Finding a crane in Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh, 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 Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh's steel & Marcellus energy 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 →
Crane work in Pittsburgh, PA concentrates in the Mon Valley steel corridor along the Monongahela River, the Neville Island industrial district, and the Findlay Township industrial area near Pittsburgh International Airport, 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 mill buildings in the river valleys with narrow street access, steep grades and limited crane clearance, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
Pittsburgh, PA runs on steel & Marcellus energy equipment, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Pittsburgh's industrial base — steel & Marcellus energy equipment — 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 Pittsburgh customers include:
The picks that come up most in Pittsburgh are steel rolling and forming equipment, CNC machining centers, welding and fabrication equipment, and material handling cranes — 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 Pittsburgh's steel and metals fabrication, natural gas equipment manufacturing, or robotics and advanced 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 Pittsburgh metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Pittsburgh metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Pittsburgh metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Pittsburgh metro.
Plenty of Pittsburgh 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.
The Port of Pittsburgh spans more than 200 miles of navigable waterway across the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, moving bulk cargo including steel, coal and chemicals by barge. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with Norfolk Southern's Mon Line running the length of the Monongahela River corridor. 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 Pittsburgh — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in Pittsburgh, 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 Pittsburgh jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Pittsburgh crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Pittsburgh? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Pittsburgh, PA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Pittsburgh and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Monroeville | Allegheny County | 11 mi |
| Bethel Park | Allegheny County | 8 mi |
| McKeesport | Allegheny County | 9 mi |
| Cranberry Township | Butler County | 18 mi |
| Robinson | Indiana County | 45 mi |
| Coraopolis | Allegheny County | 11 mi |
| Washington | Washington County | 23 mi |
| Greensburg | Westmoreland County | 26 mi |
| Canonsburg | Washington County | 16 mi |
| Mount Lebanon | Allegheny County | 7 mi |
| Wheeling, WV | Ohio County | 46 mi |
| Plum | Allegheny County | 14 mi |
| New Castle | Lawrence County | 43 mi |
| Allison Park | Allegheny County | 8 mi |
| Murrysville | Westmoreland County | 16 mi |
| West Mifflin | Allegheny County | 9 mi |
| Baldwin | Allegheny County | 7 mi |
| Weirton Heights, WV | Hancock County | 29 mi |
| Upper Saint Clair | Allegheny County | 9 mi |
| Weirton, WV | Hancock County | 31 mi |
| Steubenville, OH | Jefferson County | 34 mi |
| Wilkinsburg | Allegheny County | 6 mi |
| Franklin Park | Allegheny County | 11 mi |
| Indiana | Indiana County | 46 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Pittsburgh services, Crane & Rigging Services across Pennsylvania or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across Pennsylvania — pick the nearest crew:
Most Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh crew.
Pittsburgh industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Pittsburgh as one accountable job.
Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Pittsburgh plants.
factory relocation in Pittsburgh →In Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh.
The same Pittsburgh 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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