Finding a crane in Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City and nearby Utah 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 Salt Lake City's mining & industrial 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 Salt Lake City, UT concentrates in the Redwood Road Industrial District, the Beck Street Industrial District, the Union Pacific-developed Pioneer Business Park and Centennial Business Park on the west side, and the Salt Lake City intermodal terminal district tied to the Utah Inland Port, 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 a mix of older Union Pacific-era single-storey industrial buildings across the west-side rail districts alongside newer distribution buildings built around the inland port, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
Salt Lake City, UT runs on mining & industrial, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
Salt Lake City's industrial base — mining & industrial — 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 Salt Lake City customers include:
The picks that come up most in Salt Lake City are CNC machining centers, mining and mineral-processing equipment, cleanroom medical-device assembly lines, and packaging and sterilization 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 Salt Lake City's medical device manufacturing, aerospace and precision-machined components, mining and mineral-processing equipment, or outdoor-gear and apparel 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 Salt Lake City metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the Salt Lake City metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the Salt Lake City metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the Salt Lake City metro.
Plenty of Salt Lake City jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-15, I-80 and I-70, 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.
Every crane & rigging services job in Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Salt Lake City crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Salt Lake City? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Salt Lake City, UT and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout Salt Lake City and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| West Valley City | Salt Lake County | 8 mi |
| Sandy | Salt Lake County | 12 mi |
| Ogden | Weber County | 32 mi |
| Provo | Utah County | 38 mi |
| Orem | Utah County | 34 mi |
| West Jordan | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Layton | Davis County | 21 mi |
| Tooele | Tooele County | 27 mi |
| Lehi | Utah County | 26 mi |
| Clearfield | Davis County | 25 mi |
| South Jordan | Salt Lake County | 14 mi |
| Millcreek | Salt Lake County | 5 mi |
| Taylorsville | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Murray | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Draper | Salt Lake County | 16 mi |
| Bountiful | Davis County | 9 mi |
| Riverton | Salt Lake County | 17 mi |
| Pleasant Grove | Utah County | 29 mi |
| Roy | Weber County | 29 mi |
| Spanish Fork | Utah County | 46 mi |
| Kearns | Salt Lake County | 9 mi |
| Cottonwood Heights | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Midvale | Salt Lake County | 10 mi |
| Springville | Utah County | 44 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Salt Lake City services or get a quote.
Most Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City crew.
Salt Lake City riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Salt Lake City as one accountable job.
Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Salt Lake City plants.
plant relocation in Salt Lake City →In Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
The same Salt Lake City 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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