Inside a Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis, IN 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 Indianapolis and nearby Indiana 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 Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis's manufacturing & logistics core 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 Indianapolis. The stock here is large clear-span single-storey distribution and warehouse buildings concentrated along the I-70 West corridor and near the airport, 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 pharmaceutical production and packaging equipment, CNC machining centers, jet engine assembly and test equipment, and conveyor and sortation systems — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
Indianapolis, IN runs on manufacturing & logistics core, 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 Indianapolis heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves Indianapolis's pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, automotive and diesel parts and components, aerospace and jet engine component manufacturing, and intermodal freight and warehouse distribution, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the CSX Avon Yard and I-70 West corridor through Plainfield and Avon, the Norfolk Southern Hawthorne Yard rail district, the Airport Cargo District near Indianapolis International Airport, and the I-465 South industrial corridor.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the Indianapolis metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the Indianapolis metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the Indianapolis metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the Indianapolis metro.
Plenty of Indianapolis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-65, I-70 and I-69, 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 Indianapolis, IN 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 Indianapolis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Indianapolis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Indianapolis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Indianapolis, IN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout Indianapolis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Carmel | Hamilton County | 15 mi |
| Fishers | Hamilton County | 15 mi |
| Greenwood | Johnson County | 11 mi |
| Plainfield | Hendricks County | 14 mi |
| Noblesville | Hamilton County | 21 mi |
| Whitestown | Boone County | 19 mi |
| Avon | Hendricks County | 13 mi |
| Franklin | Johnson County | 21 mi |
| Lebanon | Boone County | 25 mi |
| Anderson | Madison County | 34 mi |
| Bloomington | Monroe County | 46 mi |
| Kokomo | Howard County | 50 mi |
| Lawrence | Marion County | 9 mi |
| Columbus | Bartholomew County | 41 mi |
| Westfield | Hamilton County | 19 mi |
| Zionsville | Boone County | 14 mi |
| Brownsburg | Hendricks County | 14 mi |
| Greenfield | Hancock County | 21 mi |
| Fairfield Heights | Hendricks County | 13 mi |
| Shelbyville | Shelby County | 27 mi |
| New Castle | Henry County | 43 mi |
| Broad Ripple | Marion County | 7 mi |
| Frankfort | Clinton County | 40 mi |
| Crawfordsville | Montgomery County | 42 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Indianapolis services or get a quote.
Most Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis crew.
rigging contractors in Indianapolis →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Indianapolis as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Indianapolis →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Indianapolis.
machine tool movers in Indianapolis →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Indianapolis plants.
Indianapolis plant relocation →In Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis.
The same Indianapolis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Indianapolis: chiller and HVAC rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, and lab equipment moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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