When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, San Antonio calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the San Antonio 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 San Antonio, TX 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 San Antonio and nearby Texas metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
San Antonio's manufacturing & Eagle Ford energy 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 San Antonio. 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 San Antonio, TX is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Port San Antonio campus and East Kelly Railport on the city's south side, the automotive assembly and stamping campus on the far south side, and the Interstate 10/Interstate 35 interchange industrial corridor. They are a mix of large clear-span automotive assembly and stamping buildings on the far south side and older single-storey hangar and shop buildings at the former Kelly Air Force Base now part of Port San Antonio — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's automotive assembly and stamping, automotive drivetrain and axle component manufacturing, aircraft maintenance and modification, and military depot-level maintenance and logistics.
Plenty of San Antonio, TX work — manufacturing & Eagle Ford energy — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same industrial rigging crews through these TX and regional markets:
San Antonio's industrial base — manufacturing & Eagle Ford energy — 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 San Antonio customers include:
A San Antonio lift list usually runs to stamping presses, vehicle assembly line robotics, aircraft engine and airframe overhaul equipment, CNC machining centers, and railcar transload and 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 San Antonio metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the San Antonio metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the San Antonio metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the San Antonio metro.
Plenty of San Antonio jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-10, I-20, I-35 and I-45, 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 San Antonio rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF Railway and Union Pacific, with direct rail switching into the East Kelly Railport at Port San Antonio from Union Pacific's South San Yard. Add I-10, I-20, I-35 and I-45 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a San Antonio 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 San Antonio, TX 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 San Antonio jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same San Antonio crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of San Antonio? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout San Antonio, TX and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout San Antonio and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| New Braunfels | Comal County | 29 mi |
| Schertz | Guadalupe County | 16 mi |
| Converse | Bexar County | 13 mi |
| Seguin | Guadalupe County | 33 mi |
| Boerne | Kendall County | 29 mi |
| Universal City | Bexar County | 15 mi |
| Cibolo | Guadalupe County | 19 mi |
| Floresville | Wilson County | 29 mi |
| Pleasanton | Atascosa County | 32 mi |
| San Marcos | Hays County | 46 mi |
| Canyon Lake | Comal County | 34 mi |
| Live Oak | Bexar County | 14 mi |
| Timberwood Park | Bexar County | 19 mi |
| Hondo | Medina County | 39 mi |
| Selma | Bexar County | 16 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our San Antonio services, Industrial Rigging across Texas or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Texas — pick the nearest crew:
Most San Antonio 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 San Antonio as one accountable job.
San Antonio 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 San Antonio.
San Antonio CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for San Antonio plants.
plant relocation in San Antonio →In San Antonio 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 San Antonio.
The same San Antonio crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in San Antonio: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, MRI and medical equipment rigging, lab equipment moving, and data center rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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