When a machine is too heavy, too tall, or too tight to move safely, Wichita calls a rigger. Badass Logistics plans and executes precision lifts, machine setting, and heavy moves across the Wichita 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 Wichita, KS 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 Wichita and nearby Kansas metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Wichita's aviation manufacturing (Spirit, Textron, Bombardier) 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 Wichita. 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 Wichita, KS is mostly a building problem, and in this metro the buildings are in the aerospace manufacturing district surrounding Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, the Spirit AeroSystems campus, and the Textron Aviation (Cessna and Beechcraft) campus. They are large clear-span single-storey aircraft assembly and fabrication hangars built for full fuselage and wing sections — column spacing, door height and floor rating decide the gear long before the weight does. The lifts themselves follow the metro's aircraft fuselage and structures manufacturing, general aviation and business jet final assembly, aerospace tooling and precision machining, and aerospace composites fabrication.
Wichita, KS runs on aviation manufacturing (Spirit, Textron, Bombardier), and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same industrial rigging standards across the region:
Wichita's industrial base — aviation manufacturing (Spirit, Textron, Bombardier) — runs on equipment that doesn't move like freight. Large machine envelopes, documentation expectations, and secure-site access rules shape every move. Typical rigging jobs for Wichita customers include:
A Wichita lift list usually runs to fuselage and wing assembly jigs, CNC machining centers, autoclaves and composite curing equipment, sheet-metal forming presses, and riveting and structures assembly tooling, 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 Wichita metro.
Crane, gantry, and jack-and-slide lifts up to 200,000 lbs and beyond across the Wichita metro.
Presses, generators, transformers, and production-line machinery across the Wichita metro.
Skating machines through doorways, up mezzanines, and out of packed floors across the Wichita metro.
Plenty of Wichita 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-35 and I-135, 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 Wichita rig finishes on the floor it started on. Served by BNSF and Union Pacific. Add I-70, I-35 and I-135 for the road legs and a machine rigged out of a Wichita 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 Wichita, KS 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 Wichita jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Wichita crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Wichita? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Wichita, KS and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Industrial Rigging throughout Wichita and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Derby | Sedgwick County | 11 mi |
| Andover | Butler County | 11 mi |
| Haysville | Sedgwick County | 9 mi |
| Newton | Harvey County | 25 mi |
| Park City | Sedgwick County | 8 mi |
| Bel Aire | — | — |
| Goddard | Sedgwick County | 13 mi |
| Maize | Sedgwick County | 9 mi |
| Valley Center | Sedgwick County | 10 mi |
| Hutchinson | Reno County | 41 mi |
| El Dorado | Butler County | 27 mi |
| Winfield | Cowley County | 37 mi |
| Arkansas City | Cowley County | 47 mi |
| Augusta | Butler County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Wichita services or get a quote.
Most Wichita 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 Wichita as one accountable job.
Wichita 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 Wichita.
Wichita CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Wichita plants.
plant relocation in Wichita →In Wichita 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 Wichita.
The same Wichita crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, and crane and rigging services.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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