The AstroCrane HISTORY:

In 1980, Rick Marshall and Martin Wright started a company for welding and steel fabrication boasting one crane for equipment. By the end of that decade, they had leveraged Astro Welding & Fabricating  with its single piece of equipment into a large-scale fabricating and erecting business known as Astro Crane Services, with a whole fleet of cranes at the disposal of customers that extended beyond Astro Crane’s Massachusetts base, into Rhode Island and elsewhere in New England.

By the mid 1990’s, owners Rick and Martin had reached another significant crossroads in their company development: After much forethought and soul-searching, they decided to forge ahead on a more exclusive path, to serve as a premier provider of crane-rental services expanding beyond Massachusetts into other parts of New England, available as à Rhode Island crane rental service and provider of Rhode Island crane hoisting and RI rigging services.

Customers seeking reputable, reliable RI crane hoist and RI rigging service need now look no further than Astro Crane, trusted supplier of RI Crane for rent as well as qualified crane operators to man the versatile equipment involved in lifting, hoisting and rigging operations.

Rick and Marty’s calculated business-risk decision and decisiveness paid off. Today, Astro Crane owns a fleet of over 20 cranes for the provision of rental crane equipment and services to customers in, not only Massachusetts, but Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine, Connecticut, and Vermont. Our expert, experienced and friendly staff, combined with our fleet size and configuration, makes us one of Rhode Island's foremost providers of crane-rental services—known as one of the New England region’s largest and most reputable crane-rental companies.

Our fleet size and range of durable, versatile, heavy-duty vehicles, along with the availability of experienced, qualified operators who can safely run them, make Astro Crane rental services applicable to virtually any and every conceivable situation that calls for real-time, real-world “heavy lifting.”

Our customers know that we care about what we do – we enjoy what we do! Our genuine care and zeal shows in our history, our day-to-day dealings, and through many revealing vignettes like the photo  of Co-Owner Marty Wright operating one of Astro’s first cranes.

When failure is not an option, remember to turn to Astro Crane Services: successfully helping customers all over New England for almost thirty years.

For your heavy-duty needs, you need a heavy-duty provider: you need and want professional-grade equipment, attention, and attentiveness. Tthat’s why our customers in Rhode Island and throughout New England have turned to Astro Crane Services for their crane-rental equipment and operator services for year after year – decade after decade. We deal with risk and risk assessment and management every day, in (literally!) concrete ways.

Our crane services can be used for any conceivable situation now due to the number of cranes we have along with the operators that we provide to run them.



Co-owner Marty Wright operates one of Astro's first cranes.