When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Green Bay calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Green Bay 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 Green Bay, WI 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 Green Bay and nearby Wisconsin metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Green Bay's paper & packaging machinery 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 Green Bay. 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 Green Bay, WI is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Shipyard District along the west side of the Fox River, a legacy of the city's lumber, paper and maritime industries, the Fox River paper-mill corridor running through downtown and the west side, Grandview Industrial Park on the city's east side, and the Port of Green Bay terminal district at the mouth of the Fox River. They are early-1900s multi-building brick paper mill complexes along the Fox River expanded in phases through the 1950s, alongside newer high-clearance industrial buildings in Fox Valley parks built for food-processing and manufacturing tenants — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's pulp and paper manufacturing, corrugated packaging and paper converting, bulk-cargo terminal handling, and food and meat processing.
Green Bay, WI runs on paper & packaging machinery, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Green Bay's industrial base — paper & packaging machinery — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Long interconnected lines have to come apart and go back together in the right order and alignment. Typical rigging jobs for Green Bay customers include:
A Green Bay lift list usually runs to paper machines and pulpers, corrugating and converting lines, bulk-cargo conveyors and ship-loading equipment, and meat processing and cold-storage 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 Green Bay metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Green Bay metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Green Bay metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Green Bay metro.
Plenty of Green Bay jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-94, I-43 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 Green Bay rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by Canadian National, which reaches the Fox River terminal and mill district over former Wisconsin Central trackage. The Port of Green Bay sits at the westernmost point of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Fox River, moving dry-bulk cargo such as coal, limestone, salt and cement along with wood pulp and forest products for the paper industry. Add I-94, I-43 and I-90 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Green Bay 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 Green Bay, WI 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 Green Bay jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Green Bay crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Green Bay? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Green Bay, WI and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Green Bay and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| De Pere | Brown County | 5 mi |
| Ashwaubenon | Brown County | 4 mi |
| Bellevue | Brown County | 7 mi |
| Howard | Brown County | 4 mi |
| Allouez | Brown County | 3 mi |
| Suamico | Brown County | 8 mi |
| Hobart | Brown County | 7 mi |
| Pulaski | Brown County | 15 mi |
| Wrightstown | Brown County | 15 mi |
| Appleton | Outagamie County | 26 mi |
| Oshkosh | Winnebago County | 43 mi |
| Manitowoc | Manitowoc County | 35 mi |
| Neenah | Winnebago County | 32 mi |
| Menasha | Winnebago County | 30 mi |
| Kaukauna | Outagamie County | 21 mi |
| Two Rivers | Manitowoc County | 34 mi |
| Little Chute | Outagamie County | 22 mi |
| Marinette | Marinette County | 44 mi |
| Shawano | Shawano County | 34 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Green Bay services, Industrial Rigging across Wisconsin or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Wisconsin — pick the nearest crew:
Most Green Bay 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 Green Bay as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Green Bay →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Green Bay.
CNC machine movers in Green Bay →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Green Bay plants.
Green Bay plant & factory relocation →In Green Bay 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 Green Bay.
The same Green Bay crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Specialty rigging in Green Bay: printing press moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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