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Modern Crane & Rigging EST. 1987 · STANVILLE, KY
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Field gallery · Forty years on the boom

Every lift. One standard.

Our own iron, our own crews, our own jobsites across the mountains — not stock. Sixteen thousand safe trips home; some of them are pictured here.

Eastern Kentucky · Southern West Virginia · Southwest Virginia From the family board to the modern job log

The archive.

Prints from the family book, 1967 onward.

Before the job log was digital it was a drawer of prints — the iron the trade was learned on, hauled up hollows and set on ridgelines long before the name went on the door in 1987. These come straight off the family board, warm spots and all.

Archive photograph of an early truck crane on a jobsite, decades back
Archive photograph of family riggers at work in the early years of the trade
Archive photograph from the family's early years in the crane trade
Archive photograph of a crane at work, decades back
Archive photograph of a crane working in the Appalachian coalfields
Archive photograph of a lift underway in the family's early years
Archive photograph from the founding era of Modern Crane and Rigging
Archive photograph of an early Modern Crane lift
Archive photograph of the crew on a jobsite, decades back
Archive photograph of a larger crane as the fleet grew
Archive photograph of a crane on a mountain jobsite
Archive photograph from the family's early crane work
Archive photograph of a crane at work in the family's early years

Thirteen prints, one standard — plan the pick, make the pick, bring everybody home. It was true before it was written down.

The field.

The record as it stands — still being written.

Thirty-some frames from the modern job log: bridge girders, structural steel, mine support, cell towers, transformers on the lowboy. Different loads, same rule — every lift engineered before the boom leaves the ground.

Crane setting a bridge girder across a river
Bridge girder, set across the water. Engineered set — no surprises.
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Crane erecting a lattice communications tower against a sunset sky
Tower steel at last light. Cell tower erection.
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Structural steel being erected by crane
Structural steel. True and plumb, every bay.
Crane providing production lift support at an Eastern Kentucky mine
Mining support. Production lifts at an Eastern Kentucky mine — schedule-driven, safety-first.
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Substation transformer on a multi-axle lowboy trailer
Substation transformer, oversize haul. Heavy & oversize transport.
Modern Crane field job
Crane setting a rooftop HVAC unit
Rooftop HVAC. Set over the edge, right on its curb.
Modern Crane field job
Looking up a lattice tower and crane boom into a blue sky
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Crane working at a mining site in the mountains
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Crane erecting a lattice communications tower
Modern Crane field job
An all-terrain crane at full boom on a ridge at dusk
Still on the boom at last light. The job isn’t done till the load is set and the crew is headed home.
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane field job
Modern Crane's fleet of mobile cranes staged in the yard at Mare Creek, Stanville
The yard at Mare Creek, Stanville. Where every dispatch starts.

The next lift is yours.

Tell us what you’re lifting and where. A dispatcher — not a call center — reads every request, and the phone works the same at 2 a.m. as it does at 2 p.m.

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Modern Crane & Rigging

Rigging in these mountains since ’67; the name on the door since ’87 — and still answering our own phone.

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Modern Crane & Rigging
474 Mare Creek, Stanville, KY 41659
Local: 606-478-5600
24/7 dispatch: 1-877-272-6351
Hours: 24/7 — never closes
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