Inside a Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City and nearby Utah 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 Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City's mining & industrial 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 Salt Lake City. The stock here is a mix of older Union Pacific-era single-storey industrial buildings across the west-side rail districts alongside newer distribution buildings built around the inland port, 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 CNC machining centers, mining and mineral-processing equipment, cleanroom medical-device assembly lines, and packaging and sterilization equipment — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
Salt Lake City, UT runs on mining & industrial, 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 Salt Lake City heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves Salt Lake City's medical device manufacturing, aerospace and precision-machined components, mining and mineral-processing equipment, and outdoor-gear and apparel manufacturing, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the Redwood Road Industrial District, the Beck Street Industrial District, the Union Pacific-developed Pioneer Business Park and Centennial Business Park on the west side, and the Salt Lake City intermodal terminal district tied to the Utah Inland Port.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the Salt Lake City metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the Salt Lake City metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the Salt Lake City metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the Salt Lake City metro.
Plenty of Salt Lake City jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-15, I-80 and I-70, 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 Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Salt Lake City crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Salt Lake City? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Salt Lake City, UT and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout Salt Lake City and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| West Valley City | Salt Lake County | 8 mi |
| Sandy | Salt Lake County | 12 mi |
| Ogden | Weber County | 32 mi |
| Provo | Utah County | 38 mi |
| Orem | Utah County | 34 mi |
| West Jordan | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Layton | Davis County | 21 mi |
| Tooele | Tooele County | 27 mi |
| Lehi | Utah County | 26 mi |
| Clearfield | Davis County | 25 mi |
| South Jordan | Salt Lake County | 14 mi |
| Millcreek | Salt Lake County | 5 mi |
| Taylorsville | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Murray | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Draper | Salt Lake County | 16 mi |
| Bountiful | Davis County | 9 mi |
| Riverton | Salt Lake County | 17 mi |
| Pleasant Grove | Utah County | 29 mi |
| Roy | Weber County | 29 mi |
| Spanish Fork | Utah County | 46 mi |
| Kearns | Salt Lake County | 9 mi |
| Cottonwood Heights | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Midvale | Salt Lake County | 10 mi |
| Springville | Utah County | 44 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Salt Lake City services or get a quote.
Most Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City crew.
Salt Lake City riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Salt Lake City as one accountable job.
Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Salt Lake City plants.
plant relocation in Salt Lake City →In Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
The same Salt Lake City crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Salt Lake City: chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator 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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