When it's too heavy, too tight, or too expensive to get wrong, you call a rigger. We plan every pick like an engineering problem and run it like a road crew — machinery moving, plant relocation, MRI rigging, crane lifts, jacking and skidding, and millwright work. From a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond.
Quick answer: Industrial rigging is the planning and hands-on work of lifting, moving, and setting heavy equipment — machines, production lines, MRI scanners, transformers, chillers — often through tight doorways or onto elevated pads. Badass Logistics is a rigging company first: our own crews and rigging gear handle every kind of rigging nationwide, from a single machine to a full plant, set and leveled to spec.
Rigging is not one job. Setting a 40,000-lb press on a new foundation, skating a CT scanner down a hospital corridor, craning a chiller onto a roof, and tearing out a production line are four different problems with four different gear lists. What they share is the part that matters: somebody has to measure the load, find the center of gravity, check the floor, and plan the pick before anything leaves the ground.
That's the work Badass Logistics is built around. We own the rigging side — the crews, the jacks, skates, gantries and slings, and the planning — and we run it the same way on every job: survey first, documented lift plan, controlled execution, then set, level, and sign off. One crew from the first measurement to the final shim, so nothing falls into the gap between a rigger, a millwright, and whoever was supposed to move it next.
When a rigged machine has to travel to another building, another city, or another state, we don't hand you off. We manage it as project freight — crated, loaded, and moved through our licensed broker and carrier partners inside the same project plan — and our crew is waiting at the other end to set it.
Machines placed on pads and foundations, anchored, and leveled to the builder's spec.
Hydraulic gantries, carry-deck and mobile cranes for planned, documented lifts.
Toe jacks, air skates, roller dollies, and jack-and-slide for moves a crane can't reach.
Weights, centers of gravity, sling angles, and floor loading worked out before rig day.
Machines skated through doorways, up mezzanines, into basements and out of packed floors.
Floor not ready? We receive, secure, and stage the equipment, then set it on your schedule.
Pick the job closest to yours. Each page covers how that kind of rigging actually gets done — the gear, the planning, and the questions to ask before anyone lifts.
Presses, generators, compressors, and full production lines — disconnected, rigged, moved, and re-leveled by one crew.
Machinery Moving // plant relocationWhole floors, production lines, and multi-site consolidations — sequenced, moved as one project, and reinstalled to spec.
Plant Relocation // machinery removalOld machines, dead lines, and whole plants rigged out cleanly — disconnected, dismantled, and removed so the floor is ready.
Machinery Removal // mri & medicalMRI, CT, PET/CT, cath lab and linac moves — rigged in, rigged out, and handled like the instruments they are.
MRI & Medical // lab & precisionHeavy lab instruments, semiconductor tools, and precision test equipment — rigged, moved, and set with vibration care.
Lab & Precision // cnc machine moversVMCs, HMCs, lathes, grinders, and full machine shops — lifted from OEM points, moved on air-ride, and re-leveled to spec.
CNC Machine Movers // printing press moversOffset presses, digital presses, bindery, and converting lines — torn down in order, moved, and reassembled to register.
Printing Press Movers // crane & riggingCrane lifts planned, rigged, and signaled by our crew — rooftop units, machine picks, and critical lifts.
Crane & Rigging // jacking & skiddingHydraulic gantries, jack-and-slide, toe jacks, and air skates — heavy moves where a crane can't reach.
Jacking & Skidding // millwright servicesMachine installation, anchoring, precision leveling, and alignment — the work that makes a moved machine run right.
Millwright Services // loading & unloadingHeavy-capacity forklift work, machine load-outs, and unloading crated equipment from trucks and containers.
Loading & Unloading // data center riggingGenerators, UPS modules, switchgear, cooling units, and loaded racks — rigged into live and new-build data centers.
Data Center Rigging // chiller & boilerChillers, boilers, cooling towers, rooftop units, and air handlers — craned in, skated down, or rebuilt to fit.
Chiller & Boiler // transformers & generatorsTransformers, generator sets, switchgear, and turbines — jacked, skidded, craned, and set on their foundations.
Transformers & GeneratorsNot stock photos of somebody else's crane. These are our jobs.

Riggers get called for far more than machine shops. If it's heavy, awkward, fragile, or sitting somewhere it was never meant to leave, it's a rigging job. A few more we run regularly:
Semiconductor tools, electron microscopes, lab instruments, and test stands that can't take shock or tilt — moved on air-ride with vibration-conscious handling and set on isolated pads. See lab and precision equipment movers.
Multi-unit presses, folders, converting and packaging lines broken down in sequence, labeled, moved, and reassembled in order. See printing press movers.
Retired machines, dead lines, and whole plants rigged out safely so the floor can be handed back. See machinery removal.
Storage tanks, pressure vessels, reactors, and skids rigged out of process buildings and set on new saddles or foundations.
Rooftop units, cooling towers, and mechanical equipment picked onto roofs and into penthouses, with the lift, the street closure, and the setting planned as one job.
Precast pieces, steel members, modular skids, and enclosures set into place on new construction and plant expansions.
Conveyor systems, pallet racking, mezzanines, and automation cells removed, relocated, and reinstalled around live operations.
Processing, filling, and packaging lines moved with sanitary handling, sequenced so the new room is ready for validation.
Autoclaves, test cells, large machining centers, and tooling moved with the documentation and care those programs expect.
Every lift runs on a written plan — dimensions, weights, rigging geometry, equipment selection, and sequence settled before anyone touches the load. Our crews work to OSHA rigging and signaling requirements, every piece of rigging hardware is load-rated and inspected before the lift, and floor loading gets checked along the entire path of travel, not just under the pick.
No improvised rigging, no guessing at weights off a brochure, no "we'll figure it out on site." If the numbers don't work on paper, the lift doesn't happen until they do.
Plenty of rigging jobs start and end in the same building. The rest need freight: a machine rigged out of one plant, crated, trucked across the country, and set in another. Most companies split that into a rigger on each end and a carrier nobody's watching in the middle.
We run it as one project. The same team that rigs the machine out manages the crating, the load-out, the transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners, and the rig-in at the destination — one schedule, one point of contact, one crew accountable for the machine the whole way.
Local industrial rigging in the country's biggest manufacturing and industrial markets — our own crews and rigging gear, backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations.
Long Beach · Anaheim · Santa Ana
Los Angeles riggersOildale · Shafter · Wasco
Bakersfield riggersRoseville · Elk Grove · Folsom
Sacramento riggersGresham · Hillsboro · Beaverton
Portland riggersTacoma · Bellevue · Kent
Seattle riggersSpokane Valley · Liberty Lake · Cheney
Spokane riggersNampa · Meridian · Caldwell
Boise riggersWest Valley City · Sandy · Ogden
Salt Lake City riggersHenderson · North Las Vegas · Paradise
Las Vegas riggersMesa · Chandler · Glendale
Phoenix riggersRio Rancho · Santa Fe · Los Lunas
Albuquerque riggersAurora · Lakewood · Commerce City
Denver riggersMills · Evansville · Glenrock
Casper riggersLaurel · Lockwood · Shepherd
Billings riggersWest Fargo · Moorhead, MN · Dilworth, MN
Fargo riggersCouncil Bluffs, IA · Bellevue · Papillion
Omaha riggersSt. Paul, AK · Bloomington · Brooklyn Park
Minneapolis riggersWaukesha · West Allis · Wauwatosa
Milwaukee riggersOverland Park, KS · Olathe, KS · Independence
Kansas City riggersSt. Charles, IL · Chesterfield · Florissant
St. Louis riggersJoliet · Aurora · Naperville
Chicago riggersCarmel · Fishers · Greenwood
Indianapolis riggersWarren · Dearborn · Livonia
Detroit riggersDublin · Westerville · Grove City
Columbus riggersParma · Akron · Lorain
Cleveland riggersJeffersonville, IN · New Albany, IN · Shepherdsville
Louisville riggersPasadena · Baytown · Pearland
Houston riggersFort Worth · Arlington · Irving
Dallas riggersNew Braunfels · Schertz · Converse
San Antonio riggersOdessa · Big Spring · Andrews
Midland riggersNorman · Edmond · Moore
Oklahoma City riggersNorth Little Rock · Conway · Benton
Little Rock riggersMetairie · Kenner · Gretna
New Orleans riggersPearl · Ridgeland · Madison
Jackson riggersBartlett · Germantown · Collierville
Memphis riggersMurfreesboro · Franklin · Hendersonville
Nashville riggersHoover · Bessemer · Tuscaloosa
Birmingham riggersMarietta · Sandy Springs · Roswell
Atlanta riggersNorth Charleston · Mount Pleasant · Summerville
Charleston riggersConcord · Gastonia · Rock Hill, SC
Charlotte riggersOrange Park · Fernandina Beach · Yulee
Jacksonville riggersHialeah · Fort Lauderdale · Hollywood
Miami riggersVirginia Beach · Chesapeake · Portsmouth
Norfolk riggersTowson · Dundalk · Glen Burnie
Baltimore riggersCamden, NJ · Chester · Norristown
Philadelphia riggersMonroeville · Bethel Park · McKeesport
Pittsburgh riggersNewark, NJ · Jersey City, NJ · Yonkers
New York riggersCambridge · Quincy · Worcester
Boston riggersNorwood · Blue Ash · Sharonville
Cincinnati riggersSanta Clara · Sunnyvale · Milpitas
San Jose riggersGreer · Mauldin · Simpsonville
Greenville riggersWyoming · Kentwood · Walker
Grand Rapids riggersEast Peoria · Pekin · Morton
Peoria riggersDerby · Andover · Haysville
Wichita riggersSylvania · Maumee · Perrysburg
Toledo riggersEast Ridge · Red Bank · Hixson
Chattanooga riggersMadison · Decatur · Athens
Huntsville riggersPrichard · Saraland · Chickasaw
Mobile riggersBroken Arrow · Owasso · Sand Springs
Tulsa riggersLoves Park · Machesney Park · Belvidere
Rockford riggersKettering · Beavercreek · Huber Heights
Dayton riggersChula Vista · El Cajon · Oceanside
San Diego riggersSan Bernardino · Ontario · Fontana
Riverside riggersPooler · Garden City · Port Wentworth
Savannah riggersBaker · Zachary · Central
Baton Rouge riggersHigh Point · Winston-Salem · Burlington
Greensboro riggersOak Ridge · Maryville · Alcoa
Knoxville riggersCuyahoga Falls · Barberton · Stow
Akron riggersNew Haven · Huntertown · Leo-Cedarville
Fort Wayne riggersEast Lansing · Okemos · Holt
Lansing riggersCheektowaga · Amherst · Tonawanda
Buffalo riggersEast Hartford · West Hartford · New Britain
Hartford riggersBethlehem · Easton · Emmaus
Allentown riggersMillcreek, MO · Wesleyville · Lawrence Park
Erie riggersHenrico · Chesterfield · Petersburg
Richmond riggersSt. Petersburg · Clearwater · Brandon
Tampa riggersPort Arthur · Orange · Nederland
Beaumont riggersPortland · Robstown · Ingleside
Corpus Christi riggersSocorro · Horizon City · San Elizario
El Paso riggersSparks · Carson City · Fernley
Reno riggersFountain · Monument · Manitou Springs
Colorado Springs riggersRoy · Clearfield · Layton
Ogden riggersBettendorf · Moline, IL · Rock Island, IL
Davenport riggersMarion · Hiawatha · Robins
Cedar Rapids riggersDe Pere · Ashwaubenon · Bellevue
Green Bay riggersMishawaka · Granger · Elkhart
South Bend riggersGeorgetown · Nicholasville · Richmond
Lexington riggersPrattville · Wetumpka · Millbrook
Montgomery riggersSend us the equipment and the site. We'll plan the pick and quote it fast.
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