Heavy equipment verification: excavators, dozers, loaders and cranes
An independent agent goes to the machine, on a job site, in a yard or on a farm, and records the serial plate, hour meter, undercarriage, attachments and overall condition. You get a sealed certificate a buyer or lender can check without making the trip.
Machines we document
- Excavators and mini excavators
- Dozers and crawler loaders
- Wheel loaders, backhoes and skid steers, wheeled or tracked
- Motor graders, scrapers and compactors
- Cranes, telehandlers and aerial lifts
- Dump trucks, water trucks and haul trucks
- Generators, compressors and other site equipment
Heavy equipment is a common target for listing fraud and title confusion because a single machine can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. A serial number read from the plate by an independent witness, with a photo of the plate and the hour meter, settles the first questions a buyer or lender asks.
On a typical excavator visit
- Serial plate and any stamped frame number photographed
- Hour meter photographed
- Tracks, rollers and sprockets photographed
- Boom, stick, bucket and couplers photographed
- Cab and controls photographed
- Standardized questions answered on camera
Basic or Expert?
| Basic | Expert | |
|---|---|---|
| Time on site | About 45 minutes | About 2 hours |
| Photos | Up to 20 | Up to 100 |
| Video walkarounds | – | Yes |
| Standardized questions | Ten | Up to fifty |
| Good fit | Skid steers, backhoes, loaders, mini excavators | Cranes, large excavators and dozers, specialized machines |
Fleets and yards
Contractors, rental yards and lenders often need several machines documented at once. Each machine can get its own certificate on the same visit, and loose attachments such as buckets, forks, hammers and grapples can be certified together as a Lot.
Companies with many assets can keep them under an organization account, grouped by account, so the office can see every verified machine in one place.
Before the agent arrives
Park the machine where the agent can walk all the way around it. Clean mud off the serial plate if you can. Have someone there who can start the machine if the hour meter needs power, and who can answer questions about its history.
Selling verified iron
Verified equipment can go straight into an IronMarket sealed bid sales event, where bidders see the verification details with the listing.
Common questions
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Get your equipment on record
Choose Basic, Expert or Lot and tell us where the asset is. A coordinator schedules a certified agent to it.
