When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Cedar Rapids calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids, IA 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 Cedar Rapids and nearby Iowa metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Cedar Rapids's manufacturing & food processing 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 Cedar Rapids. 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 Cedar Rapids, IA is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the riverfront corn wet-milling district along the Cedar River, the Rompot rail yard district on the city's southeast side, and the aerospace and electronics manufacturing campus on the northeast side. They are multi-storey grain-milling buildings downtown on the Cedar River alongside newer food-grade precast distribution buildings in logistics parks along the I-380 corridor — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's corn wet-milling and grain processing, aerospace avionics and electronics manufacturing, yeast and food-ingredient manufacturing, and industrial bioprocessing.
Cedar Rapids, IA runs on manufacturing & food processing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Cedar Rapids's industrial base — manufacturing & food processing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Sanitary handling, washdown areas, and short plant shutdown windows drive the plan. Typical rigging jobs for Cedar Rapids customers include:
A Cedar Rapids lift list usually runs to corn wet-milling and grain-processing equipment, avionics and electronics assembly equipment, food-ingredient processing tanks, and bioprocessing fermentation 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 Cedar Rapids metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Cedar Rapids metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Cedar Rapids metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Cedar Rapids metro.
Plenty of Cedar Rapids jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-80, I-35 and I-380, 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 Cedar Rapids rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by Union Pacific and Canadian National, which connect into the city's grain-processing and manufacturing plants through the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway (CRANDIC) short line. Add I-80, I-35 and I-380 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids, IA 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 Cedar Rapids jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Cedar Rapids crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Cedar Rapids? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Cedar Rapids, IA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Cedar Rapids and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Marion | Linn County | 3 mi |
| Hiawatha | Linn County | 3 mi |
| Robins | Linn County | 5 mi |
| Fairfax | Linn County | 9 mi |
| Ely | Linn County | 10 mi |
| Mount Vernon | Linn County | 13 mi |
| Center Point | Linn County | 15 mi |
| Palo | Linn County | 9 mi |
| Walford | Benton County | 13 mi |
| Iowa City | Johnson County | 25 mi |
| Waterloo | Black Hawk County | 49 mi |
| Coralville | Johnson County | 23 mi |
| North Liberty | Johnson County | 18 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Cedar Rapids services, Industrial Rigging across Iowa or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Iowa — pick the nearest crew:
Most Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids as one accountable job.
Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids.
Cedar Rapids CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Cedar Rapids plants.
factory relocation in Cedar Rapids →In Cedar Rapids 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 Cedar Rapids.
The same Cedar Rapids crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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