Inside a Columbus 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 Columbus, OH 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 Columbus and nearby Ohio 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 Columbus 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 Columbus's distribution & advanced 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 Columbus. The stock here is large clear-span speculative distribution buildings with high dock-door counts near Rickenbacker alongside older lower-clearance manufacturing buildings closer to the urban core, 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 conveyor and sortation systems, forklifts and reach trucks, injection molding machines, extrusion lines, and packaging and palletizing equipment — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
Plenty of Columbus, OH work — distribution & advanced manufacturing — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same heavy lift rigging crews through these OH and regional markets:
The loads that need these methods are the heaviest and most awkward in the building. Typical Columbus heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves Columbus's third-party logistics and distribution warehousing, food and beverage processing, plastics and rubber product manufacturing, and steel service centers and metal fabrication, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park south of the city, the Southeast industrial submarket along I-270 and US-33, and the Buckeye Yard rail-served industrial area.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the Columbus metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the Columbus metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the Columbus metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the Columbus metro.
Plenty of Columbus 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-71, I-75 and I-90, 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 Columbus, OH 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 Columbus jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Columbus crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Columbus? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Columbus, OH and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout Columbus and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin | Franklin County | 11 mi |
| Westerville | Franklin County | 12 mi |
| Grove City | Franklin County | 7 mi |
| Reynoldsburg | Franklin County | 10 mi |
| Hilliard | Franklin County | 10 mi |
| Gahanna | Franklin County | 8 mi |
| Groveport | Franklin County | 8 mi |
| Marysville | Union County | 27 mi |
| Lancaster | Fairfield County | 27 mi |
| Newark | Licking County | 32 mi |
| Springfield | Clark County | 43 mi |
| Delaware | Delaware County | 24 mi |
| Marion | Marion County | 44 mi |
| Upper Arlington | Franklin County | 4 mi |
| Chillicothe | Ross County | 43 mi |
| Pickerington | Fairfield County | 14 mi |
| Whitehall | Franklin County | 6 mi |
| Mount Vernon | Knox County | 40 mi |
| Pataskala | Licking County | 17 mi |
| Worthington | Franklin County | 9 mi |
| Washington Court House | Fayette County | 38 mi |
| Circleville | Pickaway County | 25 mi |
| Bexley | Franklin County | 3 mi |
| Bellefontaine | Logan County | 49 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Columbus services, Heavy Lift Rigging across Ohio or get a quote.
We run heavy lift rigging in metros across Ohio — pick the nearest crew:
Most Columbus 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 Columbus crew.
Columbus riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Columbus as one accountable job.
Columbus 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 Columbus.
Columbus CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Columbus plants.
plant relocation in Columbus →In Columbus 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 Columbus.
The same Columbus crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Columbus: 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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