Brownsville and Harlingen Equipment Appraisal
Heavy equipment valuations for Brownsville, Harlingen and the port. Starting at $295.
Brownsville and Harlingen equipment appraisal is the certified valuation of heavy equipment kept in Cameron and Willacy counties, from the cranes and heavy-haul trucks working at the Port of Brownsville to the combines and cotton harvesters on the farms inland. The signer of every report is a Certified Machinery and Equipment Appraiser (CMEA). It is the document a lender, a court, an insurer or a buyer asks a Brownsville or Harlingen equipment appraiser for.
- One report can take in equipment at the port, in Harlingen and on a Willacy County farm.
- Desktop appraisals work from photos and records, so a crane can stay rigged on its job.
- If the reader of the report needs the equipment seen, someone inspects it in person.
- The standard behind each report is the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP), and a CMEA signs it.
- You see the fee and the delivery date in an email before you order.
- USPAP-compliant
- Signed by a CMEA
- Rated 5.0 on Google
How does an equipment appraisal in Brownsville or Harlingen begin?
1. Describe the equipment
The form first asks what the equipment is and how many pieces there are.
2. Choose how it is done
Pick a desktop appraisal or an on-site inspection and give the city. Then say when you need the report and where the quote should be sent.
3. Accept the quote and send records
After you accept, send photos showing every piece and its serial plate, plus inspection and service records. For a crane, add the boom and counterweight list.
What should an owner in Cameron County know first?
- The appraisal district is in San Benito
- Business equipment in Cameron County is on the roll of the Cameron Appraisal District, whose office is on Amistad Drive in San Benito. Texas sets April 15 as the deadline for a rendition, the yearly list of equipment a business files, and for asking for more time, and the district’s calendar shows it. Cameron Appraisal District
- Brownsville has its own federal court division
- Cameron and Willacy counties form the Brownsville Division of the Southern District of Texas. It sits at the Reynaldo G. Garza-Filemon B. Vela United States Courthouse on East Harrison Street.
- The SBA office is in Harlingen
- The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) lists Cameron and Willacy counties under its Lower Rio Grande Valley District Office, which is on East Tyler Avenue in Harlingen.
- Heavy loads between the bridge and the port
- The Port of Brownsville issues oversize and overweight permits for trucks on the route between the Veterans International Bridge and the port. The most a permit allows is 125,000 pounds or Mexico’s legal weight limit, whichever is less. Trucks and trailers built for loads that heavy usually carry more axles than a standard highway rig, so give the axle count of each.
- Delivery
- Count on 7 to 10 business days once the photos and records are in hand. For a single crane or truck you can ask for a rush of 24 to 48 hours. An inspection in person adds to that.
- Fee
- Starting at $295. What moves it: how many pieces, whether someone has to see them, and how soon you need it.
What is different about equipment around Brownsville and Harlingen?
A deepwater port, heavy construction beside it, and grain and cotton country inland.
The port and the work around it
The Port of Brownsville calls itself the only deepwater port on the U.S.-Mexico border and lists heavy lift, steel fabrication, crane services and ship recycling among the work done there. NextDecade is building its Rio Grande LNG plant at the port to chill natural gas into liquid for export, and Saronic has broken ground there on a shipyard. A crane is set up for each job it works. List the boom length, the jib, which is the extension fitted to the tip of the boom, and the counterweights that go with yours.
Barges and the Harlingen and Port Isabel docks
The Port of Harlingen describes itself as an inland port on the Arroyo Colorado River for barge, truck and rail cargo, and the Port Isabel-San Benito Navigation District describes itself as one of the deep water ports in Texas. If a barge or the equipment on its deck is on your list, send the hull dimensions and any marine survey you hold, the written condition report from a surveyor.
Grain and cotton
Grain sorghum and cotton lead the crops in Cameron and Willacy counties, with corn behind them. Combines and cotton harvesters work only part of the year. Send the engine hours, and for a combine the separator hours, which count the time its threshing parts ran, where the machine records them.
What clients have said
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What equipment is appraised around Brownsville and Harlingen?
Equipment from the port, the construction beside it and the farms of Cameron and Willacy counties. A single machine or everything on the yard.
Cranes
Crawler cranes, rough-terrain cranes and truck cranes. Send the latest inspection and the list of boom sections and counterweights.
Heavy-haul trucks and trailers
Heavy haulers, winch trucks and lowboys, the low trailers that carry machines. Give the VIN, short for vehicle identification number, and the axle count of each.
Port and yard equipment
Forklifts, yard tractors, which move trailers around a yard, and reach stackers, which lift and stack containers. Photograph the data plate and the tires.
Barges
Barges and the equipment that works from them. Include the dimensions and the most recent marine survey.
Welding and fabrication
Welding machines, air compressors and generators from shipyard and plant work. List each by serial number.
Farm machinery
Combines, cotton harvesters, tractors and hay equipment. Name the headers that go with each combine.
Not listed here? Put it on the form.
How do I choose an appraiser for equipment at the port or on the farm?
Do they ask how a crane is configured?
Two cranes of one model can differ by the boom, jib and counterweight that come with each. An appraiser who asks only for the model and the year has not asked enough for port and plant work.
Will the report say which office it was written for?
A file here may go to the Cameron Appraisal District in San Benito, to the federal court in Brownsville, or to a lender or insurer anywhere. Ask that the report name its reader and its purpose.
Can they work around a job that cannot stop?
A crane on a plant job or a combine at harvest cannot wait for a visit. Ask whether photos and records are enough, and for the delivery date in writing.
Which Brownsville and Harlingen offices read an appraisal?
The Cameron Appraisal District. An owner who thinks the district has set the value of equipment too high can protest, and may put a certified appraisal forward as evidence. Two port authorities, the Brownsville Navigation District and the Port of Harlingen Authority, are among the taxing units the Cameron Appraisal District lists. Willacy County has its own appraisal district in Raymondville. Cameron Appraisal District
The federal courthouse in Brownsville. The district court and the bankruptcy court each list a Brownsville Division there, in the same building on East Harrison Street.
Banks and insurers. A lender will usually ask for fair market value, the price in an unhurried sale, and orderly liquidation value, the price when the equipment has to be sold in a matter of months. After a hurricane, an insurer may ask what each damaged piece was worth before the storm.
What should I gather?
- A list of the equipment with make, model and year.
- A serial number or VIN for every piece, with its hours or miles.
- For cranes, the inspection record and the boom, jib and counterweight list.
- Photos of each piece from all sides, with its serial plate and meter.
- The name of the lender, court, insurer or appraisal district the report is for.
Which towns in Cameron and Willacy counties are covered?
Cameron and Willacy counties, including:
- Brownsville
- Harlingen
- San Benito
- Los Fresnos
- Port Isabel
- South Padre Island
- La Feria
- Rio Hondo
- Santa Rosa
- Combes
- Primera
- Los Indios
- Olmito
- Raymondville
- Lyford
- Port Mansfield
Hidalgo and Starr counties use the same SBA office in Harlingen. McAllen equipment appraisal
Nueces County is served from the Harlingen SBA office as well. equipment appraisal in Corpus Christi
What else do owners around Brownsville and Harlingen ask?
My crane is working at the port or the LNG plant. Can it still be appraised?
Yes, as a desktop appraisal. Someone on the job photographs the crane, its plates and its load chart, the table of what it can lift at each boom length, and sends the inspection records. An inspection in person needs the site’s permission first.
Which Caterpillar dealer lists Brownsville and Harlingen?
Holt Cat’s Weslaco store, on State Highway 83, sells, services and rents heavy equipment. Its page says it sells Cat parts in the Weslaco, Harlingen and Brownsville areas.
Do you appraise equipment in McAllen and Edinburg as well?
Yes. Hidalgo County has a different appraisal district and falls in the federal court’s McAllen Division. The offices there are not the ones on this page.
Do you appraise farm equipment in Willacy County?
Yes. Combines, cotton harvesters and tractors around Raymondville and Lyford are appraised from photos and records, with an inspection in person when the reader of the report requires one.
Start your Brownsville or Harlingen appraisal quote
Cranes, heavy-haul trucks, port equipment, barges, welding equipment and farm machinery in Cameron and Willacy counties, appraised for owners, lenders, insurers and courts. Four questions, then a quote by email.