Inside a Atlanta plant there is usually no room for a crane — a roof overhead, live equipment either side, and a floor that has to carry the load the whole way. That is where heavy lift rigging takes over: hydraulic gantries, jacks and cribbing, and skid tracks that move the heaviest pieces in the building without a hook.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides heavy lift rigging in Atlanta, GA and the surrounding metro. We lift, jack, skid, and set heavy equipment with hydraulic gantries, jacking and cribbing, and skid systems — the methods for loads a crane can't reach, can't set up beside, or isn't allowed inside. Our crews work across Atlanta and nearby Georgia metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
A crane needs open sky, outrigger space, and ground that can take the bearing. Most heavy equipment in Atlanta sits where none of that exists — under a bay roof, in a pit, behind a column line, or in a building the load has to roll into. In Atlanta's Southeast distribution & manufacturing plants, the way a heavy piece moves is usually up a few inches, along a planned path, and down onto its set point.
Badass Logistics plans those lifts from the load data out: weight and center of gravity, the lift points the builder allows, floor capacity along the route, and the headroom at every stage. We set hydraulic gantries where the piece has to go up, jack and crib it where it has to come off a truck or a foundation, and skid or roll it where it has to travel. When there is room for a crane, the crane lift and the inside move go into one plan. Jacking and skidding, explained →
The buildings decide the method in Atlanta. The stock here is a mix of large clear-span postwar distribution warehouses along Fulton Industrial Boulevard and older brick industrial buildings near the historic rail corridors east of downtown, which is why so many heavy pieces move under a gantry or on skid track rather than on a hook. The heaviest loads in the metro are aircraft assembly and structural tooling, bottling and packaging lines, material handling and conveyor systems, and warehouse racking and dock equipment — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
Atlanta, GA runs on Southeast distribution & manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same heavy lift rigging standards across the region:
The loads that need these methods are the heaviest and most awkward in the building. Typical Atlanta heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves Atlanta's warehousing and distribution logistics, aerospace manufacturing, and beverage bottling and processing, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the Fulton Industrial Boulevard industrial corridor on the city's west side, the Norcross distribution and warehouse district in Gwinnett County, the Lockheed Martin aircraft assembly complex in Marietta, and the CSX Fairburn Intermodal Terminal district south of the airport.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the Atlanta metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the Atlanta metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the Atlanta metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the Atlanta metro.
Plenty of Atlanta jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-75, I-85, I-20 and I-95, 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 heavy lift rigging job in Atlanta, GA 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 Atlanta jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Atlanta crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Atlanta? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Atlanta, GA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout Atlanta and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Marietta | Cobb County | 17 mi |
| Sandy Springs | Fulton County | 12 mi |
| Roswell | Fulton County | 19 mi |
| Alpharetta | Fulton County | 23 mi |
| Decatur | DeKalb County | 6 mi |
| McDonough | Henry County | 25 mi |
| Lawrenceville | Gwinnett County | 27 mi |
| Smyrna | Cobb County | 12 mi |
| Kennesaw | Cobb County | 23 mi |
| Stockbridge | Henry County | 17 mi |
| Duluth | Gwinnett County | 22 mi |
| Conyers | Rockdale County | 22 mi |
| South Fulton | Fulton County | 20 mi |
| Johns Creek | Fulton County | 22 mi |
| Brookhaven | DeKalb County | 8 mi |
| Stonecrest | DeKalb County | 15 mi |
| Dunwoody | DeKalb County | 14 mi |
| Peachtree Corners | Gwinnett County | 18 mi |
| Gainesville | Hall County | 50 mi |
| Milton | Fulton County | 27 mi |
| Newnan | Coweta County | 35 mi |
| Mableton | Cobb County | 12 mi |
| East Point | Fulton County | 6 mi |
| Peachtree City | Fayette County | 27 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Atlanta services or get a quote.
Most Atlanta 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 Atlanta crew.
Atlanta industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Atlanta as one accountable job.
Atlanta machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Atlanta.
Atlanta CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Atlanta plants.
factory relocation in Atlanta →In Atlanta 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 Atlanta.
The same Atlanta crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Atlanta: chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and data center rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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