Bexar County ยท Core, bases and rings
We buy surplus cable across Bexar County.
Bexar County stacks one building on another: 1920s downtown, 1960s subdivisions, hospital towers, hangars and new master-planned edges. Cable comes out of every layer of it.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
County seatSan Antonio
Building stock1920s to new build
What we see mostFeeder and service
AccessDock, yard or curb
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 · Bexar County
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Almost everything we buy sits inside one county line. San Antonio runs from a compact core out through Loop 410 and 1604 into unincorporated strips where the city limits stop but the building does not. A single county page has to hold downtown risers, base housing, hospital central plants and warehouse racks at once; the access rules change with every ring.
A Bexar County lot usually means one of four things: a contractor working inside the loop, a facilities crew on a base or a hospital campus, a demolition job on the near east side, or a subdivision electrician with a truck bed of offcuts. None of those are hard to reach. The county has the freight routes, the dock heights and the forklifts.
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A county of rings, not one market
San Antonio reads as rings. Inside Loop 410 the stock is old and tight: 1920s commercial blocks, 1950s infill, campuses that have been added onto for decades; between 410 and 1604 the buildings are newer and the electrical rooms are bigger. Outside 1604 subdivisions and distribution buildings are still going up, and the offcuts are still in the contractor's truck.
The ring decides the access, not the cable; a downtown basement means a freight lift and a curb-side pull. A 1604 warehouse means a dock, a forklift and a trailer. Both are ordinary lots; they just need different trucks.
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Bases, hospital towers and hangars
Four installations make up Joint Base San Antonio, and each leaves something different behind. Fort Sam Houston's historic quarters and medical training buildings generate service and feeder work; Lackland's dormitory and classroom refits shed building wire and tray cable; Randolph's technical buildings turn over control and fire-rated cable. Camp Bullis, on the northwest edge, is smaller and quieter.
Then the South Texas Medical Center between Babcock, Floyd Curl and Wurzbach, and Port San Antonio on the old Kelly flightline with its hangars and rail. Those two produce the most documentation-heavy lots in the county.
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Short distances, long paperwork
Nothing in Bexar County is far, but the friction sits between your reel and the truck: a gate with an escort requirement, a dock shared with clinical deliveries, a freight lift with a posted limit, a parking structure no trailer can enter. Name the constraint and the pickup is planned once instead of twice. Keep the paper with the cable as well; a mill tag, a submittal or a de-energisation record shortens the conversation, and cable that arrives with none of it is read on the jacket print and the scale alone.
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What decides the number here
Five things: footage remaining, conductor size and metal, insulation and voltage class, condition of jacket and reel, and whether the footage is documented. A tagged 500 kcmil feeder reel and the same copper coiled on a broken spool are not the same asset, and pricing them alike would be unfair to both sellers. We start from photographs and a reel list, book a site visit if the lot justifies one, and agree terms in writing before anything moves.
| Source | Typical cable | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Downtown refit | Service entrance, riser feeder | Removed, partial |
| Hospital campus | Generator, fire-rated, isolated | Tagged surplus |
| Base facility work | Building wire, tray, control | Surplus, removed |
| Subdivision and TI work | NM-B, SER, MC, aluminium service | Partial rolls |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Does it matter whether I am inside the city limits or out in the county?
Not to how the cable is bought. It changes the address and sometimes the permit trail, so tell us which you are. An unincorporated yard off a farm-to-market road is as normal to us as a dock inside 410; it just needs a clearer description.
Can you collect from inside a base?
With your access arranged, yes. Passes, escort rules and gate hours are set by the installation, not by us, so we work to your sponsor's instructions. Where that is slow, crews often stage the reels at a commercial address first and we collect there.
My cable is split across two jobs on opposite sides of the county. One pickup?
Send both lists with the addresses and the rough weights. If the two together fill a truck, one route usually makes sense. If one is three reels, it may travel as freight or wait until you have more. You decide which.
Is aluminium service cable from an older subdivision worth collecting?
Yes, and it is worth keeping apart from copper. Aluminium is priced on weight and condition, so oxidation, water in the jacket and mixed alloy all matter. A clean, dry coil of 4/0 aluminium service cable is a straightforward lot.
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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