Transformers and generators are dense, top-heavy, and set to tight pad layouts. Across the New Orleans 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 New Orleans, LA 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 New Orleans and nearby Louisiana 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 New Orleans, 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 New Orleans follows the grid: Entergy New Orleans, Chalmette Refinery, and Shell Norco. Demand has grown with the metro's data center build-out — Cogent 650 Poydras and EdgeConneX New Orleans — where every hall arrives with its own transformers, gensets, and switchgear. Plants in the metro's bulk grain and agricultural export handling, coffee import and roasting warehousing, large-scale aerospace structure fabrication, and steel and heavy-lift break-bulk cargo handling add standby power and unit substations on their own schedule.
New Orleans, LA runs on port project cargo & energy, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same transformer and generator rigging standards across the region:
Utilities, plants, campuses, and data centers across New Orleans 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 Michoud industrial corridor in New Orleans East, anchored by NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility, the Almonaster Avenue industrial corridor near the Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, the Chalmette refining district downriver in St. Bernard Parish, and the Napoleon Avenue container terminal district along the Mississippi River, where trailer access to the pad decides whether the unit is craned or jacked and skidded. Indoor sets are harder: New Orleans's buildings are a mix of century-old riverfront wharf warehouses with rail spurs and elevated dock platforms against flooding, and newer single-storey pre-engineered buildings in the eastern industrial corridor, 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 New Orleans metro.
Standby and prime gensets set in yards, enclosures, and on roofs across the New Orleans metro.
Switchgear lineups and motor control centers moved into electrical rooms across the New Orleans metro.
Units rigged into basement vaults and indoor substations across the New Orleans metro.
Plenty of New Orleans 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-12, I-20 and I-49, 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.
Large units for New Orleans often arrive by more than one mode. Served by BNSF, Canadian National, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Union Pacific and CPKC, switched through the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad. The Port of New Orleans handles bulk grain, coffee, steel and containerized cargo on the Mississippi River, including through its Napoleon Avenue Container Terminal. Wherever the unit comes off, the rigging from that point to the pad is one plan.
Every transformer & generator rigging job in New Orleans, LA 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 New Orleans jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same New Orleans crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of New Orleans? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout New Orleans, LA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
Transformer & Generator Rigging throughout New Orleans and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Metairie | Jefferson Parish County | 5 mi |
| Kenner | Jefferson Parish County | 10 mi |
| Gretna | Jefferson Parish County | 3 mi |
| Marrero | Jefferson Parish County | 4 mi |
| Chalmette | Saint Bernard Parish County | 7 mi |
| Harvey | Jefferson Parish County | 4 mi |
| Slidell | Saint Tammany Parish County | 28 mi |
| LaPlace, IL | Piatt County | 685 mi |
| Houma | Terrebonne Parish County | 46 mi |
| Boutte | Saint Charles Parish County | 19 mi |
| Laplace | Saint John the Baptist Parish County | 26 mi |
| Terrytown | Jefferson Parish County | 4 mi |
| Hammond | Tangipahoa Parish County | 45 mi |
| Bayou Cane | Terrebonne Parish County | 47 mi |
| Estelle | Jefferson Parish County | 8 mi |
| Thibodaux | Lafourche Parish County | 46 mi |
| Bayou Boeuf | Lafourche Parish County | 32 mi |
| Grand Bayou Mobile Home Park | Lafourche Parish County | 42 mi |
| River Ridge | Jefferson Parish County | 8 mi |
| Belle Chasse | Plaquemines Parish County | 9 mi |
| Mandeville | Saint Tammany Parish County | 28 mi |
| Luling | Saint Charles Parish County | 18 mi |
| Woodmere | Jefferson Parish County | 7 mi |
| Destrehan | Saint Charles Parish County | 17 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our New Orleans services or get a quote.
Most New Orleans 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 New Orleans crew.
rigging contractors in New Orleans →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across New Orleans as one accountable job.
industrial machinery movers in New Orleans →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in New Orleans.
machine tool movers in New Orleans →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for New Orleans plants.
New Orleans plant relocation →In New Orleans 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 New Orleans.
The same New Orleans crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in New Orleans: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, and MRI and medical equipment rigging.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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