Guadalupe County ยท Seguin and the corridor
We buy surplus cable across Guadalupe County.
Guadalupe County's cable is industrial before it is residential: 480 V feeder, welding lead, robot-cell tray and the distribution-centre runs that follow a corridor still building.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
County seatSeguin
TownsSeguin, Schertz, Cibolo
What we see mostFeeder, tray, welding lead
AccessPlant dock or 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 · Guadalupe County
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Three towns carry this county. Seguin has the heavy-component and automotive-supplier plants with their 480 V distribution, busway and welding cable; Schertz sits between I-35, the rail line and the Randolph flightline, holding warehouses, plants and the yards that serve both. Cibolo is newer, still finishing subdivisions, schools and municipal buildings, and the cable there is smaller and more domestic.
The lots split cleanly by origin. Plant work produces reels and tails with a maintenance history, often pulled during a shutdown and stacked by a dock; residential, school and tenant work produces partial reels and offcuts, more often copper and more often undocumented. Both are worth sending, though they are not priced the same way: one arrives with a tag, the other with a guess.
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The plant floor sets the tone
Seguin's plants run on 480 V. A feeder replacement or a line move leaves 1/0 to 500 kcmil copper and aluminium on a rack, often still on the original reel because the run came in shorter than the estimate. Add welding lead from the fabrication bays, shielded VFD cable from anything with a drive, and tray cable from the control upgrades, and the lot is heavy before it is worth anything.
Plant cable arrives with a service history, and that history helps. It tells a buyer the conductor was in a raceway, not in a puddle behind the building.
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Distribution buildings along the interstate
The I-35 side of the county is warehouse after warehouse: high ceilings, long lighting runs, service entrance at the rear, padmount transformer on a concrete pad. A tenant improvement leaves feeder, MC and leftover service cable; a spec building that sat empty for a year leaves whole reels that were never pulled off the pallet. Dock height and trailer access decide how quickly those lots travel.
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Cibolo, the schools and the newer streets
Cibolo is still building, and subdivision work generates the classic leftover: partial rolls of 14/2 and 12/2, SER cut-offs, a few hundred feet of aluminium service cable, offcuts too short to send back. Schools and municipal buildings add fire-rated and tray cable when refits run through the summer. A truck bed is a real lot; it does not need to fill a trailer to be worth sending.
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Getting it off the floor
Plant gates are the constraint here, not distance. Contractor badges, escort rules and shutdown windows shape when a truck can be at the dock, so give us the window, the gate, the dock height and whether a forklift is on shift, and the collection is planned around your shutdown rather than ours. Weigh tickets help; so does a photograph of each reel tag before the reels go into the laydown bin.
| Family | Sizes we see | State |
|---|---|---|
| Plant feeder | 1/0 to 750 kcmil | Removed, surplus reel |
| Welding lead | 1/0 to 4/0 | Used, cut lengths |
| VFD and drive cable | 14 AWG to 4/0 | Surplus, pulled |
| Tray and control | 16 AWG to 500 kcmil | Reel, partial, cut |
| Service entrance | 2 AWG to 4/0 | Partial roll, removed |
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
Can you collect during a shutdown window?
That is the usual arrangement. Shutdowns compress the work, so the cable often appears at the dock in a short window, sometimes overnight. Tell us the dates, the gate list and whether a forklift is available in that window and we plan to it.
Do you buy used welding cable?
Yes. Gauge and length matter first, then the jacket. Welding lead that has been dragged across a fab floor is expected to be scuffed; cable with deep gouges, taped splices or a conductor showing through is bought on the copper content rather than as cable.
Our plant has copper and aluminium in the same laydown area.
Keep them apart if you can. They are weighed and priced separately, and a mixed pile has to be sorted before either number means anything. Separating two pallets at your end usually improves the outcome more than anything said at ours.
How does school district surplus usually work?
Slowly, and with paper. Districts tend to release cable after a board action or a fixed-asset write-off, so the reels may sit for a while first. Send the list when the material is released and keep the tags and any inventory sheet with it.
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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