How Machinery Is Valued
Working plant is valued on what the market will pay for it: make, model, year, hours, service history, attachments and current condition all count, and machines from the mainstream brands with documented servicing move fastest. If your machine runs and works, get the hour meter reading and the service records together before you call.
Non-working plant is valued on components plus metal. A dead machine still contains a recoverable engine or engine core, hydraulic pumps, motors and rams, final drives, transmissions, radiators, electronics, tracks or tyres, and a very substantial tonnage of steel. Final drives and hydraulic components in particular hold value well because rebuilders want them.
Attachments are frequently forgotten and frequently valuable. Buckets, rippers, hammers, augers, grabs, tilt hitches, forks and brooms should all be listed when you call, whether or not they belong to the machine you are selling.