Transformers and generators are dense, top-heavy, and set to tight pad layouts. Across the San Antonio 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 San Antonio, 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 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.
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 San Antonio, 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 San Antonio follows the grid: CPS Energy, Calaveras Power Station, and Valero Energy HQ. Demand has grown with the metro's data center build-out — Microsoft San Antonio (Westover Hills) and CyrusOne San Antonio — where every hall arrives with its own transformers, gensets, and switchgear. Plants in the metro's automotive assembly and stamping, automotive drivetrain and axle component manufacturing, aircraft maintenance and modification, and military depot-level maintenance and logistics add standby power and unit substations on their own schedule.
Plenty of San Antonio, TX work — manufacturing & Eagle Ford energy — 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 San Antonio 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 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, where trailer access to the pad decides whether the unit is craned or jacked and skidded. Indoor sets are harder: San Antonio's buildings 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, 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 San Antonio metro.
Standby and prime gensets set in yards, enclosures, and on roofs across the San Antonio metro.
Switchgear lineups and motor control centers moved into electrical rooms across the San Antonio metro.
Units rigged into basement vaults and indoor substations 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.
Every transformer & generator 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.
Transformer & Generator 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, Transformer & Generator Rigging across Texas or get a quote.
We run transformer & generator 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.
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 San Antonio crew.
San Antonio riggers →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 riggers, 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, 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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