WE BUY SURPLUS ELECTRICAL WIRE IN DODGE CITY
Ford County has wind farms on one side of town and packing plants on the other. Both leave medium-voltage cable that is worth more than its weight.
Dodge City is the commercial center of a county that generates electricity, processes cattle and farms dryland wheat, sometimes all within sight of each other. Each of those operations buys cable in quantity, and each of them ends up holding lengths it cannot use again.
We buy wire and cable across Ford County: medium voltage from wind and substation work, tray and control cable from plants, service cable from storm rebuilds. Copper and aluminum, in reels, coils and boxed stock. We do not buy the turbines, the switchgear or the machinery.
Wind work and the reel ends it leaves
The wind projects in Ford County, including the Spearville area northeast of town, are maintained continuously. Collection-system cable gets replaced in sections, terminations get rebuilt, and a crew that ordered 2,000 feet for a repair often uses half of it.
Those reel ends are the highest-value material in the county by the foot, and they belong in the medium-voltage category rather than the scrap pile. A 900 foot length of 35 kV cable is not scrap; it is a spare somebody will want, and it is priced on class, conductor size and footage, not on the copper inside it.
Construction phase work is different from maintenance. A project that finishes a collector run leaves the tail of every drum it opened, and those tails are cut to no particular length and tagged by whoever pulled them.
- 35 kV and 25 kV collection cable, copper or aluminum, with or without concentric neutral.
- 15 kV feeder and riser cable from substation and pad-mount work.
- Grounding conductor, bare copper, from grid and tower bonding.
- Tray and control cable from turbine and collector-station panels.
Packing plants run on cable held in reserve
A beef plant cannot stop for a failed motor, so it keeps spares. That is the pattern here: not waste, but inventory held against an outage. When equipment is replaced, the spare that was cut for the old machine no longer fits anything.
The material is usually sound. Large feeder conductor, tray cable in the heavier sizes, portable cord cut for a specific connection. It sits in a crib or a container until somebody decides the space is worth more than the cable.
- Feeder conductor from 1/0 through 750 MCM.
- Tray cable and VFD cable from motor and drive replacements.
- SOOW and portable cord, cut lengths and full coils.
- Aluminum service and distribution conductor from plant expansions.
Hail, wind and the rebuild shelf
Spring storms across western Kansas do not discriminate. Hail takes out rooftop units and services, straight-line wind takes down poles, and the occasional tornado takes the whole run. Rebuilding means new cable, and the replaced material often comes down in usable lengths.
Service drops, overhead conductor and meter feeds are the usual storm surplus. Anything that was energised and damaged stays out of the offer; anything pulled dry and coiled is priced normally.
Rebuild work also runs long on materials. A contractor staging for a street of repairs buys more service cable than the street needs, and the balance stays on the truck until the next storm or the next auction.
- Service entrance cable replaced during storm repairs.
- Overhead and drop conductor removed from damaged poles.
- URD and direct-burial runs re-pulled after a washout.
- Temporary service cable from rebuild staging, if it stayed dry.
Voltage class sets the price, not the weight
Medium-voltage cable is the clearest example of why weight is the wrong measure. The same reel can hold 15 kV or 35 kV construction, and the difference in value has nothing to do with how much copper is in it.
Read the print on the jacket, the way a utility or substation crew would. It will give the voltage class, the insulation type and the conductor size. Those three lines are the quote.
| Class | Insulation | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| 5 kV | EPR or XLPE | Plant distribution, older yards |
| 15 kV | XLPE, shielded | Substation feeders, risers |
| 25 kV | XLPE, shielded | Collection and feeder work |
| 35 kV | XLPE, shielded | Wind collection systems |
| 69 kV and above | High voltage | Substation and transmission work |
Send the jacket print, the reel tag and the footage. Include the site, the gate hours and the lifting equipment. We will price each voltage class and arrange the collection. Cable only, from #14 singles to 69 kV.
Common categories
Wire we buy around Dodge City
Bare Copper and Grounding
Bare and insulated grounding conductors, bonding jumpers and clean copper wire.
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Flexible welding lead, SOOW and SJOOW portable cord, festoon and stage cable.
Open pageControl, Instrumentation and Low Voltage
Shielded pairs, control and instrumentation cable, fire alarm, communication and data.
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Nearby Kansas cities
Straight answers
QUESTIONS FROM DODGE CITY SELLERS
Do you buy 35 kV cable from wind maintenance work?
Yes, and it is the material we most want to see from this county. Photograph the jacket print showing the voltage class and the conductor size, plus the reel tag if there is one, and measure what remains on the reel.
What if the jacket is damaged partway along a reel?
That is normal on pulled cable and does not end the conversation. Mark where the damage sits, photograph it, and note roughly how many feet are beyond it. The usable length is what gets priced.
Do you buy service cable left after a storm rebuild?
Yes, where it was removed dry and coiled rather than left in the weather. Storm work produces a lot of short lengths, so bundle them as one lot with the gauges noted instead of sending twenty separate messages.
How are large reels handled at a remote site?
Tell us what equipment the site has, whether a crane truck, a telehandler or a forklift with forks long enough for the reel. Access and lifting decide how a collection is planned, so it is the first question we ask about a wind or plant lot.
Request a quote
TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE
Send the details and photos of the reels. A tag photo and a jacket photo answer most of our questions, so you do not have to measure anything twice.
- Wire and cable only: no transformers, switchgear, breakers, MCCs, generators or machinery.
- Full reels, partial reels, spools, coils and boxed stock all welcome.
- Statewide Kansas pickup arranged after we agree on the load.
- Prefer to talk it through? Call +1 (614) 715-3047.
SELL YOUR SURPLUS WIRE IN DODGE CITY
Send the tag photos and we will price the lot, partial reels included.