When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Cincinnati calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati, OH 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 Cincinnati and nearby Ohio metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Cincinnati's GE Aviation, machine tools & advanced manufacturing 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 Cincinnati. 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 Cincinnati, OH is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Queensgate rail and industrial district along the Mill Creek valley, the Sharonville industrial corridor north of downtown, and the Cincinnati Barge and Rail Terminal area on the Ohio River. They are a mix of older multi-storey brick machine-tool shops in the Mill Creek valley with narrow column bays and newer single-storey plants in the Sharonville corridor with clear-span floors — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's machine tool and industrial equipment manufacturing, chemical and plastics processing, consumer products manufacturing, and metal fabrication and stamping.
Plenty of Cincinnati, OH work — GE Aviation, machine tools & advanced manufacturing — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these OH and regional markets:
Cincinnati's industrial base — GE Aviation, machine tools & advanced manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Large machine envelopes, documentation expectations, and secure-site access rules shape every move. Typical rigging jobs for Cincinnati customers include:
A Cincinnati lift list usually runs to lathes and CNC machining centers, metal stamping presses, injection molding machines, and material-handling and conveying 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 Cincinnati metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Cincinnati metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Cincinnati metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Cincinnati metro.
Plenty of Cincinnati jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-70, I-71, I-75 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.
Not every Cincinnati rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX, Norfolk Southern and Canadian National, with CSX operating the Queensgate Intermodal Terminal and Norfolk Southern serving the Gest Street and Sharonville intermodal facilities. The Cincinnati Barge and Rail Terminal on the Ohio River handles bulk transloading between barge, rail and truck. Add I-70, I-71, I-75 and I-90 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Cincinnati plant can leave on a trailer, in a rail car, or over water — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial rigging job in Cincinnati, OH 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 Cincinnati jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Cincinnati crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Cincinnati? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Cincinnati, OH and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Cincinnati and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Norwood | Hamilton County | 4 mi |
| Blue Ash | Hamilton County | 10 mi |
| Sharonville | Hamilton County | 11 mi |
| Fairfield | Butler County | 15 mi |
| Hamilton | Butler County | 19 mi |
| Mason | Warren County | 20 mi |
| Covington, KY | Kenton County | 3 mi |
| Florence, IN | Switzerland County | 32 mi |
| West Chester | Tuscarawas County | 185 mi |
| Dayton | Montgomery County | 47 mi |
| Kettering | Montgomery County | 43 mi |
| Middletown | Butler County | 28 mi |
| Beavercreek | Greene County | 47 mi |
| Florence, KY | Boone County | 11 mi |
| Independence, KY | Kenton County | 13 mi |
| Xenia | Greene County | 50 mi |
| Riverside | Montgomery County | 50 mi |
| Trotwood | Montgomery County | 48 mi |
| Centerville | Montgomery County | 40 mi |
| Oxford | Butler County | 29 mi |
| Lebanon | Warren County | 27 mi |
| Miamisburg | Montgomery County | 38 mi |
| White Oak | Hamilton County | 8 mi |
| Erlanger, KY | Kenton County | 9 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Cincinnati services, Industrial Rigging across Ohio or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Ohio — pick the nearest crew:
Most Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati as one accountable job.
Cincinnati machinery moving company →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Cincinnati.
Cincinnati CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Cincinnati plants.
plant relocation in Cincinnati →In Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati.
The same Cincinnati crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, and crane and rigging services.
Specialty rigging in Cincinnati: heavy lift rigging and printing press moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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