Atascosa County ยท Pleasanton
We buy surplus wire in Pleasanton.
Pleasanton's economy is oilfield service and equipment, and the yards along US-281 hold the cable that goes with it: heavy cord, welding lead, service drops and yard lighting.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyAtascosa
What we see mostCord, lead, service
Typical lotTruck bed to two pallets
AccessYard gate, gravel, forklift
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 · Pleasanton
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Atascosa County's seat has a courthouse and a square, but the working part of town is the yards. Pipe racks, pump and valve shops, equipment dealerships with a service bay behind the showroom, and welding shops that stay busy when the field is busy. Most of them sit on gravel with a chain-link fence and a gate.
Electrical work in that setting is practical and repetitive. A service upgrade when a shop adds a machine, yard lighting when a pad gets extended, cord and lead replaced when they wear out. None of it is large individually, and all of it accumulates in a corner of the yard.
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Equipment shops burn through portable cable
A service bay is hard on cord. Leads get dragged across concrete, run over by a creeper or a jack, and left coiled on a rack in the sun. The failure is almost always at the ends, where the jacket hardens and splits at the connector.
Cut the damaged ends back before you call. Six feet off each end turns a condemned lead into a usable length, and the difference in what it is worth is larger than the six feet.
- Welding lead, 1/0 to 4/0, with lugs or bare ends
- SOOW cord, 10/3 through 2/0, from tools and bays
- Pendant and control cable from hoists and shop equipment
- Motor leads and pump cable from equipment testing
- Ground clamps, stingers and connectors, counted with the lot
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Service and yard lighting on a pipe yard
A yard that stores pipe and equipment needs light on the racks, and that means poles, direct-burial conductor and a lot of it. When a pad is extended or a pole line is re-run, the old conductor comes up in coils.
Service is the other half. A shop that adds a machine needs a bigger service, and a bigger service means new feeder and a mast or a transformer change. The old feeder and the leftover reel are the lot.
- Direct-burial yard lighting conductor, 8 to 2 AWG
- Pole and rack lighting cable, plus the drops
- Service entrance and feeder, 1/0 to 500 kcmil
- Transformer and meter-side conductor
- Grounding conductor from rods and racks
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What a county job leaves behind
The county buildings and the yard that serves them are refitted in phases, like any public building. A panel here, a lighting change there, and a service upgrade when the budget allows. The material that comes out is ordinary building wire and feeder, and it is usually well documented.
Public material needs a documented release before it moves. If the lot came through an auction or a surplus sale, the award paperwork is what makes the pickup clean.
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Loading at a shop with no dock
Almost nothing in Pleasanton has a dock. Loading happens on gravel, off a trailer deck, or by hand into a box truck. A forklift is often available because the yard already has one for pipe.
Tell us whether the forklift can reach the pile, what it is rated for, and whether the gate is wide enough for a trailer. That is the difference between a twenty-minute load and an hour of dragging reels across a yard.
| Where it came from | What it is | How it travels |
|---|---|---|
| Service bay | Welding lead, SOOW cord | Bins, loose coil |
| Yard lighting re-run | 8 to 2 AWG direct burial | Coils per pole |
| Shop service upgrade | 1/0 to 500 kcmil feeder | Partial reel |
| Equipment dealership | Motor leads, control cable | Cut lengths |
| County building refit | Building wire, feeder | Pallet, coiled |
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 used welding lead with the lugs still on?
Yes, and the lugs come off during processing rather than at your yard. Leave them on if that is how the lead is stored. What matters more is the size, the jacket condition near the ends and whether the lead is one length or several.
Can a trailer get through a pipe yard gate?
Usually, but it depends on the gate width, the turning circle and what is stacked behind it. Send a photograph looking in from the road and the answer is quick. Where a trailer will not fit, a flatbed truck will.
Is yard lighting conductor worth pulling up?
If it is already out of the ground, yes. Direct-burial conductor in 8 to 2 AWG is buyable in coil form, and a pole line re-run can produce several hundred feet. Conductor still buried is a different job and not one we do.
What about cable that came off a county surplus sale?
Bring the award or release paperwork and it can be bought the same as any private lot. Public material without a paper trail is not something we will handle, which protects you as much as it protects us.
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No fee · no obligation
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