Inside a Midland 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 Midland, 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 Midland 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 Midland 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 Midland's Permian Basin oilfield 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 Midland. The stock here is dominated by outdoor pipe and equipment laydown yards and pre-engineered metal fabrication shops with overhead bridge cranes for rig components, rather than multi-storey buildings, 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 workover and drilling rig components, pressure pumping units, wellhead and pipe fabrication equipment, and frac sand transload equipment — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
Plenty of Midland, TX work — Permian Basin oilfield — 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 Midland heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves Midland's oilfield equipment manufacturing and repair, pressure pumping and well-completion equipment, drilling rig component fabrication, and frac sand transload and proppant handling, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the David Mims Business Park along I-20 west of Loop 250 and the Loop 250 industrial strip encircling the city.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the Midland metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the Midland metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the Midland metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the Midland metro.
Plenty of Midland 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 Midland, 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 Midland jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Midland crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Midland? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Midland, TX and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout Midland and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Odessa | Ector County | 20 mi |
| Big Spring | Howard County | 39 mi |
| Andrews | Andrews County | 35 mi |
| Stanton | Martin County | 19 mi |
| Gardendale | Ector County | 18 mi |
| Greenwood | Midland County | 11 mi |
| Crane | Crane County | 44 mi |
| Monahans | Ward County | 55 mi |
| West Odessa | Ector County | 27 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Midland services, Heavy Lift Rigging across Texas or get a quote.
We run heavy lift rigging in metros across Texas — pick the nearest crew:
Most Midland 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 Midland crew.
Midland riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Midland as one accountable job.
Midland 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 Midland.
Midland CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Midland plants.
plant relocation in Midland →In Midland 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 Midland.
The same Midland crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Midland: transformer and generator rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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