Lasers Only's CW 2000W Laser Cleaner: 35 Hours of Hired Blasting

Green Mountain Mobile Blasting publishes its rate card: $300 an hour to dry-blast metal, $75 an hour of travel, and a $500 minimum before the truck leaves Vermont.

A handheld fiber laser that takes the metal line off that card is $10,499.

That is 35 hours of hired blasting — or 21 callouts, which is the unit the card actually bills in.

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Harvest Right's Medium freeze dryer takes in about 650 pounds a year at one batch a week: $3.68 a pound, the costliest rung on its own ladder. https://readwildtech.com/posts/2026-09-19-harvest-right-medium-freeze-dryer-step-economics/

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