Bexar County ยท Southside
We buy surplus wire on the San Antonio Southside.
Southside lots arrive on pallets in a yard with room to turn a trailer, which is the opposite of every access problem the rest of the city hands you.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
CountyBexar
SettingWarehouse and plant
Common lotOverstock and feeder
AccessDock-high, wide yard
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 · Southside
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
The south side is where San Antonio keeps its warehouses. Low buildings with dock-high doors, wide concrete aprons, and yards sized for trucks rather than for parking. A tenant change or a rack reconfiguration produces cable in a way that is easy to see and easy to load: reels that never got used, feeder pulled during a panel upgrade, tray cable left from a conveyor install.
Toyota's assembly plant sits in south Bexar County, and the tier-one suppliers that feed it run through the south side. Their electrical work turns over on model changes, so obsolete feeder, drive cable and control cable come out in planned batches. Older residential blocks nearby add demolition lots, and those look nothing like warehouse surplus.
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Warehouse surplus is a paperwork problem first
A distribution building accumulates cable the way a garage accumulates paint: a gauge bought for a customer that changed, a rack re-slotted so the service loop no longer reached, three spools of the same cord because nobody knew the other two existed. None of it is damaged, and all of it is in the way of rack space that could hold product. That is the easiest kind of lot to price, because most of it still carries a tag.
- Unopened reels, cancelled order
- Partial THHN and XHHW reels
- Feeder from panel upgrades
- SOOW cord and welding lead
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Supplier belt removals happen on a schedule
Plants feeding the assembly plant re-tool rather than rebuild. A line change means drives get replaced, conveyors get moved, and the cable that fed them is either re-terminated in a new location or abandoned, and the abandoned runs are what we buy. They usually come out in one planned batch with the machine schedule already agreed, which makes them easy to stage, easy to sort and easy to load.
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Demolition on the older residential blocks
Between the warehouses are blocks of housing from the 1950s and 1960s, and some of it is coming down. A house demolition yields service entrance cable at the mast, a meter bank, aluminium branch wiring and whatever the last remodel added, and it is almost always mixed with roofing, conduit and water heater debris. Pull the service cable and the meter pans into one container and the number improves.
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Loading is the easy part here
A south side yard usually has what the rest of the city lacks: a dock, a forklift, and enough apron to turn a trailer without a three-point manoeuvre, which changes a lot's economics because the truck arrives once and leaves full. Send the reel count, the rough weight and the dock height, and have the material at the dock before we arrive. Done that way, a pickup takes minutes rather than an afternoon.
- Reel count per pallet
- Dock height
- Approximate weight
| Family | Sizes we see | Condition we buy |
|---|---|---|
| Feeder and service cable | 1/0 to 1000 kcmil | Reel, cut length, removed |
| Tray cable (TC / TC-ER) | 14 AWG to 500 kcmil | Full and partial reel |
| VFD and drive cable | 8 AWG to 4/0 | Surplus, pulled |
| Welding lead and SOOW | 1/0 to 4/0 | Used, surplus, cut length |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Our overstock has been in the racks for years. Does age matter?
Less than storage does. Cable kept dry and out of sunlight in a rack is usually still good surplus, whatever the date on the tag. Cable that has sat on a dock apron through two summers is a different conversation.
Can you take a whole pallet of mixed reels?
Yes, and mixed pallets are normal here. Send one photograph of the pallet and one of each tag, and we will price it as a single lot with the mixed material valued separately from the tagged reels.
Do you work around a plant's production schedule?
We do. Loading a trailer in an operating plant needs a booked window, sometimes outside shift hours. Give us the window your site will allow and we will plan the truck and the crew around it.
What about cable that was buried between buildings?
Buried feeder and URD come out dirty and often wet, and they are bought on the conductor rather than the jacket. Keep them separate from clean rack stock and tell us roughly how long the pulls were.
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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