When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Billings calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Billings metro — from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, rigged, moved, and set by one accountable crew.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides industrial rigging in Billings, MT and the surrounding metro. We handle engineered lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves from a few hundred pounds to 200,000 lbs and beyond, set and leveled to spec. Our crews work across Billings and nearby Montana metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Billings's energy & ag base runs on machines that can't be muscled onto a truck — presses, machining centers, transformers, and production lines that have to come off the floor, through the door, and onto a trailer without a scratch. That's rigging: engineered lifts, air skates and gantries, and a crew that measures every doorway before anything moves.
Badass Logistics rigs it like an engineering problem and runs it like a road crew across Billings. We plan the pick, protect the floors, and set the load to spec — and when the load has to leave the building, the same team runs the move and the project freight, so it gets rigged out, delivered, and reset without a hand-off.
Rigging in Billings, MT is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Lockwood Industrial Park straddling the BNSF mainline east of the city and the refinery row along the Yellowstone River northeast of downtown. They are rail-served industrial and distribution buildings in the Lockwood district along the BNSF mainline, alongside the process and maintenance buildings of the refineries on the Yellowstone River — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's petroleum refining, sugar beet and food processing, agricultural equipment and grain handling, and oilfield and energy equipment services.
Billings, MT runs on energy & ag, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Billings's industrial base — energy & ag — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Turnaround windows, site safety rules, and heavy concentrated loads on process pads set the schedule. Typical rigging jobs for Billings customers include:
A Billings lift list usually runs to refinery process and turnaround equipment, sugar processing equipment, grain handling and storage equipment, and oilfield service equipment, and each one changes the rig: where it can be picked, what it cannot be set down on, and how much of it has to come apart to clear a doorway.
Setting and leveling machinery onto pads and foundations to spec across the Billings metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Billings metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Billings metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Billings metro.
Plenty of Billings jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-90, I-94 and I-15, 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.
Not every Billings rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF Railway, which took over the former Montana Rail Link lines in 2024 and runs sidings directly into the Lockwood Industrial Park. Add I-90, I-94 and I-15 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Billings plant can leave on a trailer or in a rail car — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial rigging job in Billings, MT 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 Billings jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Billings crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Billings? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Billings, MT and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Billings and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Laurel | Yellowstone County | 15 mi |
| Lockwood | Yellowstone County | 5 mi |
| Shepherd | Yellowstone County | 13 mi |
| Hardin | Big Horn County | 43 mi |
| Columbus | Stillwater County | 38 mi |
| Roundup | Musselshell County | 46 mi |
| Hysham | Treasure County | 70 mi |
| Worden | Yellowstone County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Billings services or get a quote.
Most Billings 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.
Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Billings as one accountable job.
Billings 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 Billings.
Billings CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Billings plants.
factory relocation in Billings →In Billings we also run machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Billings.
The same Billings crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, and crane and rigging services.
Specialty rigging in Billings: heavy lift rigging and transformer and generator rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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