Finding a crane in St. Louis 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 St. Louis 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 St. Louis, MO 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 St. Louis and nearby Missouri 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 St. Louis's manufacturing & Mississippi barge corridor 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 St. Louis, MO concentrates in the Earth City Industrial area near the Missouri River, America's Central Port and River's Edge Business Park in Granite City, Illinois, the Kelsey Business & Technology Park, and the St. Louis riverfront port district along the Mississippi, 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 large single-storey aerospace and automotive assembly plants alongside older multi-storey brick industrial buildings near the riverfront with tighter dock access, which usually decides whether the crane sets the load inside through a roof opening or at the door for the crew to skate in.
St. Louis, MO runs on manufacturing & Mississippi barge corridor, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same crane and rigging services standards across the region:
St. Louis's industrial base — manufacturing & Mississippi barge corridor — 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 St. Louis customers include:
The picks that come up most in St. Louis are aircraft assembly jigs and tooling, stamping presses, brewing and packaging line equipment, chemical process vessels, 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 St. Louis's aerospace and defense manufacturing, automotive assembly plants, brewing and food and beverage processing, chemical and agri-science manufacturing, or stainless steel process equipment fabrication 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 St. Louis metro.
Presses and production equipment lifted on and off trucks or into buildings across the St. Louis metro.
Close-to-capacity, high-value, and two-crane picks with detailed plans across the St. Louis metro.
Tanks, vessels, generators, and skids placed on foundations and pads across the St. Louis metro.
Plenty of St. Louis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-70, I-44, I-35 and I-29, 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.
St. Louis sits at the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers and hosts the nation's second-largest inland port by tonnage, with barge terminals along the riverfront and at America's Central Port in Granite City, Illinois. Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, CSX, Canadian National and CPKC (formerly Kansas City Southern), with the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis switching the terminal district. 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 St. Louis — and both picks go into the same lift plan.
Every crane & rigging services job in St. Louis, MO 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 St. Louis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same St. Louis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of St. Louis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout St. Louis, MO and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Crane & Rigging Services throughout St. Louis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| St. Charles, IL | Kane County | 248 mi |
| Chesterfield | Saint Louis County | 21 mi |
| Florissant | Saint Louis County | 13 mi |
| O'Fallon | Saint Charles County | 30 mi |
| Earth City | Saint Louis County | 18 mi |
| Hazelwood | Saint Louis County | 14 mi |
| Wentzville | Saint Charles County | 38 mi |
| Fenton | Saint Louis County | 15 mi |
| Granite City, IL | Madison County | 6 mi |
| Saint Charles | Saint Charles County | 19 mi |
| Saint Peters | Saint Charles County | 26 mi |
| Belleville, IL | Saint Clair County | 14 mi |
| Oakville | Saint Louis County | 12 mi |
| Wildwood | Saint Louis County | 25 mi |
| University City | Saint Louis County | 6 mi |
| Ballwin | Saint Louis County | 19 mi |
| Upper Alton, IL | Madison County | 20 mi |
| O'Fallon, IL | Saint Clair County | 16 mi |
| Mehlville | Saint Louis County | 11 mi |
| Kirkwood | Saint Louis County | 12 mi |
| Maryland Heights | Saint Louis County | 14 mi |
| East Saint Louis, IL | Saint Clair County | 3 mi |
| Alton, IL | Madison County | 18 mi |
| Edwardsville, IL | Madison County | 18 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our St. Louis services, Crane & Rigging Services across Missouri or get a quote.
We run crane & rigging services in metros across Missouri — pick the nearest crew:
Most St. Louis 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 St. Louis crew.
industrial rigging in St. Louis →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across St. Louis as one accountable job.
machinery moving in St. Louis →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in St. Louis.
CNC machine movers in St. Louis →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for St. Louis plants.
St. Louis plant & factory relocation →In St. Louis 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 St. Louis.
The same St. Louis 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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