Typical crane lifts for Miami customers include:
The picks that come up most in Miami are conveyor sortation systems, cold storage and blast-freezer racking, aircraft engine and component test stands, and pallet-wrapping and case-picking automation — 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 Miami's apparel and fashion distribution, pharmaceutical and medical distribution, perishable produce and seafood import handling, or aviation parts and MRO 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 Miami metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Miami metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Miami metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Miami metro.
Plenty of Miami 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.
PortMiami handles containerized and breakbulk cargo on Biscayne Bay, with on-dock rail service provided by the Florida East Coast Railway. Served by CSX into the Hialeah freight yard, with the Florida East Coast Railway interchanging Norfolk Southern and CSX traffic through to PortMiami's on-dock rail yard. 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 Miami — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in Miami, 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 Miami jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Miami crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Miami? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Miami, FL and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Miami and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Hialeah | Miami-Dade County | 8 mi |
| Fort Lauderdale | Broward County | 24 mi |
| Hollywood | Broward County | 17 mi |
| Pompano Beach | Broward County | 32 mi |
| Doral | Miami-Dade County | 11 mi |
| Miami Gardens | Miami-Dade County | 12 mi |
| Homestead | Miami-Dade County | 28 mi |
| Medley | Miami-Dade County | 9 mi |
| Pembroke Pines | Broward County | 16 mi |
| Opa-locka | Miami-Dade County | 10 mi |
| Miramar | Broward County | 15 mi |
| Coral Springs | Broward County | 35 mi |
| Davie | Broward County | 20 mi |
| Boca Raton | Palm Beach County | 41 mi |
| Plantation | Broward County | 25 mi |
| Miami Beach | Miami-Dade County | 4 mi |
| Sunrise | Broward County | 25 mi |
| Kendall | Miami-Dade County | 10 mi |
| Deerfield Beach | Broward County | 38 mi |
| Lauderhill | Broward County | 25 mi |
| Weston | Broward County | 26 mi |
| Delray Beach | Palm Beach County | 48 mi |
| Tamarac | Broward County | 31 mi |
| Carol City | Miami-Dade County | 12 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Miami services, Crane & Rigging Services across Florida or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across Florida — pick the nearest crew:
Most Miami 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 Miami crew.
Miami riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Miami as one accountable job.
Miami 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 Miami.
Miami CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Miami plants.
plant relocation in Miami →In Miami 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 Miami.
The same Miami 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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