Machine blasting, priced by the machine.
Every machine in the yard has a number on this page. Find yours, see what moves it, and call (914) 295-0821 or text photos for a same-day quote.
The machine list
Excavators
The most common call: booms, sticks, houses, and counterweights stripped to bare metal with glass, cylinders, and hoses masked. A mid-size machine runs $2,000 to $3,500 blasted and primed, most in a single yard day. Track frames add time when the salt has been at them.
Skid steers and compact machines
Mini excavators, stand-ons, and skid steers run $800 to $1,800 depending on size and rust depth. Compact machines are the best value in the yard: one setup, done by afternoon, and the fleet suddenly photographs like it was bought last year.
Dozers, loaders, and big iron
$3,000 to $6,000 for the heavy end, occasionally into a second day when pitting is deep or the machine is staying together during the blast. Blades, buckets, and ripper shanks come along in the same setup at attachment rates.
Buckets, forks, and attachments
$150 to $450 each, and the smartest money before any sale: a freshly blasted and painted bucket makes an entire listing photo. Attachments batch with a machine or with each other, sharing one mobilization.
Dump bodies and plows
Dump beds run $700 to $1,500 stripped of failed liner and rust; plow blades and frames $600 to $1,200. Salt equipment blasted in spring cures all summer and shrugs off its first brine load, which is the cheap way to own a plow.
Rebuild and weld prep
Machines headed for structural repair get blasted first so the welder sees every crack the paint was hiding. Bare metal tells the truth about a frame; that truth is worth having before the repair budget gets written.
The resale case, in plain math
Two identical machines go to auction. One wears its decade: faded paint, rust at every seam, a counterweight the color of the weather. The other was blasted and repainted the month before. Buyers bid the second machine harder every time, because paint is the only condition signal a photo carries, and honest fresh paint over properly blasted steel reads as a machine somebody maintained. The going wisdom among equipment sellers puts the refinish premium around $5,000 on a mid-size machine, against a blast-and-prime cost of $2,000 to $3,500. Do the attachments at the same time and the listing photographs like a dealer lot.
What same-day primer actually protects
Bare blasted steel is the cleanest surface a coating will ever see, and the most vulnerable: flash rust starts within hours in Northeast humidity. That is why the primer window is part of every job we run, not an option. The machine gets blasted to spec and primed before the rig packs up, so your painter sprays topcoat over sealed, bonded primer instead of over the beginnings of the problem you just paid to remove. It is the single discipline that decides whether a refinish lasts eight years or two.
Price your machine
Say the make, model or size class, what the coatings look like, and where the machine sits. Photos texted to (914) 295-0821 come back with same-day numbers off the published table.
Machinery questions, answered straight
Is it worth repainting an excavator before selling it?
Usually, yes. A documented blast and repaint typically adds around $5,000 to a machine’s resale value and shortens time-to-sale, because buyers read fresh, honest paint as evidence of a cared-for machine. Against a $2,000 to $3,500 blast-and-prime cost on a mid-size excavator, the refinish generally pays for itself and then some, especially with attachments done at the same time.
How long does blasting a machine take, and is it out of service?
Most mid-size machines are blasted and primed in one day at your yard: masking and containment in the morning, blast midday, primer in the afternoon. The machine sleeps at home primed and can return to light work while it waits for topcoat. Large dozers and heavily pitted machines occasionally run into a second day, and the estimate says so up front.
What gets protected on the machine during blasting?
Cab glass, cylinders and rods, hoses, electrical, breathers, and hydraulic couplers all get masked or wrapped as part of setup. Decals are preserved or noted for replacement in the plan. Protection time is built into the published per-machine ranges rather than billed as a surprise.
Do you paint the machine too, or just blast and prime?
Either. Every job includes primer the same day, because bare steel starts flash rusting within hours. From there, some owners take the machine to their own paint shop for the finish color, and others have us carry the job through topcoat. The quote states which path it covers so nothing is assumed.
Mount Vernon Sandblasting works machines across the whole service area; the densest yards are in Yonkers and the Elmsford corridor. The full price table lives on the cost page, and everything else starts at the homepage.