Kendall County ยท Boerne
We buy surplus cable in Boerne.
A Boerne service drop runs from a pole or a padmount up a long driveway to a house on a well, and the cable left over from that work is short, specific and usually still on the truck.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyKendall
What we see mostService and pump cable
Typical lotTruck bed to small pallet
AccessLong drive, gate code
Get a buy quote
Send the reel list. A buyer reads it.
Six details are enough to start. Tags and photos can follow by text or email once a buyer has looked at the basics.
- A buyer reviews the lot: construction, footage and condition, not only metal weight
- Copper and aluminium, 600 V building wire through 345 kV cable
- Full reels, partial reels, cut lengths, pallets and truckloads
- No fee, no obligation, and no automatic pickup
Reel list · Boerne
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Kendall County builds on limestone and cedar, in lots measured in acres rather than feet. Houses sit well back from the road, wells are the water supply, and the electrical service is longer and heavier than a subdivision would need. A single property can carry a service drop, a pump circuit, a gate operator, a shop subpanel and a generator transfer switch.
The cable from that kind of work is not glamorous. Offcuts of 2/2/2/4 SER, a coil of 10/3 pump cable, the tail from a 4/0 aluminium service, a roll of 6 AWG ground. It adds up over a season of Hill Country jobs, and it is worth a pickup when the truck bed finally gets emptied.
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Service cable on acreage runs heavier than you think
A house set 300 feet off the county road needs a service that a suburb would never specify. That means 4/0 aluminium or 250 kcmil copper in SER, or URD buried to a pedestal, plus grounding conductor sized for the distance. The leftovers from those runs are short but heavy, and heavy is what carries value.
Strip nothing. A two-foot tail of 4/0 is worth more as identified cable than as loose copper, and the print on the jacket is what identifies it.
- SER and SEU service cable, 2/0 to 4/0
- URD direct-burial to pedestals and outbuildings
- Well pump cable, 3-wire and 4-wire, flat and round
- Bare and green grounding conductor in cut lengths
- Gate, entry and landscape lighting conductor
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Well work is its own small economy
Pumps fail in August and get replaced in August. The pull leaves the old drop pipe, the old pump cable and a control box on the ground next to the well head, and the well man is already thinking about the next call. Pump cable that has been down a bore for a decade is usually done, and we treat it that way.
The good lot is the new cable: a partial reel of 10/3 or 8/3 submersible left from a job that needed 180 feet of a 250-foot reel. That is the reel worth photographing, tag and all, before it goes back on the shelf.
- Partial reels of 10/3 and 8/3 submersible drop cable
- Three-wire and four-wire pump cable, flat or round
- Control and pressure-switch wire from the well head
- Pulled cable from a replaced pump, as scrap
- Pump panel and capacitor boxes, counted with the lot
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Small commercial in a town that is growing
Boerne's commercial work is clinics, offices, shops, brew pubs and the occasional light industrial building behind a retail front. None of it is large, but all of it uses feeder, and a tenant improvement rarely uses a whole reel of 250 kcmil.
Ask the electrical contractor rather than the tenant. The tenant signs the change order; the contractor is the one holding the leftover reels in a trailer at the end of the job, and that trailer is where our conversation starts.
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Long drives change the pickup maths
A pickup in Kendall County is a half-day commitment, so it has to be worth the drive. Two reels and a bucket of offcuts will not justify a truck from San Antonio on its own. Ten or twelve, or a pallet, will.
We would rather tell you to hold a small lot and add to it than send a vehicle for a hundred pounds. If several properties on the same road are clearing at once, one run can cover all of them.
| Material | Sizes we see | What we buy |
|---|---|---|
| SER / SEU service cable | 2/0 to 4/0, 3 and 4 conductor | Offcut, partial |
| URD | 1/0 to 500 kcmil, 600 V and 15 kV | Removed, unused reel |
| Submersible pump cable | 14 AWG to 8 AWG, 3 and 4 wire | Surplus, pulled |
| Grounding conductor | 6 AWG to 250 kcmil bare or green | Clean cut lengths |
| NM-B and MC | 14/2 to 6/3 | Full roll, partial |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Will you come out for one partial reel?
Usually not on its own, and we will say so rather than waste your morning. A single reel is better held until there is a pallet's worth, or dropped at a meeting point on a scheduled run through the county.
The cable came off a working well and is wet. Is it worthless?
Wet pump cable with a swollen jacket is a low-value lot, but it is not nothing. Cut the ends back, let it drain, and describe honestly how long it was in the ground. Cable that was never installed is a different story entirely.
Do you need a gate code and a name for the property?
Both, if there is a gate. Hill Country drives are long and a truck that cannot get in has wasted the trip. Send the gate instructions, the driveway surface and whether a trailer can turn around at the house.
Can we meet you partway instead of a full pickup?
That is often the sensible answer for a small Kendall County lot. We arrange a meeting point on the corridor, you bring the reels in a truck bed, and the lot is weighed and settled on the spot with the same paperwork.
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You have the cable. We have a scale and a check.
Send the reel list, the tags or a photograph of the pallet. A buyer comes back with what the lot is worth and how pickup would work, before anything is moved.
954-740-1983 Call or text
- Reel tags, or the print on the jacket
- Reel count and footage, even roughly
- Where it sits and what can reach it
- Whether the cable is still energised