Inside a Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles and nearby California 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 Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles's ports & industry 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 Los Angeles. The stock here is older multi-tenant industrial buildings in Vernon and Commerce with tight column spacing, low dock heights and narrow street access built long before modern trailer traffic, 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 industrial sewing and cutting equipment, CNC machining centers, injection molding machines, and food processing lines — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
Plenty of Los Angeles, CA work — ports & industry — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same heavy lift rigging crews through these CA and regional markets:
The loads that need these methods are the heaviest and most awkward in the building. Typical Los Angeles heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves Los Angeles's apparel and textile manufacturing, aerospace component manufacturing, food and beverage processing, and furniture and cabinetry manufacturing, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the Vernon industrial district south of downtown, the City of Industry business park in the San Gabriel Valley, the Alameda Corridor rail belt through Commerce and Carson, and the harbor-area industrial district near the ports.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the Los Angeles metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the Los Angeles metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the Los Angeles metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the Los Angeles metro.
Plenty of Los Angeles jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-5, I-10, I-15 and I-80, 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.
The heaviest pieces bound for Los Angeles often arrive by rail or water before they ever reach a road. Served by BNSF and Union Pacific, both routed through the Alameda Corridor rail expressway connecting the San Pedro Bay ports to the transcontinental rail yards near downtown. The adjoining Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach form the busiest container port complex in the country, handling containerized and breakbulk cargo. Getting a load off a railcar or a barge and onto a trailer is jacking and cribbing work in its own right, and it goes into the same plan as the set at the far end.
Every heavy lift rigging job in Los Angeles, CA 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 Los Angeles jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Los Angeles crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Los Angeles? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Los Angeles, CA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout Los Angeles and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Long Beach | Los Angeles County | 20 mi |
| Anaheim | Orange County | 24 mi |
| Santa Ana | Orange County | 30 mi |
| Glendale | Los Angeles County | 6 mi |
| Pasadena | Los Angeles County | 9 mi |
| Torrance | Los Angeles County | 16 mi |
| Pomona | Los Angeles County | 28 mi |
| Ontario | San Bernardino County | 34 mi |
| Carson | Los Angeles County | 15 mi |
| City of Industry | — | — |
| Santa Fe Springs | Los Angeles County | 12 mi |
| Vernon | Los Angeles County | 3 mi |
| Riverside | Riverside County | 49 mi |
| Irvine | Orange County | 36 mi |
| Fontana | San Bernardino County | 46 mi |
| Huntington Beach | Orange County | 31 mi |
| Santa Clarita | Los Angeles County | 29 mi |
| Garden Grove | Orange County | 26 mi |
| Rancho Cucamonga | San Bernardino County | 37 mi |
| Corona | Riverside County | 41 mi |
| Lancaster | Los Angeles County | 45 mi |
| Palmdale | Los Angeles County | 37 mi |
| Valencia | Los Angeles County | 34 mi |
| Orange | Orange County | 29 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Los Angeles services, Heavy Lift Rigging across California or get a quote.
We run heavy lift rigging in metros across California — pick the nearest crew:
Most Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles crew.
rigging contractors in Los Angeles →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Los Angeles as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Los Angeles →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Los Angeles.
machine tool movers in Los Angeles →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Los Angeles plants.
Los Angeles plant relocation →In Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles.
The same Los Angeles crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Los Angeles: 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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