Inside a New York 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 New York, NY 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 New York and nearby New York 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 New York 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 New York's construction & infrastructure 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 New York. The stock here is a mix of early-20th-century multi-storey loft and warehouse buildings with narrow freight elevators and low dock clearances in Sunset Park and Maspeth, alongside single-storey market and cold-storage buildings at Hunts Point, 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 refrigeration and cold-storage systems, produce and meat-market handling equipment, garment cutting and pattern equipment, and structural steel fabrication equipment — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
New York, NY runs on construction & infrastructure, 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 New York heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves New York's wholesale food distribution, garment cutting and sample production, film and television production, and metal fabrication and structural steel, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center and industrial park in the South Bronx, the Bush Terminal / Industry City waterfront industrial complex in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and the Maspeth Industrial Business Zone in western Queens.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the New York metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the New York metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the New York metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the New York metro.
Plenty of New York jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-87, I-90, I-95 and I-81, 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 New York often arrive by rail or water before they ever reach a road. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern through the New York New Jersey Rail car-float operation across Upper New York Bay between Jersey City and Brooklyn. The Port of New York and New Jersey is the largest container port on the US East Coast. 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 New York, NY 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 New York jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same New York crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of New York? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout New York, NY and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout New York and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Newark, NJ | Essex County | 9 mi |
| Jersey City, NJ | Hudson County | 4 mi |
| Yonkers | Westchester County | 16 mi |
| Elizabeth, NJ | Union County | 11 mi |
| Brooklyn | Kings County | 5 mi |
| Bronx, ID | Bonner County | 2131 mi |
| Edison, NJ | Middlesex County | 25 mi |
| Secaucus, NJ | Hudson County | 6 mi |
| Bayonne, NJ | Hudson County | 7 mi |
| Long Island City | — | — |
| New York City | — | 0 mi |
| Queens | Queens County | 9 mi |
| Manhattan | New York County | 5 mi |
| The Bronx | Bronx County | 12 mi |
| Staten Island | Richmond County | 13 mi |
| Paterson, NJ | Passaic County | 17 mi |
| Stamford, CT | Western Connecticut Planning Region County | 34 mi |
| North Stamford, CT | Western Connecticut Planning Region County | 38 mi |
| Norwalk, CT | Western Connecticut Planning Region County | 42 mi |
| Greenburgh | Westchester County | 24 mi |
| Clifton, NJ | Passaic County | 13 mi |
| East Norwalk, CT | Western Connecticut Planning Region County | 42 mi |
| New Rochelle | Westchester County | 18 mi |
| Brick, NJ | Ocean County | 46 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our New York services or get a quote.
Most New York 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 New York crew.
New York industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across New York as one accountable job.
New York machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in New York.
New York CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for New York plants.
factory relocation in New York →In New York 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 New York.
The same New York crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in New York: chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, printing press 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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