When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Lansing calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Lansing 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 Lansing, 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 Lansing 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.
Lansing's GM automotive assembly 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 Lansing. 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 Lansing, MI is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the GM Lansing Grand River Assembly complex near downtown, the GM Lansing Delta Township Assembly campus, and the CSX Lansing Ensel Yard rail corridor. They are large single-storey clear-span final-assembly plants at the GM complexes, alongside smaller multi-storey brick shops from the city's early automotive era — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's automotive final assembly, metal stamping plants, tool-and-die shops, and automotive parts supplier plants.
Plenty of Lansing, MI work — GM automotive assembly — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these MI and regional markets:
Lansing's industrial base — GM automotive assembly — 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 Lansing customers include:
A Lansing lift list usually runs to robotic weld cells, stamping presses, vehicle body framing systems, paint-line conveyors, and CNC machining centers, 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 Lansing metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Lansing metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Lansing metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Lansing metro.
Plenty of Lansing 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 Lansing rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX, whose east-west main line runs through the Lansing Ensel Yard connecting Detroit to Grand Rapids and on into Indiana. Add I-75, I-94 and I-96 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Lansing 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 Lansing, 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 Lansing jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Lansing crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Lansing? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Lansing, MI and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Lansing and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| East Lansing | Ingham County | 4 mi |
| Okemos | Ingham County | 7 mi |
| Holt | Ingham County | 7 mi |
| Grand Ledge | Eaton County | 10 mi |
| Delta Township | — | — |
| Mason | Ingham County | 12 mi |
| Charlotte | Eaton County | 18 mi |
| DeWitt | Clinton County | 8 mi |
| Williamston | Ingham County | 14 mi |
| Flint | Genesee County | 48 mi |
| Battle Creek | Calhoun County | 43 mi |
| Jackson | Jackson County | 35 mi |
| Forest Hills | Kent County | 50 mi |
| Waverly | Eaton County | 3 mi |
| Haslett | Ingham County | 8 mi |
| Owosso | Shiawassee County | 27 mi |
| South Lyon | Oakland County | 50 mi |
| Fenton | Genesee County | 43 mi |
| Ionia | Ionia County | 32 mi |
| Howell | Livingston County | 33 mi |
| Alma | Gratiot County | 45 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Lansing services, Industrial Rigging across Michigan or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Michigan — pick the nearest crew:
Most Lansing 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 Lansing as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Lansing →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Lansing.
machine tool movers in Lansing →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Lansing plants.
Lansing plant relocation →In Lansing 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 Lansing.
The same Lansing crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, and machinery loading and unloading.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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