Building wire and common cable
Branch-circuit and feeder wire used in commercial, industrial and agricultural construction — the wire that most often survives a project as partial reels.
Surplus wire and cable buyers · Statewide Wyoming
We buy surplus electrical wire in Wyoming
Have unused, excess, overstock or project-surplus electrical wire? Send us the wire details and photos for a purchase quote. We buy copper and aluminum wire in reels, spools, coils and cartons throughout Wyoming.
- Copper and aluminum
- Full and partial reels
- Reels, spools, coils, cartons
- 5kV through 69kV+
01Wire we buy
Five families of wire and cable, one buyer
We are narrow on purpose: electrical wire and cable only. That is why we can read a jacket legend and price a partial reel instead of calling it scrap.
Industrial cable
Tray, VFD, flexible and power cable installed in plants, mines, processing facilities and utility yards.
Control and instrumentation cable
Multi-conductor, shielded and paired cable for PLC, DCS, instrumentation and thermocouple circuits.
Low-voltage and communication cable
Fire alarm, data, thermostat, speaker and security cable, usually left over in cartons and partial boxes.
Medium- and high-voltage cable
5kV through 69kV and above, shielded and concentric-neutral power cable, from utility, substation, wind and plant work.
02How selling works
Four steps, no obligation until you agree
Nothing moves and nothing is charged until you accept a quote and a pickup plan.
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Send the details and photos
Use the quote form with what you know: type, size, metal, voltage, footage or reel count, condition and location. Photos of the reel tag and jacket legend do the heavy lifting.
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We review the material
We read the tags, compare the construction and condition against what is actually usable, and come back with questions if something is unclear rather than guessing.
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We discuss pricing and logistics
You get a number for the lot and a plan for moving it — pickup at your site, a combined route, or shipping for smaller quantities.
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Pickup or shipping is arranged
Once terms are agreed we schedule the pickup or the freight, coordinate site access, and confirm what is being loaded before anything leaves your yard.
03What surplus looks like
The material we see most often
Partial reels, cancelled orders and warehouse clear-outs
Most surplus wire is not one dramatic find. It is a dozen ordinary events: a job that needed 3,000 feet and bought 3,500, a feeder replaced during a turnaround, a discontinued color a distributor wants out of the rack, a service upgrade on a farm that left half a reel of URD.
We buy those lots as they are — mixed, partial, dusty, still banded, or already on a pallet in the corner of a shop. What we ask for is honesty about condition, and photos clear enough to read the tags.
- New surplus and unused overstock with tags intact
- Cancelled-project and descoped material, often full reels
- Partial reels and spools with readable footage
- Warehouse, factory and distributor inventory being cleared
- Clean used or pulled cable that is declared as used
04Who sells to us
Built for Wyoming businesses, not garage sales
Contractors, distributors, plants, utilities and farms hold the material worth quoting. Every audience below is a description of who typically has surplus, not a claim about a specific company.
- Oil, gas and pipeline operationsProduction, processing, compression and pipeline work generate control cable, heat trace, motor and VFD cable, and temporary power — often bought per project and left over when the project changes.
- Electric utilities, generation and renewablesUtilities, power producers, transmission and distribution contractors and renewable projects hold the highest-value cable in the state: medium and high voltage, shielded, concentric neutral, plus grounding conductor.
- Mining, minerals and resource operationsTrona, coal, uranium, aggregates and other resource operations run heavy electrical systems with strict specifications and continuous replacement cycles, producing large-gauge surplus in quantity.
- Manufacturing and fabricationPlants, machine shops and equipment manufacturers accumulate cable against specific machines and product lines, and re-scoped orders leave behind material that never gets installed.
- Agriculture and food processingIrrigation, grain handling, livestock facilities and food processing use heavy services and motor loads, and produce a steady trickle of aluminum cable, pump cable and control wiring.
- Data centers, telecom and commercial constructionFit-outs and tenant improvements generate large volumes of feeder cable, grounding conductor, tray cable, data cable and low-voltage wire, much of it left on partial reels and opened boxes.
- Demolition, decommissioning and plant maintenanceContractors stripping buildings and plants often remove unused or lightly used cable, along with new material from partially completed scopes.
05Wyoming coverage
Statewide, from Cheyenne to Cody
We buy wire located anywhere in Wyoming. These are the corridors where most of it sits.
Southeastern Wyoming
Southeastern Wyoming combines the state capital, the university, the I-80 freight corridor and a growing concentration of data centers and light manufacturing.
Southwestern Wyoming
Southwestern Wyoming is trona, soda ash, oil and gas, refining, wind and long-distance pipeline work — heavy industry in a thinly populated corridor.
Rock Springs Green River Evanston Rawlins Pinedale Kemmerer Afton Jackson
Central Wyoming
Central Wyoming mixes oil and gas, power generation, agriculture and processing.
Northeastern Wyoming
Northeastern Wyoming is coal country, plus oil and gas, methane, rail and a growing amount of commercial work around Sheridan.
The Bighorn Basin
The Bighorn Basin is irrigation agriculture, oil and gas, bentonite, tourism and the contracting businesses that serve them.
06Request a quote
Send the wire details and photos
The form goes straight to our buyer. Photos of the reel tag, the jacket legend and the whole reel are the three that matter most.
| 1 | Reel tag photo, square on |
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| 2 | Jacket legend photo, in focus |
| 3 | Whole reel or pallet photo |
| 4 | City and ZIP where it sits |
| 5 | Anything you know about footage |
Prefer a conversation?
+1 (614) 715-3047
saleselectricalbuyers@gmail.com
07Questions
The things sellers ask first
What kinds of electrical wire do you buy in Wyoming?
Copper and aluminum building wire (THHN, THWN, THWN-2, XHHW, XHHW-2), bare and insulated copper, MC and AC cable, tray and VFD cable, control and instrumentation cable, low-voltage and communication cable, flexible cord and welding cable, and medium and high voltage cable from 5kV up. We do not buy transformers, switchgear, breakers, MCCs, generators, machinery, vehicles or general scrap.
Do I need to know the exact footage before I contact you?
No. Exact footage helps, but a photo of the reel tag or the printed jacket legend plus an estimate is enough for us to start. If the footage is unreadable we will tell you what we would need to confirm it.
Do you charge for a quote or for looking at photos?
No. Sending details and photos costs nothing and does not commit you to anything. We review the material, tell you what we can offer, and the decision stays with you.
Do you pick up, or do I have to ship?
Either can work. For larger lots we usually arrange pickup at your site in Wyoming, and for smaller lots shipping or a combined route may make more sense. Logistics are agreed before anything moves.
Can you buy a single partial reel?
Sometimes, but it often is not economical for either side once travel is counted. Send it anyway — if it belongs with a larger lot or a nearby pickup we will say so, and if it is not worth a trip we will say that too.
Is any of this an offer to purchase at a published price?
No. Everything on this site describes what we buy and how the process works. We quote each lot individually after seeing the material, because condition, footage, construction and location all change the number.
Send the wire details and photos
One form, a few photos, and a real answer from a buyer who reads wire tags for a living. No account, no obligation, no charge for a quote.