Finding a crane in San Antonio 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 San Antonio 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 San Antonio, TX 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 San Antonio and nearby Texas 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 San Antonio's manufacturing & Eagle Ford energy 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 San Antonio, TX concentrates in the Port San Antonio campus and East Kelly Railport on the city's south side, the automotive assembly and stamping campus on the far south side, and the Interstate 10/Interstate 35 interchange industrial corridor, 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 large clear-span automotive assembly and stamping buildings on the far south side and older single-storey hangar and shop buildings at the former Kelly Air Force Base now part of Port San Antonio, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
Plenty of San Antonio, TX work — manufacturing & Eagle Ford energy — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same crane and rigging services crews through these TX and regional markets:
San Antonio's industrial base — manufacturing & Eagle Ford energy — 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 San Antonio customers include:
The picks that come up most in San Antonio are stamping presses, vehicle assembly line robotics, aircraft engine and airframe overhaul equipment, CNC machining centers, and railcar transload and handling 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 San Antonio's automotive assembly and stamping, automotive drivetrain and axle component manufacturing, aircraft maintenance and modification, or military depot-level maintenance and logistics 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 San Antonio metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the San Antonio metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the San Antonio metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the San Antonio metro.
Plenty of San Antonio jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-10, I-20, I-35 and I-45, 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 San Antonio, TX 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 San Antonio jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same San Antonio crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of San Antonio? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout San Antonio, TX and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout San Antonio and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| New Braunfels | Comal County | 29 mi |
| Schertz | Guadalupe County | 16 mi |
| Converse | Bexar County | 13 mi |
| Seguin | Guadalupe County | 33 mi |
| Boerne | Kendall County | 29 mi |
| Universal City | Bexar County | 15 mi |
| Cibolo | Guadalupe County | 19 mi |
| Floresville | Wilson County | 29 mi |
| Pleasanton | Atascosa County | 32 mi |
| San Marcos | Hays County | 46 mi |
| Canyon Lake | Comal County | 34 mi |
| Live Oak | Bexar County | 14 mi |
| Timberwood Park | Bexar County | 19 mi |
| Hondo | Medina County | 39 mi |
| Selma | Bexar County | 16 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our San Antonio services, Crane & Rigging Services across Texas or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across Texas — pick the nearest crew:
Most San Antonio 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 San Antonio crew.
San Antonio riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across San Antonio as one accountable job.
San Antonio 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 San Antonio.
San Antonio CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for San Antonio plants.
plant relocation in San Antonio →In San Antonio 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 San Antonio.
The same San Antonio 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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