When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Cleveland calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Cleveland 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 Cleveland, 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 Cleveland 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.
Cleveland's steel, automotive & heavy 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 Cleveland. 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 Cleveland, OH is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Cuyahoga Valley industrial flats along the river, the Warehouse District near the Lake Erie waterfront, the Midtown Cleveland industrial corridor along Euclid Avenue, and the Brooklyn/Steelyard industrial area south of downtown. They are century-old multi-storey brick mill buildings with tight column spacing in the Flats alongside newer clear-span steel plants further from the river, both constrained by narrow valley access roads and rail-adjacent loading — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's steel and metals processing, fabricated metal and forging shops, polymer and coatings manufacturing, and industrial machinery and pump manufacturing.
Plenty of Cleveland, OH work — steel, automotive & heavy manufacturing — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these OH and regional markets:
Cleveland's industrial base — steel, automotive & heavy manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Press pits, heavy die weights, and short retooling windows during model changeovers decide how these moves are planned. Typical rigging jobs for Cleveland customers include:
A Cleveland lift list usually runs to overhead traveling cranes, electric arc furnaces and rolling mill stands, forging presses, CNC machining centers, and industrial pumps and compressors, 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 Cleveland metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Cleveland metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Cleveland metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Cleveland metro.
Plenty of Cleveland 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 Cleveland rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with on-dock switching in the Cuyahoga Valley flats handled by the Cleveland Commercial Railroad and the Flats Industrial Railroad. The Port of Cleveland on the Cuyahoga River and Lake Erie handles bulk and breakbulk cargo on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system. Add I-70, I-71, I-75 and I-90 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Cleveland 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 Cleveland, 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 Cleveland jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Cleveland crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Cleveland? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Cleveland, OH and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Cleveland and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Parma | Cuyahoga County | 7 mi |
| Akron | Summit County | 30 mi |
| Lorain | Lorain County | 25 mi |
| Elyria | Lorain County | 23 mi |
| Euclid | Cuyahoga County | 11 mi |
| Mentor | Lake County | 22 mi |
| Strongsville | Cuyahoga County | 15 mi |
| Lakewood | Cuyahoga County | 6 mi |
| Solon | Cuyahoga County | 15 mi |
| Canton | Stark County | 51 mi |
| Cuyahoga Falls | Summit County | 28 mi |
| Cleveland Heights | Cuyahoga County | 7 mi |
| Warren | Trumbull County | 49 mi |
| Stow | Summit County | 27 mi |
| Brunswick | Medina County | 20 mi |
| Collinwood | Cuyahoga County | 8 mi |
| North Ridgeville | Lorain County | 18 mi |
| Westlake | Cuyahoga County | 12 mi |
| Massillon | Stark County | 49 mi |
| North Olmsted | Cuyahoga County | 13 mi |
| North Royalton | Cuyahoga County | 13 mi |
| Kent | Portage County | 30 mi |
| Garfield Heights | Cuyahoga County | 7 mi |
| Shaker Heights | Cuyahoga County | 8 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Cleveland services, Industrial Rigging across Ohio or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Ohio — pick the nearest crew:
Most Cleveland 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 Cleveland as one accountable job.
Cleveland 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 Cleveland.
Cleveland CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Cleveland plants.
factory relocation in Cleveland →In Cleveland 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 Cleveland.
The same Cleveland crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Cleveland: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, 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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