Inside a Dallas 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 Dallas, TX 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 Dallas and nearby Texas 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 Dallas 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 Dallas's manufacturing & distribution, DFW freight corridor 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 Dallas. The stock here is large single-storey clear-span distribution and light-assembly buildings concentrated around Alliance and the Great Southwest District, built for dock-high trailer loading rather than heavy floor loads, 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 surface-mount electronics lines, CNC machining centers, injection molding machines, and palletizers and conveyor systems — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
Plenty of Dallas, TX work — manufacturing & distribution, DFW freight corridor — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same heavy lift rigging crews through these TX and regional markets:
The loads that need these methods are the heaviest and most awkward in the building. Typical Dallas heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves Dallas's electronics and telecom equipment manufacturing, aerospace component manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment logistics, and food and beverage processing, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the Great Southwest Industrial District spanning Arlington and Grand Prairie, the Alliance Logistics District anchored by BNSF's Alliance intermodal terminal in north Fort Worth, and the DFW Airport logistics corridor.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the Dallas metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the Dallas metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the Dallas metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the Dallas metro.
Plenty of Dallas jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-10, I-20, I-35 and I-45, 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 Dallas, TX 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 Dallas jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Dallas crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Dallas? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Dallas, TX and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout Dallas and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth | Tarrant County | 30 mi |
| Arlington | Tarrant County | 18 mi |
| Irving | Dallas County | 9 mi |
| Garland | Dallas County | 13 mi |
| Grand Prairie | Dallas County | 11 mi |
| Mesquite | Dallas County | 12 mi |
| Carrollton | Dallas County | 13 mi |
| Richardson | Dallas County | 12 mi |
| Denton | Denton County | 35 mi |
| Frisco | Collin County | 25 mi |
| Grapevine | Tarrant County | 19 mi |
| Plano | Collin County | 18 mi |
| McKinney | Collin County | 31 mi |
| Lewisville | Denton County | 21 mi |
| Allen | Collin County | 24 mi |
| Flower Mound | Denton County | 23 mi |
| North Richland Hills | Tarrant County | 25 mi |
| Celina | Collin County | 37 mi |
| Mansfield | Tarrant County | 25 mi |
| Rowlett | Dallas County | 16 mi |
| Euless | Tarrant County | 16 mi |
| DeSoto | Dallas County | 14 mi |
| The Trails of Frisco | Collin County | 26 mi |
| Bedford | Tarrant County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Dallas services, Heavy Lift Rigging across Texas or get a quote.
We run heavy lift rigging in metros across Texas — pick the nearest crew:
Most Dallas 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 Dallas crew.
Dallas riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Dallas as one accountable job.
Dallas 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 Dallas.
Dallas CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Dallas plants.
plant relocation in Dallas →In Dallas 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 Dallas.
The same Dallas crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Dallas: 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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