An MRI magnet is one of the heaviest single pieces a Jacksonville hospital will ever bring through its doors — and it has to arrive without a scratch, inside a building that never closes. We plan the route, rig the magnet and its components, and set them for the OEM's install team across the Jacksonville metro.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides MRI & medical equipment rigging in Jacksonville, FL and the surrounding metro. We rig MRI magnets, CT, PET/CT, cath lab, and linac components into and out of hospitals and imaging centers — on planned routes, with tilt and shock monitoring, sequenced around the OEM's install team. Our crews work across Jacksonville and nearby Florida metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Imaging equipment does not move like freight. A magnet has strict tilt and shock limits, a CT gantry carries delicate rotating components, and the route runs through corridors, elevators, and floors that were built for patients. In Jacksonville's hospitals and imaging centers, the move is also planned around infection control and a schedule that keeps clinical areas open.
Badass Logistics plans the route from the truck to the suite — rated elevator, wall or knockout opening, or a crane pick to an upper floor — and checks floor loading at every stage. Magnet ramp-down, cryogens, and calibration stay with the OEM; we rig and set what they hand us, with monitoring recorded throughout. How to move an MRI machine →
Jacksonville's imaging work is anchored by its health systems — Mayo Clinic Florida, UF Health Jacksonville, and Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville — and by the outpatient imaging centers that ring them. Each of them replaces scanners on a cycle, and each replacement means a magnet out, a magnet in, and a suite that has to reopen on a date.
Jacksonville, FL runs on JAXPORT cargo & plant equipment, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same MRI and medical equipment rigging standards across the region:
Hospital imaging departments, outpatient imaging centers, and cancer centers across Jacksonville replace equipment on a steady cycle. The equipment we rig for them includes:
The buildings set the route. Downtown and Southbank office towers, the Mayo Clinic and UF Health campuses, NAS Jacksonville and Jacksonville International carry the large HVAC plant, and an imaging suite in any of them can sit on an upper floor, in a basement, or behind a corridor that was never built for a magnet.
Magnets rigged in, out, and between suites with tilt and shock monitoring across the Jacksonville metro.
Gantries, tables, and cabinets moved and set for the install team across the Jacksonville metro.
C-arms, ceiling mounts, and components handled as one sequenced job across the Jacksonville metro.
Linac components rigged into vaults on planned routes across the Jacksonville metro.
Plenty of Jacksonville jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-95, I-75, I-10 and I-4, 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.
Research imaging adds a second kind of job. Mayo Clinic Florida research and University of North Florida run scanners and instruments outside the clinical schedule, often in older research buildings where the route has to be engineered around floors that were never rated for a magnet.
Every MRI & medical equipment rigging job in Jacksonville, FL 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 Jacksonville jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Jacksonville crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Jacksonville? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Jacksonville, FL and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
MRI & Medical Equipment Rigging throughout Jacksonville and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Orange Park | Clay County | 12 mi |
| Fernandina Beach | Nassau County | 26 mi |
| Yulee | Nassau County | 21 mi |
| St. Augustine | — | — |
| Middleburg | Clay County | 22 mi |
| Green Cove Springs | Clay County | 24 mi |
| Callahan | Nassau County | 19 mi |
| Macclenny | Baker County | 28 mi |
| Ponte Vedra Beach | Saint Johns County | 17 mi |
| Lakeside | Clay County | 16 mi |
| Fruit Cove | Saint Johns County | 15 mi |
| Fleming Island | Clay County | 17 mi |
| Jacksonville Beach | Duval County | 16 mi |
| Oakleaf Plantation | Clay County | 16 mi |
| Palm Valley | Saint Johns County | 19 mi |
| St. Marys, GA | Camden County | 28 mi |
| Kingsland, GA | Camden County | 32 mi |
| Bellair-Meadowbrook Terrace | Clay County | 12 mi |
| Atlantic Beach | Duval County | 15 mi |
| Saint Augustine | Saint Johns County | 37 mi |
| Palatka | Putnam County | 47 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Jacksonville services or get a quote.
Most Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville crew.
Jacksonville industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Jacksonville as one accountable job.
Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville.
Jacksonville CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Jacksonville plants.
factory relocation in Jacksonville →In Jacksonville 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 Jacksonville.
The same Jacksonville crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Jacksonville: heavy lift rigging and chiller and HVAC rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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