Every hour a Minneapolis production floor sits idle costs money. From manufacturing plants to job shops, we rig, haul, and set industrial machinery across the Minneapolis metro — one accountable crew from disconnect to re-level, built to get your line back up on schedule.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides machinery moving in Minneapolis, MN and the surrounding metro. We disconnect, rig, haul, and re-level presses, generators, compressors, and full production lines as one accountable job. Our crews work across Minneapolis and nearby Minnesota metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Most machinery moves fail in the gaps — the rigger who only lifts, the carrier who only drives, the installer who shows up to a machine that was moved wrong. Across Minneapolis's Upper Midwest manufacturing base, Badass Logistics closes those gaps by running rigging, transport, and reinstallation as one job with one crew.
Presses, generators, compressors, production lines, a single machine between bays or a full plant relocation — we plan it on paper first, move it on air skates and air-ride, and set and level it to spec at the new floor. Moving to another facility? It runs as project freight inside the same plan — no hand-off.
The machinery work in Minneapolis is concentrated where the floor space is — the Medical Alley device-manufacturing cluster centered on Fridley, the Midway industrial district straddling Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the Mississippi riverfront milling and grain-processing district. What sits inside follows what the metro actually builds: medical device manufacturing and contract sterilization, grain milling and food processing, industrial electronics and controls, and outdoor power and turf equipment manufacturing. The buildings are a mix of postwar single-storey suburban plants in Fridley and Eagan with clear-span bays alongside older multi-storey brick mill buildings along the riverfront with narrow freight elevators and tight floor plates, and that is usually what decides whether a machine rolls out through a dock door on skates or has to come apart on the floor first.
Minneapolis, MN runs on Upper Midwest manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same machinery moving standards across the region:
Minneapolis's industrial base — Upper Midwest manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Keeping the rest of production running while machines move is usually the hardest part of the plan. Typical machinery moves for Minneapolis customers include:
On Minneapolis floors that most often means cleanroom device-assembly lines, sterilization and packaging equipment, CNC machining centers, grain milling and conveying equipment, and stamping presses — each with its own lift points, its own disconnect list, and its own reason it can't be handled like palletised freight.
Stamping presses, press brakes, shears, and injection molding machines across the Minneapolis metro.
Generator sets, compressors, switchgear, and plant utilities across the Minneapolis metro.
VMCs, lathes, and machining centers — see CNC moving across the Minneapolis metro.
Full lines and multi-machine cells, sequenced around production across the Minneapolis metro.
Plenty of Minneapolis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-35, I-90 and I-94, 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.
Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National, with BNSF's Midway Terminal switching much of the metro's carload traffic. The Port of Minneapolis/St. Paul on the Mississippi River handles barge shipments of grain, aggregates and other bulk commodities. With I-35, I-90 and I-94 carrying the over-the-road legs, a machine leaving a Minneapolis plant has more than one viable routing — and the crating and load plan get built around whichever one it is, not the other way round.
Every machinery moving job in Minneapolis, MN 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 Minneapolis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Minneapolis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Minneapolis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Minneapolis, MN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Machinery Moving throughout Minneapolis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| St. Paul, AK | Aleutians West Census Area County | 3259 mi |
| Bloomington | Hennepin County | 10 mi |
| Brooklyn Park | Hennepin County | 9 mi |
| Plymouth | Hennepin County | 10 mi |
| Eagan | Dakota County | 13 mi |
| Maple Grove | Hennepin County | 11 mi |
| Eden Prairie | Hennepin County | 13 mi |
| Burnsville | Dakota County | 15 mi |
| Shakopee | Scott County | 18 mi |
| Rogers | Hennepin County | 20 mi |
| Saint Paul | Ramsey County | 9 mi |
| Woodbury | Washington County | 15 mi |
| West Coon Rapids | Hennepin County | 13 mi |
| Coon Rapids | Anoka County | 10 mi |
| Blaine | Anoka County | 13 mi |
| Lakeville | Dakota County | 23 mi |
| Minnetonka | Hennepin County | 13 mi |
| Apple Valley | Dakota County | 17 mi |
| Edina | Hennepin County | 8 mi |
| Minnetonka Mills | Hennepin County | 9 mi |
| Saint Louis Park | Hennepin County | 5 mi |
| Maplewood | Ramsey County | 13 mi |
| Richfield | Hennepin County | 7 mi |
| Cottage Grove | Washington County | 19 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Minneapolis services or get a quote.
Most Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis crew.
industrial rigging in Minneapolis →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Minneapolis.
CNC machine movers in Minneapolis →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Minneapolis plants.
Minneapolis plant & factory relocation →In Minneapolis we also run riggers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Minneapolis.
The same Minneapolis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Minneapolis: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and printing press moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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