Transformers and generators are dense, top-heavy, and set to tight pad layouts. Across the Dallas metro we jack them off the trailer, skid or crane them onto the pad, and set them on the anchors — so the electrical contractor gets the unit where the drawings put it.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides transformer & generator rigging in Dallas, TX and the surrounding metro. We rig, jack, skid, and set transformers, generator sets, and switchgear onto pads, into vaults, and into electrical rooms — with impact recording where the manufacturer requires it. Our crews work across Dallas 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.
A large power transformer can weigh more than everything else on the site combined, and it is built to sit still. Tilting it past its limit, dropping it on a corner, or skidding it across a pad that wasn't level can damage the core and windings in ways that only show up at energization. Around Dallas, that is why the rigging is planned around the manufacturer's lift points, tilt limits, and impact requirements before it is planned around the crane.
Badass Logistics sets pad-mount and substation transformers, standby and prime generator sets, and switchgear lineups. Many of these jobs don't use a crane at all: the unit is jacked off the trailer onto cribbing and skidded onto the pad. Electrical disconnection, oil handling, and testing stay with your electrical contractor and the manufacturer. How to move a transformer into a building →
Transformer and generator work in Dallas follows the grid: Oncor Electric Delivery, Vistra Corp HQ (Irving), and Atmos Energy HQ. Demand has grown with the metro's data center build-out — QTS Irving and Equinix Dallas Infomart — where every hall arrives with its own transformers, gensets, and switchgear. Plants in the metro's electronics and telecom equipment manufacturing, aerospace component manufacturing, distribution and fulfillment logistics, and food and beverage processing add standby power and unit substations on their own schedule.
Plenty of Dallas, TX work — manufacturing & distribution, DFW freight corridor — moves across state lines before it lands. We run the same transformer and generator rigging crews through these TX and regional markets:
Utilities, plants, campuses, and data centers across Dallas all run on equipment that has to land exactly where the drawings put it. The units we rig include:
Pad work here lands in the Great Southwest Industrial District spanning Arlington and Grand Prairie, the Alliance Logistics District anchored by BNSF's Alliance intermodal terminal in north Fort Worth, and the DFW Airport logistics corridor, where trailer access to the pad decides whether the unit is craned or jacked and skidded. Indoor sets are harder: Dallas's buildings are large single-storey clear-span distribution and light-assembly buildings concentrated around Alliance and the Great Southwest District, built for dock-high trailer loading rather than heavy floor loads, and a unit headed for an electrical room is planned around every door on the way.
Pad-mount and substation transformers jacked, skidded, or craned onto pads across the Dallas metro.
Standby and prime gensets set in yards, enclosures, and on roofs across the Dallas metro.
Switchgear lineups and motor control centers moved into electrical rooms across the Dallas metro.
Units rigged into basement vaults and indoor substations across the Dallas metro.
Plenty of Dallas 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.
Every transformer & generator rigging job in Dallas, 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 Dallas jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Dallas crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Dallas? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Dallas, TX and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Transformer & Generator Rigging throughout Dallas and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Fort Worth | Tarrant County | 30 mi |
| Arlington | Tarrant County | 18 mi |
| Irving | Dallas County | 9 mi |
| Garland | Dallas County | 13 mi |
| Grand Prairie | Dallas County | 11 mi |
| Mesquite | Dallas County | 12 mi |
| Carrollton | Dallas County | 13 mi |
| Richardson | Dallas County | 12 mi |
| Denton | Denton County | 35 mi |
| Frisco | Collin County | 25 mi |
| Grapevine | Tarrant County | 19 mi |
| Plano | Collin County | 18 mi |
| McKinney | Collin County | 31 mi |
| Lewisville | Denton County | 21 mi |
| Allen | Collin County | 24 mi |
| Flower Mound | Denton County | 23 mi |
| North Richland Hills | Tarrant County | 25 mi |
| Celina | Collin County | 37 mi |
| Mansfield | Tarrant County | 25 mi |
| Rowlett | Dallas County | 16 mi |
| Euless | Tarrant County | 16 mi |
| DeSoto | Dallas County | 14 mi |
| The Trails of Frisco | Collin County | 26 mi |
| Bedford | Tarrant County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Dallas services, Transformer & Generator Rigging across Texas or get a quote.
We run transformer & generator rigging in metros across Texas — pick the nearest crew:
Most Dallas 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.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Dallas crew.
Dallas riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Dallas as one accountable job.
Dallas 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 Dallas.
Dallas CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Dallas plants.
plant relocation in Dallas →In Dallas we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Dallas.
The same Dallas crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Dallas: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC 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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