Medina County ยท Hondo
We buy surplus wire in Hondo.
Hondo's cable arrives from three directions at once: farm and ranch service, the buildings around the airfield, and the oilfield shops working the country west of town.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyMedina
What we see mostOverhead and control
Typical lotTruck bed to one pallet
AccessYard, gate, US-90 frontage
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 · Hondo
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Medina County's seat sits on US-90 with grain and cattle country on every side and an airfield on the edge of town. The building stock reflects all of it: older commercial on the main road, metal shops and sheds behind it, ranch houses with long service runs, and aviation buildings that were built for a different era of equipment.
The cable is correspondingly varied. Overhead conductor from a ranch drop, control wire from a panel or a piece of equipment, service cable from a building that grew, and the cord and lead that any shop accumulates. It is not a single-family lot, and it is not a plant lot either.
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Farm and ranch service is overhead and single-phase
Ranch service runs from a pole to a meter and then to a house, a barn and sometimes a second meter at a well. The spans are short, the conductor is triplex or quadruplex, and when a service is upgraded the old drop comes down in one piece.
Grounding and bonding from that work is worth keeping too. A rod, a length of bare copper and the conductor between them are small items that add up across a season of jobs.
- Triplex and quadruplex overhead drop
- Bare copper grounding conductor in cut lengths
- Meter can, mast and weatherhead conductor
- Submersible pump cable from well work
- Service cable to barns and outbuildings
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Around the airfield, the cable is control and lighting
Aviation buildings are electrically specific. Hangars need lighting and door circuits, aprons need floodlighting, and the buildings themselves are often older than the equipment now inside them. Refits there produce control wire, lighting conductor and the occasional heavy service tail.
Control cable is its own market. Multi-conductor 16 to 10 AWG, shielded or not, with numbered conductors and a jacket that says exactly what it is. A partial reel of control cable is one of the easiest things to price, because the print tells the whole story.
- Control cable, 16 to 10 AWG, shielded and unshielded
- Apron and hangar lighting conductor
- Hangar door and equipment circuits, often in conduit
- Service and panel feeder from building refits
- Instrument and signal cable from equipment changes
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Oilfield shops west of town
The shops that serve the field run on heavy single-phase and three-phase service, with welding bays, test stands and a yard full of equipment. Work there produces the same things it produces in Pleasanton or Floresville: lead, cord, feeder and yard lighting conductor.
The difference is distance. A shop twenty miles west of Hondo adds forty miles to a run, which is why those stops get grouped with anything else on the same road rather than collected one at a time.
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US-90 makes the logistics simple
Almost everything here is within a few minutes of US-90, which is the easiest road in the region to run a truck down. The complication is at the other end: a gate, a cattle guard, or a yard that is only open when somebody is there.
Tell us who will be on site and when, whether the reels are under cover, and whether the load can be reached without moving equipment. That last point matters more than it sounds in a yard full of trailers.
| Family | Sizes we see | Condition we buy |
|---|---|---|
| Overhead service drop | 2 AWG to 4/0 aluminium | Whole span, surplus |
| Control cable | 16 to 10 AWG, multi-conductor | Partial reel, cut |
| Service entrance cable | 2/0 to 4/0 SER | Tails, partial reel |
| Welding lead and cord | 1/0 to 4/0, SOOW 10/3 up | Used, cut back |
| Grounding conductor | 6 AWG to 250 kcmil bare | Clean cut lengths |
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 control cable in short lengths?
Yes, when the print is readable. Control cable is bought on conductor count, gauge, shielding and length, and a twenty-foot tail with a clear jacket marking is worth more than a hundred feet of unidentified multi-conductor.
Can you collect from a ranch gate off a caliche road?
Often, with the right vehicle. Send the gate location, the surface and whether a trailer can turn around at the house. Where it cannot, the reels get staged at the road and loaded from there.
Is aviation-side cable handled differently?
It is documented more than it is handled differently. Work around an airfield usually comes with a project record, and that record is what lets a reel of control cable be priced as surplus rather than as unknown material.
What if the lot is spread across a house, a barn and a shop?
Gather it into one place before the truck arrives if you can, and label the piles by building. A consolidated lot loads in half the time, and the loading time is a real part of what a distant pickup costs.
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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