When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Lexington calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Lexington 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 Lexington, KY 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 Lexington and nearby Kentucky metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Lexington's Toyota & automotive 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 Lexington. 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 Lexington, KY is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Bluegrass region's automotive supplier belt around Georgetown and the industrial area surrounding Blue Grass Airport. They are large single-storey automotive assembly and supplier plants with clear-span production floors, typical of buildings built for continuous vehicle-line manufacturing — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's automotive assembly and Tier 1/2/3 parts supply, material-handling equipment manufacturing, aircraft component repair and overhaul, and precision metal fabrication.
Lexington, KY runs on Toyota & automotive manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Lexington's industrial base — Toyota & automotive manufacturing — 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 Lexington customers include:
A Lexington lift list usually runs to automotive stamping presses, robotic weld cells, CNC machining centers, and forklifts and lift trucks, 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 Lexington metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Lexington metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Lexington metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Lexington metro.
Plenty of Lexington 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-64, I-75 and I-71, 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 Lexington rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by Norfolk Southern, with the regional R.J. Corman Central Kentucky Lines handling local switching and interchange in the metro. Add I-65, I-64, I-75 and I-71 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Lexington 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 Lexington, KY 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 Lexington jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Lexington crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Lexington? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Lexington, KY and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Lexington and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Georgetown | Scott County | 16 mi |
| Nicholasville | Jessamine County | 9 mi |
| Richmond | Madison County | 19 mi |
| Winchester | Clark County | 16 mi |
| Versailles | Woodford County | 14 mi |
| Frankfort | Franklin County | 26 mi |
| Paris | Bourbon County | 20 mi |
| Berea | Madison County | 31 mi |
| Wilmore | Jessamine County | 13 mi |
| Lexington-Fayette | Fayette County | 4 mi |
| Danville | Boyle County | 29 mi |
| Shelbyville | Shelby County | 43 mi |
| Lawrenceburg | Anderson County | 23 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Lexington services, Industrial Rigging across Kentucky or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Kentucky — pick the nearest crew:
Most Lexington 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 Lexington as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Lexington →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Lexington.
CNC machine movers in Lexington →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Lexington plants.
Lexington plant & factory relocation →In Lexington 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 Lexington.
The same Lexington 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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