Medina County ยท Castroville and Hondo
We buy surplus cable across Medina County.
Medina County runs on overhead: service drops to farm buildings, triplex and quadruplex on the poles, pump cable down a well, and the control wire that ties equipment together.
Call or text the buying desk954-740-1983
County seatCastroville
TownsCastroville, Hondo
What we see mostOverhead and pump cable
AccessYard, barn or roadside
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 · Medina County
Reviewed by a buyerTell us what you have and where it sits. Nothing is moved until written lot terms are agreed.
Castroville, the county seat, and Hondo anchor a county of farm and ranch country stretched between them. The electrical work follows the land: service drops to barns and equipment sheds, wells for stock and household water, and short runs to shops that repair what the farms and the oilfield break. Between the two towns the roads are long and the buildings are far apart.
Overhead conductor dominates, which changes the shape of a lot. Line is sold by weight and by size, it weathers rather than wears out, and it often arrives in loose coils rather than on a reel. Underground cable still turns up at the well head and at newer buildings, but the county's centre of gravity is up on the poles.
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Service drops and the farm yard
A farm service drop is aluminium triplex or quadruplex, run from a pole to a meter and then to a panel in a shed. Storm work, a pole replacement or a service upgrade all produce the same thing: coils of used overhead conductor with the insulation still on. Aluminium weathers to a grey oxide that looks worse than it is, and the weight is what finally decides the number.
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Wells, pumps and irrigation
Water is the county's real electrical load. Household wells take submersible cable; irrigation takes control wire, pump cable and the feeder that runs to a riser at the edge of a field. Runs are long, so conductor is sized generously and a pulled length is worth more than its gauge would suggest; cable recovered from a failed pump is a normal lot, not a problem lot.
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Shops, sheds and county buildings
Hondo and Castroville both have working commercial streets with older buildings on them, plus the county and school buildings that come with a county seat. Workshop work brings welding lead, portable cord and service entrance. Public buildings bring documentation and a slower release, because the material usually has to be written off before anyone can let it go.
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From the farm to the scale
Loading out here happens without a dock. A flatbed, a tractor with forks, a winch and a length of chain do the work that a dock and a forklift do in the city; that is fine. What helps is knowing the weight roughly beforehand, so the right trailer arrives, and having the reels and coils gathered in one place rather than scattered across three sheds.
Questions
Answers before you send anything.
If your question is not here, call the desk. A buyer answers, not a call centre.
We pulled overhead conductor after a storm. Do you buy it damaged?
Yes. Storm conductor is bought on size, metal and weight, and damage matters less than it does for insulated building wire. Keep the different sizes apart if you can, and say whether it is ACSR with a steel core or all-aluminium, because that changes the read.
Pump cable out of a well that went dry.
That is a common lot here. Cable from a dry well is judged on the jacket and the copper, not on why it came out. If it has been coiled in the sun since removal, say so; weathered jacket is expected and priced accordingly rather than refused.
Can you collect a small lot from a farm?
If it is genuinely small, freight or a meet point usually works better than sending a truck down a ranch road. Tell us the weight and the nearest highway junction and a buyer will say which of the two makes sense.
We are an hour from a scale. How is the weight settled?
Either at a public scale on the route or at ours on arrival, with the ticket shared with you. Where a farm has its own certified scale, we will use it. The point is that both sides see the same number before anything is loaded.
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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