When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Colorado Springs calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs, CO 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 Colorado Springs and nearby Colorado metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Colorado Springs's aerospace & defense 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 Colorado Springs. 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 Colorado Springs, CO is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Colorado Aerospace Business Center near the Colorado Springs Airport and Peterson Space Force Base and Peak Innovation Park near Schriever Space Force Base. They are concentrated in newer single-storey business parks built for aerospace, defense and semiconductor work rather than an older legacy industrial core — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's aerospace and defense systems manufacturing, space and satellite component manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing, and electronics and precision-instrument assembly.
Colorado Springs, CO runs on aerospace & defense, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Colorado Springs's industrial base — aerospace & defense — 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 Colorado Springs customers include:
A Colorado Springs lift list usually runs to precision CNC machining centers, cleanroom wafer-processing equipment, electronic test and calibration equipment, and precision assembly and inspection stations, 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 Colorado Springs metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Colorado Springs metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Colorado Springs metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Colorado Springs metro.
Plenty of Colorado Springs jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-25, I-70 and I-76, 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 Colorado Springs rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF and Union Pacific, which share the Colorado Joint Line running through the city as BNSF's Pikes Peak Subdivision and Union Pacific's Colorado Springs Subdivision. Add I-25, I-70 and I-76 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs, CO 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 Colorado Springs jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Colorado Springs crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Colorado Springs? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Colorado Springs, CO and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Colorado Springs and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Fountain | El Paso County | 12 mi |
| Monument | El Paso County | 18 mi |
| Manitou Springs | El Paso County | 6 mi |
| Security-Widefield | El Paso County | 8 mi |
| Falcon | El Paso County | 13 mi |
| Woodland Park | Teller County | 17 mi |
| Peyton | El Paso County | 23 mi |
| Cimarron Hills | — | — |
| Black Forest | El Paso County | 14 mi |
| Pueblo | Pueblo County | 42 mi |
| Castle Rock | Douglas County | 37 mi |
| Parker | Douglas County | 47 mi |
| Pueblo West | Pueblo County | 34 mi |
| Cañon City | Fremont County | 35 mi |
| Fort Carson | El Paso County | 7 mi |
| Lone Tree | Adams County | 50 mi |
| The Pinery | Douglas County | 43 mi |
| Castle Pines North | Park County | 44 mi |
| Roxborough Park | Douglas County | 46 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Colorado Springs services, Industrial Rigging across Colorado or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Colorado — pick the nearest crew:
Most Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Colorado Springs →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Colorado Springs.
CNC machine movers in Colorado Springs →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Colorado Springs plants.
Colorado Springs plant & factory relocation →In Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs.
The same Colorado Springs 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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