Wilson County ยท Floresville
We buy surplus cable in Floresville.
Floresville does three kinds of work at once: county business around the square, agricultural yards behind it, and the service shops that arrived with the Eagle Ford.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyWilson
What we see mostCord, feeder, overhead
Typical lotTruck bed to one pallet
AccessYard gate, gravel apron
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 · Floresville
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Wilson County's seat keeps its courthouse on a square with parking on all four sides, and the buildings that serve it are spread across the blocks around it. Beyond that the town turns agricultural fast: implement yards, grain and peanut equipment, cattle, workshops with a welder in the corner and a parts room at the back.
The service shops came later and brought a different kind of electrical work: three-phase, heavy cord, welding bays and yard lighting. Between the three, a Floresville lot is rarely one thing. It is a service tail, a coil of cord, a partial reel of feeder and a bundle of overhead conductor.
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County buildings refit on budgets, not schedules
A courthouse, an annex or a county yard building gets worked on when money is available, which means in phases and often out of sequence. A panel is replaced this year, the lighting next, and the service upgrade waits for a grant.
Each phase leaves material. Service tails from a mast replacement, feeder cut for a panel that moved, and the leftover reel that was bought for the phase that did not happen. Those lots are small, well documented and easy to price.
- Service entrance and meter-side conductor
- Feeder for panel replacements, 1/0 to 350 kcmil
- Lighting and receptacle circuits from phased refits
- Fire-rated and egress cable from life-safety work
- Grounding conductor from service and rod upgrades
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Agricultural yards are overhead and hard-used
On the ag side, service is often overhead and the buildings are sheds. A drop to a shop or a grain building is short, exposed and replaced every so often when a pole rots or a truck clips a guy wire.
What comes down is triplex or quadruplex aluminium, sometimes with a length of insulated conductor spliced in. Keep the span whole. Cutting it into carrying lengths destroys most of the reason it is worth buying.
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Service shops run portable cable to failure
A shop that repairs equipment uses cord the way a workshop uses rags. It gets dragged, pinched, run over and left in the sun, and it gets replaced rather than repaired once the jacket is through. The old cord piles up behind the bench because nobody wants to pay to throw it away.
That pile is worth a look. SOOW and welding lead with sound jacket on the middle and damage only at the ends can be cut back and sold as shorter cable. Cord that is cracked along its length is metal.
- SOOW and SJOOW cord, 18/3 through 2/0
- Welding lead from repair bays, 1/0 to 4/0
- Heavy-duty extension cord, cut and taped
- Control and pendant cable from shop equipment
- Service and yard lighting conductor
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Loading off a gravel apron
Most of these yards load from a gravel apron beside a shop door, with a forklift if you are lucky and a hand truck if you are not. A dock is rare. That is workable as long as the truck can turn and the reels can be rolled to it.
Send a photograph of the apron and the gate, and say whether the yard is locked at night. A lot that cannot be reached after five o'clock is a lot that gets collected on a different day.
| Source | What it usually is | How it arrives |
|---|---|---|
| County building refit | Service tails, feeder, lighting | Pallet, coiled |
| Farm and ranch service | Triplex, quadruplex, drop cable | Whole span |
| Equipment repair shop | SOOW cord, welding lead | Bins, loose coil |
| Grain or implement yard | Service cable, motor leads | Cut lengths |
| Contractor surplus | Mixed reels from a finished job | Reel, pallet |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Do you buy from county or municipal jobs?
Yes, once the material has been released by the entity that owned it. Surplus from a public job usually needs a documented release or an auction award before it can change hands. Bring that paperwork and the pickup is straightforward.
Is worn shop cord worth collecting at all?
Some of it. Cord with damage only at the ends can be cut back and sold as shorter lengths. Cord that is cracked along its run, or has been overheated at the connectors, is copper and rubber, and needs volume to be worth a trip.
Can you collect from a yard outside Floresville?
Across Wilson County, yes, as part of a run that covers several addresses. Send the nearest crossroads and what is at the gate, and the stop will be scheduled with anything else on that side of the county.
What if the lot is a mix of overhead wire and shop cord?
That is the normal Floresville lot, and it is fine. The two are kept separate for valuation and weighed separately, but they can travel on the same truck. Label the piles so the split is obvious at loading.
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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