When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Indianapolis calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis, IN 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 Indianapolis and nearby Indiana metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Indianapolis's manufacturing & logistics core 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 Indianapolis. 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 Indianapolis, IN is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the CSX Avon Yard and I-70 West corridor through Plainfield and Avon, the Norfolk Southern Hawthorne Yard rail district, the Airport Cargo District near Indianapolis International Airport, and the I-465 South industrial corridor. They are large clear-span single-storey distribution and warehouse buildings concentrated along the I-70 West corridor and near the airport — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, automotive and diesel parts and components, aerospace and jet engine component manufacturing, and intermodal freight and warehouse distribution.
Plenty of Indianapolis, IN work — manufacturing & logistics core — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these IN and regional markets:
Indianapolis's industrial base — manufacturing & logistics core — 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 Indianapolis customers include:
A Indianapolis lift list usually runs to pharmaceutical production and packaging equipment, CNC machining centers, jet engine assembly and test equipment, and conveyor and sortation systems, 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 Indianapolis metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Indianapolis metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Indianapolis metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Indianapolis metro.
Plenty of Indianapolis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-65, I-70 and I-69, 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 Indianapolis rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with Canadian National also reaching the metro; CSX's Avon Yard and Norfolk Southern's Hawthorne Yard anchor the region's rail freight. Add I-65, I-70 and I-69 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis, IN 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 Indianapolis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Indianapolis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Indianapolis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Indianapolis, IN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Indianapolis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Carmel | Hamilton County | 15 mi |
| Fishers | Hamilton County | 15 mi |
| Greenwood | Johnson County | 11 mi |
| Plainfield | Hendricks County | 14 mi |
| Noblesville | Hamilton County | 21 mi |
| Whitestown | Boone County | 19 mi |
| Avon | Hendricks County | 13 mi |
| Franklin | Johnson County | 21 mi |
| Lebanon | Boone County | 25 mi |
| Anderson | Madison County | 34 mi |
| Bloomington | Monroe County | 46 mi |
| Kokomo | Howard County | 50 mi |
| Lawrence | Marion County | 9 mi |
| Columbus | Bartholomew County | 41 mi |
| Westfield | Hamilton County | 19 mi |
| Zionsville | Boone County | 14 mi |
| Brownsburg | Hendricks County | 14 mi |
| Greenfield | Hancock County | 21 mi |
| Fairfield Heights | Hendricks County | 13 mi |
| Shelbyville | Shelby County | 27 mi |
| New Castle | Henry County | 43 mi |
| Broad Ripple | Marion County | 7 mi |
| Frankfort | Clinton County | 40 mi |
| Crawfordsville | Montgomery County | 42 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Indianapolis services, Industrial Rigging across Indiana or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Indiana — pick the nearest crew:
Most Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Indianapolis →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Indianapolis.
machine tool movers in Indianapolis →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Indianapolis plants.
Indianapolis plant relocation →In Indianapolis 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 Indianapolis.
The same Indianapolis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Indianapolis: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC 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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