When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Detroit calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Detroit 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 Detroit, MI 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 Detroit and nearby Michigan metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Detroit's automotive stamping, tool-and-die, Tier-1/2 suppliers 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 Detroit. 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 Detroit, MI is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Milwaukee Junction industrial district near downtown, the I-94 industrial corridor through Warren and Roseville, the Rouge complex in Dearborn, and the Detroit Terminal Railroad district. They are a mix of older multi-storey brick shops with tight column spacing and larger mid-century single-storey stamping and assembly plants with clear-span bays — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's automotive stamping and body shops, tool-and-die and mold shops, Tier-1 and Tier-2 supplier plants, and steel service centers.
Plenty of Detroit, MI work — automotive stamping, tool-and-die, Tier-1/2 suppliers — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these MI and regional markets:
Detroit's industrial base — automotive stamping, tool-and-die, Tier-1/2 suppliers — 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 Detroit customers include:
A Detroit lift list usually runs to stamping presses, die handling equipment, CNC machining centers, and robotic weld cells, 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 Detroit metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Detroit metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Detroit metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Detroit metro.
Plenty of Detroit jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-75, I-94 and I-96, 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 Detroit rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with Conrail Shared Assets switching the Detroit terminal district. The Port of Detroit on the Detroit River handles bulk and break-bulk cargo on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system. Add I-75, I-94 and I-96 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Detroit 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 Detroit, MI 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 Detroit jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Detroit crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Detroit? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Detroit, MI and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Detroit and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Warren | Macomb County | 11 mi |
| Dearborn | Wayne County | 7 mi |
| Livonia | Wayne County | 16 mi |
| Sterling Heights | Macomb County | 17 mi |
| Troy | Oakland County | 20 mi |
| Romulus | Wayne County | 20 mi |
| Taylor | Wayne County | 13 mi |
| Pontiac | Oakland County | 25 mi |
| Southfield | Oakland County | 13 mi |
| Flint | Genesee County | 57 mi |
| Ann Arbor | Washtenaw County | 36 mi |
| Clinton Township | Macomb County | 19 mi |
| Canton | Wayne County | 22 mi |
| Westland | Wayne County | 18 mi |
| Farmington Hills | Oakland County | 20 mi |
| Waterford | Oakland County | 31 mi |
| Shelby | Macomb County | 24 mi |
| Rochester Hills | Oakland County | 23 mi |
| West Bloomfield Township | Oakland County | 24 mi |
| Saint Clair Shores | Macomb County | 14 mi |
| Royal Oak | Oakland County | 12 mi |
| Novi | Oakland County | 24 mi |
| Dearborn Heights | Wayne County | 12 mi |
| Redford | Wayne County | 13 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Detroit services, Industrial Rigging across Michigan or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Michigan — pick the nearest crew:
Most Detroit 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 Detroit as one accountable job.
Detroit 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 Detroit.
Detroit CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Detroit plants.
plant relocation in Detroit →In Detroit 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 Detroit.
The same Detroit crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Detroit: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, and lab equipment moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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