Equipment and oilfield blasting, done where the iron works.
Machines earn their rust in this part of the country, and sooner or later the paint stops hiding it. Bossier Sandblasting strips construction fleets, oilfield iron, trailers, and farm steel wet and on site, at published rates, with the inhibitor coat on before the fresh surface can bloom.
Machines and their attachments
A full-machine strip for repaint or resale runs $1,400 to $2,500 on excavator and loader class equipment, and $900 to $1,600 on skid steers and compacts. Cab glass, cylinders, hoses, and electrical get masked during setup, because a strip is judged by what it did not touch. Attachments have their own economics worth knowing: a bucket, blade, or set of forks runs $250 to $600, and no other few hundred dollars changes how a machine presents as much. Yards that do the attachment collection in one visit get the bottom of that range, since the rig only mobilizes once.
Oilfield iron, on the pad or off it
Separators, treaters, and skid vessels run $900 to $2,500 prepped for recoat, and pump jack frames $700 to $1,800 per unit. The wet method is what makes this work possible on producing locations: no dust cloud drifts toward running equipment, so the pad keeps working while its iron gets stripped a few feet away. Operator paperwork arrives with the quote, the pumper sets the blast windows, and the old Caddo-Pine Island field prices best by the lease road, where one mobilization can cover several jacks in a line.
Trailers, fleets, and farm steel
Trailer frames and decks run $800 to $2,000 each, stripped in your yard while loading keeps moving, and dump bodies and fleet steel follow the same logic. Farm implements, disks, mowers, and their haul trailers get the identical published rates, best scheduled between seasons when a machine can sit for the day its refinish takes. Everything leaves inhibitor-coated, so the bare metal waits safely however long the paint takes to happen.
Masking is half the machine job
A machine strip gets judged by what did not get blasted. Before the nozzle opens, the cab glass gets boarded over and the cylinder rods wrapped, and everything vulnerable from hoses to electrical gets covered. Decals either survive under masking or get noted for replacement so nobody is surprised. All of that setup time already lives inside the published per-machine ranges. The wet stream is more forgiving than dry overspray, which behaves like mist rather than shrapnel, but the masking is what actually protects the expensive parts.
Batching is the yard owner’s lever
Mobilization is the fixed cost of mobile work. The yards around Greenwood and Keithville figured out long ago that a row of trailers done in one visit costs far less per trailer than the same row done one call at a time. When you send us a list, put the borderline pieces on it too. Once the rig is already in your yard, the marginal cost of one more bucket is small enough that the borderline usually stops being borderline.
Price your iron
Machine list and photos to (318) 666-4671. Numbers come back off the published sheet.
Equipment questions, answered straight
What does it cost to sandblast heavy equipment?
Attachments run $250 to $600 each around Bossier and Shreveport. Compact machines land between $900 and $1,600, and excavator or loader class machines between $1,400 and $2,500. Those figures include masking, containment, and the rust-inhibitor finish, because a strip without those is not finished. The published rate sheet carries every line, and a yard that batches its list pays less per piece.
Can you blast equipment where it sits instead of hauling it?
Yes, and that is the whole model. The rig is self-contained, so it works wherever the machine already sits, whether that is a yard, a pad, a farm, or a lease road. Wet suppression keeps grit off everything parked or running nearby, which is what makes in-place work neighborly. Skipping the trailer trip both ways is often worth more than the blast itself.
How is oilfield equipment handled differently?
The pad’s rules come first. We carry insurance certificates issued to the operator, sign in with the pumper, and let the pumper set the blast windows. Containment goes under the work, and because the method is wet there is no dust migrating toward live equipment to argue about. The unit comes out at whatever spec the coating system needs, protected with inhibitor until the paint crew shows up.
Does stripping equipment before resale actually pay?
On a machine that runs well but looks tired, it usually does. A strip and repaint in the $1,500 to $2,500 range tends to move a listing out of the rough-condition price bracket, and buyers can tell the difference between paint sprayed over rust and paint over real bare-metal prep. Even doing the attachments alone, for a few hundred dollars, changes how the photos read.
The method behind the work lives on the wet vs dry page, shop batch work on the fab-shop page, every rate on the published sheet, and it all starts at the homepage.