When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Salt Lake City calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City and nearby Utah metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Salt Lake City's mining & industrial 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 Salt Lake City. 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 Salt Lake City, UT is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Redwood Road Industrial District, the Beck Street Industrial District, the Union Pacific-developed Pioneer Business Park and Centennial Business Park on the west side, and the Salt Lake City intermodal terminal district tied to the Utah Inland Port. They are a mix of older Union Pacific-era single-storey industrial buildings across the west-side rail districts alongside newer distribution buildings built around the inland port — 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, aerospace and precision-machined components, mining and mineral-processing equipment, and outdoor-gear and apparel manufacturing.
Salt Lake City, UT runs on mining & industrial, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Salt Lake City's industrial base — mining & industrial — 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 Salt Lake City customers include:
A Salt Lake City lift list usually runs to CNC machining centers, mining and mineral-processing equipment, cleanroom medical-device assembly lines, and packaging and sterilization 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 Salt Lake City metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Salt Lake City metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Salt Lake City metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Salt Lake City metro.
Plenty of Salt Lake City jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-15, I-80 and I-70, 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 Salt Lake City rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by Union Pacific and BNSF, both routing through Salt Lake City's west-side rail-served industrial districts and the Salt Lake City intermodal terminal. Add I-15, I-80 and I-70 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Salt Lake City plant can leave on a trailer or in a rail car — the rigging plan is built backwards from whichever it is.
Every industrial rigging job in Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Salt Lake City crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Salt Lake City? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Salt Lake City, UT and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Salt Lake City and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| West Valley City | Salt Lake County | 8 mi |
| Sandy | Salt Lake County | 12 mi |
| Ogden | Weber County | 32 mi |
| Provo | Utah County | 38 mi |
| Orem | Utah County | 34 mi |
| West Jordan | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Layton | Davis County | 21 mi |
| Tooele | Tooele County | 27 mi |
| Lehi | Utah County | 26 mi |
| Clearfield | Davis County | 25 mi |
| South Jordan | Salt Lake County | 14 mi |
| Millcreek | Salt Lake County | 5 mi |
| Taylorsville | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Murray | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Draper | Salt Lake County | 16 mi |
| Bountiful | Davis County | 9 mi |
| Riverton | Salt Lake County | 17 mi |
| Pleasant Grove | Utah County | 29 mi |
| Roy | Weber County | 29 mi |
| Spanish Fork | Utah County | 46 mi |
| Kearns | Salt Lake County | 9 mi |
| Cottonwood Heights | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Midvale | Salt Lake County | 10 mi |
| Springville | Utah County | 44 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Salt Lake City services, Industrial Rigging across Utah or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Utah — pick the nearest crew:
Most Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City as one accountable job.
Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Salt Lake City plants.
plant relocation in Salt Lake City →In Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
The same Salt Lake City crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Salt Lake City: 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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