Bexar County ยท Selma
We buy surplus wire in Selma.
Selma is a row of distribution buildings pressed against I-35, and the cable that leaves them is feeder, lighting conductor and whatever a rack move cut out of the ceiling.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyBexar
What we see mostLighting and feeder
Typical lotOne to three pallets
AccessDock, forklift on site
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 · Selma
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
The building type here is the shallow warehouse: two dozen feet to the deck, docks down one side, a small office pod at the front and a yard that is mostly trailer parking. Tenants change, racking moves, and lighting goes from high-bay to LED over a single weekend. Every one of those jobs touches cable, and none of them uses a full reel.
What comes out is unglamorous: 8 and 6 AWG lighting circuits, 1/0 to 350 kcmil feeder to a panel that moved, tray cable to a conveyor or a dock leveller, and the reel ends a contractor carried back from three buildings in the same park. Docks make loading easy. If a trailer can back in, the reels can leave on it.
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A rack move and a lighting change are the same job twice
Warehouse work is measured in weekends. The racking comes out on Saturday, the slab gets patched, the new layout goes down on Sunday, and the lighting has to be re-hung and re-circuited around it. The electrician chases the racking crew, and the old circuits land in a pile by the dock door.
That pile is a lot. High-bay fixtures on 8 AWG, emergency and egress circuits in MC, and the tray cable that used to feed a sorter, now coiled on a pallet.
- Lighting and small power circuits, 12 to 6 AWG
- Tray cable from conveyor, sorter and pick-module runs
- MC and conduit wiring from office pod refits
- Feeder tails from panel relocations
- Emergency and egress circuits, often fire-rated
02
Feeder is the part that pays for the trip
A distribution building runs on 480 V three-phase, and a panel that moves or a service that grows leaves feeder behind. Copper 1/0 to 350 kcmil, aluminium 250 to 500 kcmil, and often a partial reel, because nobody buys the exact footage for a job whose scope can still change.
Feeder is valued on size, metal, insulation and length, in that order. Two reels of the same size, one copper and one aluminium, are not the same lot. Keep them apart and mark them.
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Docks make the loading the easy part
This is one of the simpler places in the region to load a truck. The dock sits at the right height, a forklift is usually on site, and there is room to turn a trailer without a three-point manoeuvre in a customer car park. The complication is scheduling, because a working dock is a busy dock.
Tell us the dock number, the trailer length the yard can accept, and whether the reels are palletised or loose on the floor. Loose reels get chocked and strapped; palletised ones go on with the forklift and take ten minutes.
- Dock height, and the trailer length the yard allows
- Whether a forklift is available, and its capacity
- Reel diameters, so the right trailer is sent
- Whether reels are palletised, crated or loose
- Gate procedure, and the name for the guard
04
What lowers a distribution lot
Two things. Water, because a sprinkler discharge or a roof leak will soak a pallet of cable and nobody notices for a month. And mixed gauge, because a bin of cut-offs from six different jobs takes an hour to sort and ends up valued as scrap.
Neither is fatal. A wet pallet with the jacket intact can be dried and re-reeled, and a mixed bin can be sorted on site given a clear floor and an hour. Say which one it is before the truck is booked.
| Where it came from | What it is | How it travels |
|---|---|---|
| Rack and lighting rework | 8 to 6 AWG, MC, tray cable | Pallet, forklift |
| Panel relocation | 1/0 to 350 kcmil feeder | Partial reel |
| Office pod refit | 12 AWG to 10 AWG, MC | Coils in a crate |
| Dock and conveyor work | Tray cable, control cable | Reel, loose coil |
| Service upgrade | SER, 4/0 aluminium | Tails, surplus reel |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Can you load at a dock while the tenant is still shipping?
Yes, if we are given a window that does not collide with carrier pickups. Early morning and late afternoon are usually the gaps. We need the dock number and fifteen minutes of clear floor, not the whole building.
The reels are loose on the floor, not palletised. Is that a problem?
No, it changes the loading method rather than the value. Loose reels get chocked, strapped and counted one by one. Tell us the diameters so a trailer with the right deck height and tie-down points is sent.
Do you buy obsolete stock a tenant left behind at move-out?
That is a common Selma lot, and yes. Leftover reels from a fit-out, spare lighting circuits, a pallet of tray cable nobody wants to move to the next building. The lease usually decides who owns it, so confirm that first.
What paperwork comes with a warehouse pickup?
A weight ticket for what is weighed, a bill of sale describing the material as agreed, and a signed release for the property if the landlord or tenant needs one. We fill out removal passes at the guard house rather than after the fact.
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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