When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Columbus calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Columbus 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 Columbus, 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 Columbus 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.
Columbus's distribution & 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 Columbus. 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 Columbus, OH is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Rickenbacker Global Logistics Park south of the city, the Southeast industrial submarket along I-270 and US-33, and the Buckeye Yard rail-served industrial area. They are large clear-span speculative distribution buildings with high dock-door counts near Rickenbacker alongside older lower-clearance manufacturing buildings closer to the urban core — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's third-party logistics and distribution warehousing, food and beverage processing, plastics and rubber product manufacturing, and steel service centers and metal fabrication.
Plenty of Columbus, OH work — distribution & advanced manufacturing — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these OH and regional markets:
Columbus's industrial base — distribution & advanced manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Most work happens around live distribution and production operations that can't stop for the move. Typical rigging jobs for Columbus customers include:
A Columbus lift list usually runs to conveyor and sortation systems, forklifts and reach trucks, injection molding machines, extrusion lines, and packaging and palletizing 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 Columbus metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Columbus metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Columbus metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Columbus metro.
Plenty of Columbus 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 Columbus rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX, which operates Buckeye Yard, and Norfolk Southern, which runs the Rickenbacker Intermodal Terminal near Rickenbacker International Airport. Add I-70, I-71, I-75 and I-90 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Columbus 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 Columbus, 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 Columbus jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Columbus crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Columbus? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Columbus, OH and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Columbus and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Dublin | Franklin County | 11 mi |
| Westerville | Franklin County | 12 mi |
| Grove City | Franklin County | 7 mi |
| Reynoldsburg | Franklin County | 10 mi |
| Hilliard | Franklin County | 10 mi |
| Gahanna | Franklin County | 8 mi |
| Groveport | Franklin County | 8 mi |
| Marysville | Union County | 27 mi |
| Lancaster | Fairfield County | 27 mi |
| Newark | Licking County | 32 mi |
| Springfield | Clark County | 43 mi |
| Delaware | Delaware County | 24 mi |
| Marion | Marion County | 44 mi |
| Upper Arlington | Franklin County | 4 mi |
| Chillicothe | Ross County | 43 mi |
| Pickerington | Fairfield County | 14 mi |
| Whitehall | Franklin County | 6 mi |
| Mount Vernon | Knox County | 40 mi |
| Pataskala | Licking County | 17 mi |
| Worthington | Franklin County | 9 mi |
| Washington Court House | Fayette County | 38 mi |
| Circleville | Pickaway County | 25 mi |
| Bexley | Franklin County | 3 mi |
| Bellefontaine | Logan County | 49 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Columbus services, Industrial Rigging across Ohio or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Ohio — pick the nearest crew:
Most Columbus 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 Columbus as one accountable job.
Columbus 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 Columbus.
Columbus CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Columbus plants.
plant relocation in Columbus →In Columbus 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 Columbus.
The same Columbus crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Columbus: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and data center rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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