Burlington, IA · the Corn Belt
Burlington, IA Electrical Cable Buyers
Sale your Electrical Wire now !
- Paid before pickup
- No sorting required
- Freight and loading covered
- Any gauge, full or partial reels
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We buy surplus wire and cable in Burlington, IA and throughout Iowa. There is no obligation.
Why Sellers Choose Us
What a Burlington wire sale involves on your end
Funds change hands before a single reel leaves your property. There is no consignment and no waiting on a downstream resale.
You are never asked to sort, measure, strip or re-spool anything. Our team grades the material from photos and our own inspection.
Trucks, forklifts, reel handling and pallet wrapping are billed to us. That cost is already priced into the offer you receive.
Full reels, partial reels, boxed coils, loose cut-offs and several different constructions on one skid are all normal to us.
Wire and Cable We Buy in Burlington
Every construction is in scope, from 14 AWG spools to 1000 MCM feeder reels
The Burlington Market
We are wire buyers, not brokers. Cable leaving Burlington gets bought with our own money and hauled on our own freight. This is an Iowa pickup for us, staged out of Des Moines and covered end to end. Payment is upfront. You do not front the freight, you do not pay for loading, and you do not need to measure or strip anything before we commit to a price.
Every construction is in scope. What we see most often in Burlington is mixed partial reels on skids from a distributor's back rack and pallets of 12 AWG THHN spools in mixed colors. Across Iowa we also buy 2/0 welding lead coils out of a fab shop, soft-drawn bare copper ground wire on reels and wooden reels of 350 MCM XHHW-2 from a cancelled feeder.
Who We Buy From
Our sellers here are typically general contractors on an adaptive-reuse project, oil and gas service yards, electrical contractors clearing out a job trailer. We also buy from demolition crews stripping a site and industrial auctioneers with unsold lots.
The reasons vary less than you would expect:
- Rack space is needed for material that is actually moving.
- The shop is moving and nobody wants to pay to freight old reels to the new building.
- The construction is discontinued or an unpopular color, so it will never be pulled from stock.
- The feeder schedule got value-engineered and the original reels no longer fit the design.
Pickup and Freight in Burlington
Burlington is an easy run for us off the Des Moines lane, which keeps our freight cost down and our offer up. We are used to sites where the only access is a single dock door.
The material is valued on its own merits. The cost of getting it out of Burlington is absorbed on our side. Sellers who already hold a scrap quote often find the difference substantial, because a scrap figure pays metal weight minus processing and ignores what a full reel with a legible print line is worth to somebody who needs to pull it.
Common Iowa Constructions
MC & AC Cable
Metal-clad and armored cable in coils and cartons, including whips and prefab assemblies.
THHN & THWN Wire
The single most common surplus building wire: 12 AWG through 750 MCM, full reels, partials and coils.
Welding Cable & Portable Cord
SOOW, SJOOW, welding lead and portable power cord in coils and on reels.
Aluminum Cable
URD, quadruplex, triplex, MC-AP and large aluminum feeders from utility and service work.
Quote a Burlington Lot
Send photos of the reels and receive a firm number, usually the same day.
How the Sale Works
Four steps, none of which cost you anything
Send What You Have
A photograph of the reel tags and one wide shot of the pallet is enough to begin. If the tags are gone, photograph the print line on the jacket and we will identify it from that.
Receive a Firm Offer
We respond with a committed cash figure, usually the same day. It is an offer rather than an estimate, and it does not move afterward.
Schedule on Your Terms
Pickup in Burlington is arranged around your yard hours, shop schedule or dock availability. If a dock appointment or gate code is needed, we work around it.
We Pay, Then We Haul
Payment is completed before anything moves. Our crew performs the loading, the reel handling and the wrapping, and our truck removes it.
Also Buying Across Iowa
We cover 103 locations in Iowa.
Selling Surplus Wire in Burlington: Common Questions
Straight answers
Do you actually come to Burlington to pick up the wire?
Yes. Burlington is an easy run for us off the Des Moines lane, which keeps our freight cost down and our offer up. We do not ask you to arrange freight, palletize anything or deliver material to us.
Do I need to measure or sort it first?
No. Sorting is never a condition of our offer. We grade a lot from photos, the reel tags and our own inspection at pickup.
What if the reels are only partially full?
We still buy them. A full unopened reel is worth the most, but partials sell well, and even short cut-offs have recovery value. Tell us roughly what is there and we will quote the whole lot.
When do I get paid?
Before anything leaves your property. Payment is not contingent on us reselling the material afterward.
Will you buy a few coils in Burlington, or only truckloads?
Both. A pallet is worth a call, and if you have a warehouse full of aged stock we will quote the entire inventory as one purchase.
Do you buy aluminum as well as copper?
Yes. Aluminum URD, triplex, XHHW and SER all have real resale markets, and we buy them readily. Do not assume aluminum is only worth scrap price.
Have Surplus Wire in Burlington to Sell?
Call or text photos of the reels and we will return a firm offer, usually the same day.
Request Your Quote
Tell us what is on the pallet in Burlington and we will handle the rest.