When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Mobile calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Mobile 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 Mobile, AL 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 Mobile and nearby Alabama metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Mobile's Airbus, shipbuilding & port 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 Mobile. 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 Mobile, AL is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley aerospace campus, home to Airbus U.S. Manufacturing and the Alabama State Docks port complex. They are large clear-span aerospace final-assembly hangars at Brookley alongside heavy-lift-rated port warehouses and steel terminal buildings — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's aerospace final assembly manufacturing, shipbuilding and ship repair, steel and metals handling, and port and terminal warehousing.
Plenty of Mobile, AL work — Airbus, shipbuilding & port — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these AL and regional markets:
Mobile's industrial base — Airbus, shipbuilding & port — 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 Mobile customers include:
A Mobile lift list usually runs to aircraft final assembly jigs and tooling, dry-dock and shipbuilding equipment, steel slab and coil handling equipment, and port cranes and heavy-lift material 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 Mobile metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Mobile metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Mobile metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Mobile metro.
Plenty of Mobile 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-20, I-10 and I-59, 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 Mobile rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Canadian National and CPKC, with the Terminal Railway Alabama State Docks switching the port district. The Port of Mobile on Mobile Bay is a full-service deepwater seaport handling containerized, breakbulk, steel and heavy-lift cargo, with Airbus fuselage sections transferred by barge from the port to the Brookley complex. Add I-65, I-20, I-10 and I-59 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Mobile 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 Mobile, AL 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 Mobile jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Mobile crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Mobile? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Mobile, AL and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Mobile and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Prichard | Mobile County | 4 mi |
| Saraland | Mobile County | 9 mi |
| Chickasaw | Mobile County | 5 mi |
| Theodore | Mobile County | 13 mi |
| Daphne | Baldwin County | 10 mi |
| Spanish Fort | Baldwin County | 8 mi |
| Tillmans Corner | Mobile County | 11 mi |
| Satsuma | Mobile County | 11 mi |
| Bay Minette | Baldwin County | 21 mi |
| Bellview, FL | Escambia County | 46 mi |
| Pascagoula, MS | Jackson County | 38 mi |
| West Pensacola, FL | Escambia County | 49 mi |
| Ensley, FL | Escambia County | 47 mi |
| Fairhope | Baldwin County | 15 mi |
| Gautier, MS | Jackson County | 40 mi |
| Foley | Baldwin County | 29 mi |
| Myrtle Grove, FL | Escambia County | 48 mi |
| Moss Point, MS | Jackson County | 35 mi |
| Gonzalez, FL | Escambia County | 45 mi |
| Gulf Shores | Baldwin County | 37 mi |
| Atmore | Escambia County | 40 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Mobile services, Industrial Rigging across Alabama or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Alabama — pick the nearest crew:
Most Mobile 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 Mobile as one accountable job.
Mobile machinery moving company →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Mobile.
Mobile CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Mobile plants.
plant relocation in Mobile →In Mobile 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 Mobile.
The same Mobile crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, and crane and rigging services.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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