When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Erie calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Erie 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 Erie, PA 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 Erie and nearby Pennsylvania metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Erie's GE Transportation & 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 Erie. 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 Erie, PA is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the locomotive manufacturing campus on the city's east side and the Port of Erie waterfront industrial district on Lake Erie. They are a mix of large clear-span locomotive assembly buildings on the city's east side and older multi-storey brick manufacturing buildings near the lakefront with tighter dock access — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's locomotive and heavy rail equipment manufacturing, plastics injection molding, metal fabrication and machine shop work, and marine fabrication and ship repair.
Plenty of Erie, PA work — GE Transportation & heavy manufacturing — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these PA and regional markets:
Erie's industrial base — GE Transportation & heavy 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 Erie customers include:
A Erie lift list usually runs to locomotive assembly and fabrication equipment, injection molding machines, overhead cranes for heavy rail component handling, CNC machining centers, and marine fabrication and ship repair 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 Erie metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Erie metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Erie metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Erie metro.
Plenty of Erie jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95, 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 Erie rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with CSX's former New York Central mainline running directly through the city and carrying substantial daily traffic. The Port of Erie on Lake Erie operates a full-service shipyard with the largest dry-dock and crane on the Great Lakes, plus deep-draft dock face for bulk and breakbulk cargo. Add I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Erie 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 Erie, PA 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 Erie jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Erie crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Erie? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Erie, PA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Erie and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Millcreek, MO | Madison County | 628 mi |
| Wesleyville | Erie County | 4 mi |
| Lawrence Park | Erie County | 4 mi |
| Harborcreek | Erie County | 7 mi |
| Fairview | Erie County | 11 mi |
| North East | Erie County | 14 mi |
| Girard | Erie County | 15 mi |
| Edinboro | Erie County | 18 mi |
| Waterford | Erie County | 14 mi |
| Jamestown, NY | Chautauqua County | 44 mi |
| Ashtabula, OH | Ashtabula County | 41 mi |
| Meadville | Crawford County | 34 mi |
| Conneaut, OH | Ashtabula County | 27 mi |
| Dunkirk, NY | Chautauqua County | 45 mi |
| Fredonia, NY | Chautauqua County | 44 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Erie services, Industrial Rigging across Pennsylvania or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Pennsylvania — pick the nearest crew:
Most Erie 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 Erie as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Erie →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Erie.
machine tool movers in Erie →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Erie plants.
Erie plant relocation →In Erie 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 Erie.
The same Erie 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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