When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Minneapolis calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis, MN 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 Minneapolis and nearby Minnesota metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Minneapolis's Upper Midwest 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 Minneapolis. 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 Minneapolis, MN is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Medical Alley device-manufacturing cluster centered on Fridley, the Midway industrial district straddling Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the Mississippi riverfront milling and grain-processing district. They are a mix of postwar single-storey suburban plants in Fridley and Eagan with clear-span bays alongside older multi-storey brick mill buildings along the riverfront with narrow freight elevators and tight floor plates — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's medical device manufacturing and contract sterilization, grain milling and food processing, industrial electronics and controls, and outdoor power and turf equipment manufacturing.
Minneapolis, MN runs on Upper Midwest manufacturing, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Minneapolis's industrial base — Upper Midwest manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Keeping the rest of production running while machines move is usually the hardest part of the plan. Typical rigging jobs for Minneapolis customers include:
A Minneapolis lift list usually runs to cleanroom device-assembly lines, sterilization and packaging equipment, CNC machining centers, grain milling and conveying equipment, and stamping presses, 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 Minneapolis metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Minneapolis metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Minneapolis metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Minneapolis metro.
Plenty of Minneapolis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-35, I-90 and I-94, 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 Minneapolis rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Canadian Pacific Kansas City and Canadian National, with BNSF's Midway Terminal switching much of the metro's carload traffic. The Port of Minneapolis/St. Paul on the Mississippi River handles barge shipments of grain, aggregates and other bulk commodities. Add I-35, I-90 and I-94 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis, MN 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 Minneapolis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Minneapolis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Minneapolis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Minneapolis, MN and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Minneapolis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| St. Paul, AK | Aleutians West Census Area County | 3259 mi |
| Bloomington | Hennepin County | 10 mi |
| Brooklyn Park | Hennepin County | 9 mi |
| Plymouth | Hennepin County | 10 mi |
| Eagan | Dakota County | 13 mi |
| Maple Grove | Hennepin County | 11 mi |
| Eden Prairie | Hennepin County | 13 mi |
| Burnsville | Dakota County | 15 mi |
| Shakopee | Scott County | 18 mi |
| Rogers | Hennepin County | 20 mi |
| Saint Paul | Ramsey County | 9 mi |
| Woodbury | Washington County | 15 mi |
| West Coon Rapids | Hennepin County | 13 mi |
| Coon Rapids | Anoka County | 10 mi |
| Blaine | Anoka County | 13 mi |
| Lakeville | Dakota County | 23 mi |
| Minnetonka | Hennepin County | 13 mi |
| Apple Valley | Dakota County | 17 mi |
| Edina | Hennepin County | 8 mi |
| Minnetonka Mills | Hennepin County | 9 mi |
| Saint Louis Park | Hennepin County | 5 mi |
| Maplewood | Ramsey County | 13 mi |
| Richfield | Hennepin County | 7 mi |
| Cottage Grove | Washington County | 19 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Minneapolis services or get a quote.
Most Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis as one accountable job.
machinery moving in Minneapolis →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Minneapolis.
CNC machine movers in Minneapolis →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Minneapolis plants.
Minneapolis plant & factory relocation →In Minneapolis 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 Minneapolis.
The same Minneapolis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Minneapolis: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and printing press moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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