Finding a crane in Portland 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 Portland 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 Portland, OR 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 Portland and nearby Oregon 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 Portland's semiconductor & port 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 →
Portland, OR runs on semiconductor & port manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Portland's industrial base — semiconductor & port manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Cleanroom protocol, decontamination sign-off, and tight shock and tilt limits drive the rigging plan. Typical crane lifts for Portland customers include:
The picks that come up most in Portland are semiconductor wafer-fab and cleanroom equipment, CNC machining centers, commercial food-processing and cold-storage lines, and sawmill and wood-planing 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 Portland's semiconductor and electronics manufacturing, athletic footwear and apparel distribution, metal fabrication and machine shops, food and beverage processing, or timber and wood products 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 Portland metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Portland metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Portland metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Portland metro.
Plenty of Portland 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 and I-84, 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 Portland operates marine terminals on the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, including the Terminal 6 container facility and the Terminal 5 bulk terminal in the Rivergate district. Served by BNSF and Union Pacific, both of which cross the Rivergate Industrial District and connect to the Port of Portland's marine 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 Portland — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in Portland, OR 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 Portland jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Portland crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Portland? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Portland, OR and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Portland and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Gresham | Multnomah County | 12 mi |
| Hillsboro | Washington County | 15 mi |
| Beaverton | Washington County | 7 mi |
| Tigard | Washington County | 8 mi |
| Vancouver, WA | Clark County | 8 mi |
| Clackamas | Clackamas County | 10 mi |
| Wilsonville | Clackamas County | 16 mi |
| Tualatin | Washington County | 11 mi |
| Troutdale | Multnomah County | 14 mi |
| Salem | Marion County | 44 mi |
| Aloha | Washington County | 10 mi |
| Lake Oswego | Clackamas County | 7 mi |
| Keizer | Marion County | 41 mi |
| Longview, WA | Cowlitz County | 44 mi |
| Oregon City | Clackamas County | 12 mi |
| McMinnville | Yamhill County | 33 mi |
| West Linn | Clackamas County | 11 mi |
| Woodburn | Marion County | 28 mi |
| Forest Grove | Washington County | 21 mi |
| Newberg | Yamhill County | 21 mi |
| Camas, WA | Clark County | 14 mi |
| Milwaukie | Clackamas County | 6 mi |
| Bethany | Washington County | 10 mi |
| Hayesville | Marion County | 40 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Portland services or get a quote.
Most Portland 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 Portland crew.
Portland industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Portland as one accountable job.
Portland 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 Portland.
Portland CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Portland plants.
factory relocation in Portland →In Portland 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 Portland.
The same Portland 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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