When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Memphis calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Memphis 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 Memphis, TN 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 Memphis and nearby Tennessee metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Memphis's America's distribution crossroads 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 Memphis. 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 Memphis, TN is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial Park on President's Island, the Memphis International Airport air-cargo corridor, and the President's Island Mississippi River industrial district. They are large single-storey clear-span distribution buildings around the airport corridor alongside older industrial buildings on President's Island built around barge and rail-served docks — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's distribution and air-cargo logistics, food and agricultural processing, chemical manufacturing, and agricultural equipment manufacturing.
Plenty of Memphis, TN work — America's distribution crossroads — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these TN and regional markets:
Memphis's industrial base — America's distribution crossroads — 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 Memphis customers include:
A Memphis lift list usually runs to material handling conveyors, palletizers and sortation equipment, food processing lines, and grain and bulk handling 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 Memphis metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Memphis metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Memphis metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Memphis metro.
Plenty of Memphis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75, 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 Memphis rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Canadian National, CSX and Norfolk Southern, making Memphis one of only a few US metros with five Class I railroads, with Canadian National operating its second-largest classification yard in the country here. The Port of Memphis on the Mississippi River at President's Island is one of the largest inland ports in the country, handling bulk grain, fertilizer and industrial cargo by barge. Add I-40, I-65, I-24 and I-75 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Memphis 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 Memphis, TN 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 Memphis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Memphis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Memphis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Memphis, TN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Memphis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Bartlett | Shelby County | 11 mi |
| Germantown | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Collierville | Shelby County | 23 mi |
| Southaven, MS | DeSoto County | 11 mi |
| Olive Branch, MS | DeSoto County | 18 mi |
| Millington | Shelby County | 16 mi |
| Horn Lake, MS | DeSoto County | 13 mi |
| West Memphis, AR | Crittenden County | 8 mi |
| Cordova | Shelby County | 15 mi |
| Ellendale | Shelby County | 14 mi |
| Hernando, MS | DeSoto County | 23 mi |
| Forrest City, AR | St. Francis County | 43 mi |
| Lakeland | Shelby County | 18 mi |
| Marion, AR | Crittenden County | 10 mi |
| Arlington | Shelby County | 24 mi |
| Atoka | Tipton County | 25 mi |
| Covington | Tipton County | 37 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Memphis services, Industrial Rigging across Tennessee or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Tennessee — pick the nearest crew:
Most Memphis 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 Memphis as one accountable job.
Memphis machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Memphis.
Memphis CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Memphis plants.
factory relocation in Memphis →In Memphis 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 Memphis.
The same Memphis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Memphis: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and data center rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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