An MRI magnet is one of the heaviest single pieces a Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee metro.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides MRI & medical equipment rigging in Milwaukee, WI 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 Milwaukee and nearby Wisconsin 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 Milwaukee'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 →
Milwaukee's imaging work is anchored by its health systems — Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin, Aurora St. Luke's Medical Center, and Children's Wisconsin — 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.
Milwaukee, WI runs on heavy-equipment manufacturing, 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 Milwaukee replace equipment on a steady cycle. The equipment we rig for them includes:
The buildings set the route. Downtown office towers, the Milwaukee Regional Medical Center campus, universities, and Mitchell Airport carry large central 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 Milwaukee metro.
Gantries, tables, and cabinets moved and set for the install team across the Milwaukee metro.
C-arms, ceiling mounts, and components handled as one sequenced job across the Milwaukee metro.
Linac components rigged into vaults on planned routes across the Milwaukee metro.
Plenty of Milwaukee jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-94, I-43 and I-90, 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. Medical College of Wisconsin, Marquette University, and UW-Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee, WI 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 Milwaukee jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Milwaukee crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Milwaukee? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Milwaukee, WI and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
MRI & Medical Equipment Rigging throughout Milwaukee and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Waukesha | Waukesha County | 17 mi |
| West Allis | Milwaukee County | 5 mi |
| Wauwatosa | Milwaukee County | 5 mi |
| Racine | Racine County | 23 mi |
| Kenosha | Kenosha County | 32 mi |
| New Berlin | Waukesha County | 11 mi |
| Oak Creek | Milwaukee County | 11 mi |
| Menomonee Falls | Waukesha County | 14 mi |
| Germantown | Washington County | 17 mi |
| Waukegan, IL | Lake County | 47 mi |
| Brookfield | Waukesha County | 10 mi |
| Greenfield | Milwaukee County | 8 mi |
| Franklin | Milwaukee County | 12 mi |
| West Bend | Washington County | 30 mi |
| Gurnee, IL | Lake County | 46 mi |
| North Chicago, IL | Lake County | 49 mi |
| Round Lake Beach, IL | Lake County | 47 mi |
| Mount Pleasant | Racine County | 24 mi |
| Muskego | Waukesha County | 15 mi |
| Caledonia | Racine County | 16 mi |
| Zion, IL | Lake County | 41 mi |
| Watertown | Jefferson County | 43 mi |
| Mequon | Ozaukee County | 14 mi |
| South Milwaukee | Milwaukee County | 9 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Milwaukee services or get a quote.
Most Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee crew.
industrial rigging in Milwaukee →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Milwaukee as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Milwaukee →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Milwaukee.
CNC machine movers in Milwaukee →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Milwaukee plants.
Milwaukee plant & factory relocation →In Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee.
The same Milwaukee crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Milwaukee: heavy lift rigging, transformer and generator rigging, 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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