Finding a crane in Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia, PA 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 Philadelphia and nearby Pennsylvania 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 Philadelphia's port, refinery & manufacturing 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 Philadelphia, PA concentrates in the Philadelphia Navy Yard redevelopment south of the city, the Tacony-Bridesburg-Kensington riverfront industrial belt, and PhilaPort's Southport terminal 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 older multi-storey brick industrial buildings along the Kensington and Port Richmond riverfront with tight column spacing and small freight elevators, alongside newer single-storey buildings at the Navy Yard, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
Philadelphia, PA runs on port, refinery & manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Philadelphia's industrial base — port, refinery & manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Turnaround windows, site safety rules, and heavy concentrated loads on process pads set the schedule. Typical crane lifts for Philadelphia customers include:
The picks that come up most in Philadelphia are pharmaceutical process and packaging equipment, food processing lines, marine fabrication equipment, and CNC machining centers — 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 Philadelphia's pharmaceutical manufacturing, food processing, shipbuilding and marine fabrication, or chemical processing 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 Philadelphia metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Philadelphia metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Philadelphia metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Philadelphia metro.
Plenty of Philadelphia jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95, 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.
PhilaPort on the Delaware River handles containerized, breakbulk and auto import-export cargo. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with a CSX intermodal yard and Norfolk Southern trackage both adjoining PhilaPort's Delaware River terminals. 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 Philadelphia — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in Philadelphia, PA 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 Philadelphia jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Philadelphia crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Philadelphia? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Philadelphia, PA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Philadelphia and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Camden, NJ | Camden County | 3 mi |
| Chester | Delaware County | 13 mi |
| Norristown | Montgomery County | 15 mi |
| King of Prussia | Montgomery County | 16 mi |
| Bensalem | Bucks County | 15 mi |
| Levittown | Bucks County | 23 mi |
| Trenton, NJ | Mercer County | 29 mi |
| Conshohocken | Montgomery County | 11 mi |
| Essington | Delaware County | 9 mi |
| Allentown | Lehigh County | 49 mi |
| Reading | Berks County | 48 mi |
| Bethlehem | Northampton County | 48 mi |
| Wilmington, DE | New Castle County | 25 mi |
| Cherry Hill, NJ | Camden County | 7 mi |
| Vineland, NJ | Cumberland County | 33 mi |
| South Vineland, NJ | Cumberland County | 36 mi |
| Abington | Montgomery County | 12 mi |
| Jackson, NJ | Camden County | 20 mi |
| Havertown | Delaware County | 8 mi |
| North Brunswick, NJ | Middlesex County | 50 mi |
| Sicklerville, NJ | Camden County | 19 mi |
| Mount Laurel, NJ | Burlington County | 15 mi |
| Hillsborough, NJ | Somerset County | 46 mi |
| Sewell, NJ | Gloucester County | 13 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Philadelphia services, Crane & Rigging Services across Pennsylvania or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across Pennsylvania — pick the nearest crew:
Most Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia crew.
rigging contractors in Philadelphia →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Philadelphia as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Philadelphia →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Philadelphia.
machine tool movers in Philadelphia →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Philadelphia plants.
Philadelphia plant relocation →In Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia.
The same Philadelphia 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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