Inside a Spokane 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 Spokane, WA 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 Spokane and nearby Washington 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 Spokane 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 Spokane's mining & manufacturing 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 Spokane. The stock here is a mix of new clear-span warehouse buildings recently built on the West Plains and older postwar single-storey industrial buildings in the Spokane Valley corridor, 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, medical and dental device assembly equipment, wood processing and planing equipment, metal fabrication and welding equipment, and aerospace tooling and fixtures — each one planned from its weight, lift points, and the floor under it.
Spokane, WA runs on mining & manufacturing, 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 Spokane heavy lifts include:
That equipment serves Spokane's medical and dental equipment manufacturing, wood and paper products manufacturing, metals fabrication and machining, aerospace component manufacturing, and food and agribusiness processing, where a lift usually happens beside machinery that keeps running. Most of our jacking and gantry work here lands in the West Plains industrial area near Spokane International Airport, the Spokane Valley industrial corridor between Interstate 90 and State Route 290, and the Spokane Business & Industrial Park in Spokane Valley.
Loads lifted and traversed under roofs and inside bays where a crane cannot set up across the Spokane metro.
Heavy pieces raised off trailers, foundations, and pits in controlled stages across the Spokane metro.
Loads moved along engineered skid tracks or on rollers to the set point across the Spokane metro.
Equipment lowered onto anchors, soleplates, and foundations to the layout across the Spokane metro.
Plenty of Spokane 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-90 and I-82, 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 Spokane, WA 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 Spokane jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Spokane crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Spokane? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Spokane, WA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Heavy Lift Rigging throughout Spokane and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Spokane Valley | Spokane County | 9 mi |
| Liberty Lake | Spokane County | 15 mi |
| Cheney | Spokane County | 14 mi |
| Airway Heights | Spokane County | 8 mi |
| Deer Park | Spokane County | 21 mi |
| Post Falls, ID | Kootenai County | 23 mi |
| Coeur d'Alene, ID | Kootenai County | 30 mi |
| Medical Lake | Spokane County | 13 mi |
| Hayden, ID | Kootenai County | 31 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Spokane services, Heavy Lift Rigging across Washington or get a quote.
We run heavy lift rigging in metros across Washington — pick the nearest crew:
Most Spokane 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 Spokane crew.
Spokane industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Spokane as one accountable job.
Spokane 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 Spokane.
Spokane CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Spokane plants.
factory relocation in Spokane →In Spokane 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 Spokane.
The same Spokane crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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