When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Richmond calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Richmond 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 Richmond, VA 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 Richmond and nearby Virginia metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Richmond's manufacturing & James River 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 Richmond. 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 Richmond, VA is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the James River chemical corridor, the Virginia Bio+Tech Park near VCU's Medical College of Virginia, the Petersburg pharmaceutical manufacturing cluster, and the Richmond Marine Terminal industrial district. They are a mix of large-footprint chemical process plants and tank farms along the James River and newer clean single-storey pharmaceutical manufacturing buildings around the Petersburg cluster — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's pharmaceutical and biotechnology manufacturing, chemical processing plants along the James River, tobacco processing and manufacturing, and distribution and warehousing near the I-95/I-64 interchange.
Richmond, VA runs on manufacturing & James River port, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Richmond's industrial base — manufacturing & James River 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 Richmond customers include:
A Richmond lift list usually runs to chemical process reactors and storage tanks, pharmaceutical manufacturing and packaging line equipment, tobacco processing machinery, and barge-to-rail bulk 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 Richmond metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Richmond metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Richmond metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Richmond metro.
Plenty of Richmond jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-95, I-64, I-81 and I-66, 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 Richmond rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by CSX, which controls rail access to the Richmond Marine Terminal and operates the Acca Yard classification hub, and by Norfolk Southern. The Richmond Marine Terminal on the James River is a Port of Virginia facility handling barge, rail and truck cargo, linked to the Hampton Roads ocean terminals by container-on-barge service. Add I-95, I-64, I-81 and I-66 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Richmond 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 Richmond, VA 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 Richmond jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Richmond crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Richmond? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Richmond, VA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Richmond and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Henrico | Mecklenburg County | 92 mi |
| Chesterfield | Chesterfield County | 13 mi |
| Petersburg | City of Petersburg County | 23 mi |
| Colonial Heights | City of Colonial Heights County | 20 mi |
| Mechanicsville | Hanover County | 6 mi |
| Midlothian | Chesterfield County | 11 mi |
| Glen Allen | Henrico County | 8 mi |
| Hopewell | City of Hopewell County | 20 mi |
| Ashland | Hanover County | 14 mi |
| Tuckahoe | Henrico County | 6 mi |
| Short Pump | Henrico County | 11 mi |
| Chester | Chesterfield County | 14 mi |
| Meadowbrook | Chesterfield County | 7 mi |
| Laurel | Henrico County | 7 mi |
| Bon Air | Chesterfield County | 6 mi |
| Highland Springs | Henrico County | 7 mi |
| Williamsburg | City of Williamsburg County | 46 mi |
| East Highland Park | Henrico County | 4 mi |
| Brandermill | Chesterfield County | 13 mi |
| Lakeside | Henrico County | 4 mi |
| Fort Lee | Prince George County | 22 mi |
| Wyndham | Henrico County | 13 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Richmond services, Industrial Rigging across Virginia or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Virginia — pick the nearest crew:
Most Richmond 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 Richmond as one accountable job.
Richmond 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 Richmond.
Richmond CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Richmond plants.
factory relocation in Richmond →In Richmond 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 Richmond.
The same Richmond crew also handles millwright services and machinery removal.
Specialty rigging in Richmond: chiller and HVAC rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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