When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Denver calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Denver 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 Denver, 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 Denver 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.
Denver's energy & construction equipment 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 Denver. 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 Denver, CO is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Waterton Canyon aerospace campus in Jefferson County, the Centennial Airport aerospace corridor in Arapahoe County, the Commerce City refining and rail district north of downtown, and the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea industrial corridor along the South Platte River. They are a mix of century-old brick and heavy-timber industrial buildings in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea corridor with rail spurs and narrow bays, and newer clear-span distribution buildings along the I-70 and I-76 corridors — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's aerospace and satellite manufacturing, craft brewing and beverage production, petroleum refining, and food processing and cold storage distribution.
Denver, CO runs on energy & construction equipment, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Denver's industrial base — energy & construction equipment — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Turnaround windows, site safety rules, and heavy concentrated loads on process pads set the schedule. Typical rigging jobs for Denver customers include:
A Denver lift list usually runs to satellite and spacecraft assembly tooling, brewing and fermentation vessels, refinery process equipment, and cold storage and food processing machinery, 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 Denver metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Denver metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Denver metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Denver metro.
Plenty of Denver 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 Denver rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF and Union Pacific, each operating an intermodal yard in the metro — BNSF's 31st Street Yard and Union Pacific's North Yard. Add I-25, I-70 and I-76 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Denver 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 Denver, 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 Denver jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Denver crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Denver? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Denver, CO and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Denver and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Aurora | Adams County | 8 mi |
| Lakewood | Jefferson County | 6 mi |
| Commerce City | Adams County | 6 mi |
| Thornton | Adams County | 9 mi |
| Westminster | Adams County | 7 mi |
| Arvada | Jefferson County | 7 mi |
| Centennial | Arapahoe County | 13 mi |
| Brighton | Adams County | 19 mi |
| Golden | Jefferson County | 13 mi |
| Boulder | Boulder County | 24 mi |
| Greeley | Weld County | 50 mi |
| Highlands Ranch | Douglas County | 13 mi |
| Longmont | Boulder County | 30 mi |
| Loveland | Larimer County | 46 mi |
| Broomfield | Broomfield County | 14 mi |
| Castle Rock | Douglas County | 26 mi |
| Parker | Douglas County | 19 mi |
| Littleton | Arapahoe County | 9 mi |
| Northglenn | Adams County | 10 mi |
| Dakota Ridge | Jefferson County | 12 mi |
| Englewood | Arapahoe County | 6 mi |
| Ken Caryl | Jefferson County | 13 mi |
| Wheat Ridge | Jefferson County | 5 mi |
| Lafayette | Boulder County | 18 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Denver services, Industrial Rigging across Colorado or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Colorado — pick the nearest crew:
Most Denver 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 Denver as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Denver →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Denver.
CNC machine movers in Denver →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Denver plants.
Denver plant & factory relocation →In Denver 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 Denver.
The same Denver crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Denver: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator 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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