When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Philadelphia calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia, PA 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 Philadelphia and nearby Pennsylvania metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Philadelphia's port, refinery & 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 Philadelphia. 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 Philadelphia, PA is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Philadelphia Navy Yard redevelopment south of the city, the Tacony-Bridesburg-Kensington riverfront industrial belt, and PhilaPort's Southport terminal district. They are older multi-storey brick industrial buildings along the Kensington and Port Richmond riverfront with tight column spacing and small freight elevators, alongside newer single-storey buildings at the Navy Yard — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's pharmaceutical manufacturing, food processing, shipbuilding and marine fabrication, and chemical processing.
Plenty of Philadelphia, PA work — port, refinery & manufacturing — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these PA and regional markets:
Philadelphia's industrial base — port, refinery & manufacturing — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Turnaround windows, site safety rules, and heavy concentrated loads on process pads set the schedule. Typical rigging jobs for Philadelphia customers include:
A Philadelphia lift list usually runs to pharmaceutical process and packaging equipment, food processing lines, marine fabrication equipment, 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 Philadelphia metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Philadelphia metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Philadelphia metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Philadelphia metro.
Plenty of Philadelphia jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95, 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 Philadelphia rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with a CSX intermodal yard and Norfolk Southern trackage both adjoining PhilaPort's Delaware River terminals. PhilaPort on the Delaware River handles containerized, breakbulk and auto import-export cargo. Add I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia, PA 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 Philadelphia jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Philadelphia crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Philadelphia? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Philadelphia, PA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Philadelphia and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Camden, NJ | Camden County | 3 mi |
| Chester | Delaware County | 13 mi |
| Norristown | Montgomery County | 15 mi |
| King of Prussia | Montgomery County | 16 mi |
| Bensalem | Bucks County | 15 mi |
| Levittown | Bucks County | 23 mi |
| Trenton, NJ | Mercer County | 29 mi |
| Conshohocken | Montgomery County | 11 mi |
| Essington | Delaware County | 9 mi |
| Allentown | Lehigh County | 49 mi |
| Reading | Berks County | 48 mi |
| Bethlehem | Northampton County | 48 mi |
| Wilmington, DE | New Castle County | 25 mi |
| Cherry Hill, NJ | Camden County | 7 mi |
| Vineland, NJ | Cumberland County | 33 mi |
| South Vineland, NJ | Cumberland County | 36 mi |
| Abington | Montgomery County | 12 mi |
| Jackson, NJ | Camden County | 20 mi |
| Havertown | Delaware County | 8 mi |
| North Brunswick, NJ | Middlesex County | 50 mi |
| Sicklerville, NJ | Camden County | 19 mi |
| Mount Laurel, NJ | Burlington County | 15 mi |
| Hillsborough, NJ | Somerset County | 46 mi |
| Sewell, NJ | Gloucester County | 13 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Philadelphia services, Industrial Rigging across Pennsylvania or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Pennsylvania — pick the nearest crew:
Most Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in Philadelphia →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Philadelphia.
machine tool movers in Philadelphia →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Philadelphia plants.
Philadelphia plant relocation →In Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia.
The same Philadelphia crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Philadelphia: 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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