When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, St. Louis calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the St. Louis 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 St. Louis, MO 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 St. Louis and nearby Missouri metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
St. Louis's manufacturing & Mississippi barge corridor 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 St. Louis. 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 St. Louis, MO is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the Earth City Industrial area near the Missouri River, America's Central Port and River's Edge Business Park in Granite City, Illinois, the Kelsey Business & Technology Park, and the St. Louis riverfront port district along the Mississippi. They are large single-storey aerospace and automotive assembly plants alongside older multi-storey brick industrial buildings near the riverfront with tighter dock access — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's aerospace and defense manufacturing, automotive assembly plants, brewing and food and beverage processing, chemical and agri-science manufacturing, and stainless steel process equipment fabrication.
St. Louis, MO runs on manufacturing & Mississippi barge corridor, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
St. Louis's industrial base — manufacturing & Mississippi barge corridor — 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 St. Louis customers include:
A St. Louis lift list usually runs to aircraft assembly jigs and tooling, stamping presses, brewing and packaging line equipment, chemical process vessels, 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 St. Louis metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the St. Louis metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the St. Louis metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the St. Louis metro.
Plenty of St. Louis jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-70, I-44, I-35 and I-29, 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 St. Louis rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, CSX, Canadian National and CPKC (formerly Kansas City Southern), with the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis switching the terminal district. St. Louis sits at the confluence of the Mississippi, Missouri and Illinois rivers and hosts the nation's second-largest inland port by tonnage, with barge terminals along the riverfront and at America's Central Port in Granite City, Illinois. Add I-70, I-44, I-35 and I-29 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a St. Louis 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 St. Louis, MO 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 St. Louis jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same St. Louis crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of St. Louis? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout St. Louis, MO and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout St. Louis and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| St. Charles, IL | Kane County | 248 mi |
| Chesterfield | Saint Louis County | 21 mi |
| Florissant | Saint Louis County | 13 mi |
| O'Fallon | Saint Charles County | 30 mi |
| Earth City | Saint Louis County | 18 mi |
| Hazelwood | Saint Louis County | 14 mi |
| Wentzville | Saint Charles County | 38 mi |
| Fenton | Saint Louis County | 15 mi |
| Granite City, IL | Madison County | 6 mi |
| Saint Charles | Saint Charles County | 19 mi |
| Saint Peters | Saint Charles County | 26 mi |
| Belleville, IL | Saint Clair County | 14 mi |
| Oakville | Saint Louis County | 12 mi |
| Wildwood | Saint Louis County | 25 mi |
| University City | Saint Louis County | 6 mi |
| Ballwin | Saint Louis County | 19 mi |
| Upper Alton, IL | Madison County | 20 mi |
| O'Fallon, IL | Saint Clair County | 16 mi |
| Mehlville | Saint Louis County | 11 mi |
| Kirkwood | Saint Louis County | 12 mi |
| Maryland Heights | Saint Louis County | 14 mi |
| East Saint Louis, IL | Saint Clair County | 3 mi |
| Alton, IL | Madison County | 18 mi |
| Edwardsville, IL | Madison County | 18 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our St. Louis services, Industrial Rigging across Missouri or get a quote.
We run industrial rigging in metros across Missouri — pick the nearest crew:
Most St. Louis 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 St. Louis as one accountable job.
machinery moving in St. Louis →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in St. Louis.
CNC machine movers in St. Louis →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for St. Louis plants.
St. Louis plant & factory relocation →In St. Louis 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 St. Louis.
The same St. Louis crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in St. Louis: 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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