KD Machinery buys and brokers production machinery. For this equipment the better route is almost always our auction side: KD Auctions runs whole-facility sales and liquidations, which is where this equipment reaches the buyers who want it.
Why sell your machine to KD Machinery
Construction equipment is bought on hours, attachments and how hard the last owner ran it, and almost none of that is visible in a photograph. An excavator with a fresh undercarriage and a machine that needs one look identical parked. That is also why this equipment sells best in front of a crowd rather than one buyer at a time: the people who bid on it can read a machine from the wear on the bucket and the state of the tracks, and they turn up expecting to inspect. A single dealer offer on a mixed fleet almost always prices the whole yard at the level of its weakest machine.
What we buy
Excavators, loaders, dozers, backhoes and skid steers, cranes and lifts, compaction and paving equipment, generators and light towers, attachments and buckets, and complete contractor fleets. Running, parked, or already stripped for parts.
What decides what a used machine is worth
- Hours, and whether the meter is original. On this equipment an unverifiable hour count is treated as the worst plausible number.
- Undercarriage and wear parts, which on tracked machines are a large share of what the machine is worth and the first thing a bidder checks.
- Attachments and buckets. They frequently sell for more alongside the machine they fit than they ever do on their own.
- Service history and any recent major work, especially engine, hydraulics and final drives.
- Whether it starts and moves under its own power on the day, which on used construction equipment is worth more than any description of it.
- Titles and ownership paperwork where the machine carries them, because a bidder will not chase a document after the fact.
How to sell a machine
Construction equipment is bought on inspection, so make it easy to inspect:
- Start every machine and film it moving, lifting and swinging.
- Photograph the hour meter, the undercarriage and the cutting edges close up.
- Wash it. On this equipment more than most, dirt reads as neglect and hides the condition a bidder is trying to price.
- List the attachments with each machine rather than in a separate pile.
- Gather whatever paperwork exists, including service records and titles.
Selling a machine: common questions
Some of the fleet runs and some does not. Does that ruin the sale?
No, and it is completely normal. Non-runners sell to buyers who want parts or who rebuild, and they turn up to the same sale. What costs money is describing a non-runner as though it might run, because that buyer stops trusting the rest of the listing. Say plainly which machines start and which do not.
Why an auction rather than a straight cash offer for the yard?
Because a mixed fleet has a wide spread of condition, and one buyer taking all of it has to price for the worst machine in the lot. In a sale each machine finds its own buyer, and the good ones are not dragged down by the tired ones. If you would rather have one number and be done, we will still make an offer.
The machines are spread across several job sites. Is that a problem?
It is workable and it happens often. It affects timing and transport cost rather than whether the sale happens. Tell us where everything is early, because moving equipment to one location is sometimes worth it and sometimes not, and that is a decision better made before anything is loaded.