When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Pittsburgh calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh, 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 Pittsburgh 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.
Pittsburgh's steel & Marcellus energy equipment 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 Pittsburgh. 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 Pittsburgh, PA is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Mon Valley steel corridor along the Monongahela River, the Neville Island industrial district, and the Findlay Township industrial area near Pittsburgh International Airport. They are older multi-storey brick mill buildings in the river valleys with narrow street access, steep grades and limited crane clearance — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's steel and metals fabrication, natural gas equipment manufacturing, and robotics and advanced manufacturing.
Plenty of Pittsburgh, PA work — steel & Marcellus energy equipment — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these PA and regional markets:
Pittsburgh's industrial base — steel & Marcellus energy equipment — 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 Pittsburgh customers include:
A Pittsburgh lift list usually runs to steel rolling and forming equipment, CNC machining centers, welding and fabrication equipment, and material handling cranes, 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 Pittsburgh metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Pittsburgh metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Pittsburgh metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Pittsburgh metro.
Plenty of Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX and Norfolk Southern, with Norfolk Southern's Mon Line running the length of the Monongahela River corridor. The Port of Pittsburgh spans more than 200 miles of navigable waterway across the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers, moving bulk cargo including steel, coal and chemicals by barge. Add I-76, I-80, I-81 and I-95 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh, 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 Pittsburgh jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Pittsburgh crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Pittsburgh? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Pittsburgh, PA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Pittsburgh and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Monroeville | Allegheny County | 11 mi |
| Bethel Park | Allegheny County | 8 mi |
| McKeesport | Allegheny County | 9 mi |
| Cranberry Township | Butler County | 18 mi |
| Robinson | Indiana County | 45 mi |
| Coraopolis | Allegheny County | 11 mi |
| Washington | Washington County | 23 mi |
| Greensburg | Westmoreland County | 26 mi |
| Canonsburg | Washington County | 16 mi |
| Mount Lebanon | Allegheny County | 7 mi |
| Wheeling, WV | Ohio County | 46 mi |
| Plum | Allegheny County | 14 mi |
| New Castle | Lawrence County | 43 mi |
| Allison Park | Allegheny County | 8 mi |
| Murrysville | Westmoreland County | 16 mi |
| West Mifflin | Allegheny County | 9 mi |
| Baldwin | Allegheny County | 7 mi |
| Weirton Heights, WV | Hancock County | 29 mi |
| Upper Saint Clair | Allegheny County | 9 mi |
| Weirton, WV | Hancock County | 31 mi |
| Steubenville, OH | Jefferson County | 34 mi |
| Wilkinsburg | Allegheny County | 6 mi |
| Franklin Park | Allegheny County | 11 mi |
| Indiana | Indiana County | 46 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Pittsburgh services, Industrial Rigging across Pennsylvania or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Pennsylvania — pick the nearest crew:
Most Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh as one accountable job.
Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Pittsburgh plants.
factory relocation in Pittsburgh →In Pittsburgh 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 Pittsburgh.
The same Pittsburgh crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Pittsburgh: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, and lab equipment moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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