We handle the freight
The sectors behind the transformers
Transformers from this sector bought across Ohio, as they stand, on the site's own schedule.
What we buy
What we buy here
A sector tells you what the duty has been, which is half of what an oil test would say anyway.
It also tells you who signs the paperwork and how fast the site has to be clear.
Who we buy from
Six kinds of seller, one desk
- Recyclers
- Electrical contractors
- Equipment dealers
- End users
- Demo contractors
- Distributors
Fast offers
A nameplate photo is usually enough to price a unit the same day.
Dedicated logistics
We arrange the crane, the permits and the flatbed, not you.
No broker fees
You are dealing with the buyer, so nothing is shaved off the offer.
How it works
Six steps from your yard to the money
- 01
Take pictures
The nameplate, the cabinet interior and the tank in daylight. Three photographs are usually enough to place a unit in the right class and the right price band.
- 02
Send them to us
The form on this page, a text or an email all reach the same desk. Include the city, the access and any deadline the site is working to.
- 03
Review the offer
A buyer reads the photographs, asks one or two questions and sends a written offer with the assumptions stated, so nothing changes on the day.
- 04
We schedule freight
Crane, flatbed and permits are booked around your access. You get a date and a window, and we carry the cost of getting it right.
- 05
Testing on arrival
Winding resistance, megger and turns ratio, plus oil analysis where the unit is liquid filled. The results decide the final number, and you see them.
- 06
Get paid
Payment is released on the agreed terms once the unit is received and tested, by check or ACH. No retention, no sixty-day terms.
What we handle for you
The parts sellers dread, done for you
Rigging
Crane and forklift arranged around your access, not the other way round.
Oil containment
Bunds, absorbent and disposal handled before the unit moves.
Bill of sale
A clean title document for your records, signed on collection.
PCB paperwork
Pre-1979 units get the testing and the manifest they need.
Industries
The detail that decides the number
A substation-class unit sits between what a plant can maintain and what a utility would own, which is why it changes hands.
A site that has been photographed properly can be quoted without a visit, and the visit is only a confirmation.
A seller with a deadline should say so early, because the schedule is built around the date rather than the unit.
A purchase is a handover of risk as much as a handover of metal.
A unit that is documented is easier to move than one that is not, in every sense of the word.
A demolition pickup is fast, dirty and often the most profitable, because the alternative is a unit in a rubble pile.
The industry runs on relationships, but the first one starts with a nameplate photograph.
A cabinet that has been opened recently has probably been looked at by somebody who knew why.
A purchase is a handover of risk as much as a handover of metal.
A short drive within one county costs less than a long drive across three, and the number shows it.
A unit in a building that is coming down is a different problem from a unit in a plant that is staying.
A seller who sends four photographs at the start usually gets a decision the same day.
A relocation leaves behind exactly the units that were built into the building, which is why they become surplus.
The unit will outlast the building it serves, which is why so many of them change hands.
A seller who mentions the deadline in the first sentence gets a schedule rather than a queue.
A seller with a deadline should say so early, because the schedule is built around the date rather than the unit.
A cabinet that has been opened recently has probably been looked at by somebody who knew why.
A desk that buys for its own account answers with a figure rather than a promise to find one.
The question that decides most purchases is not what the unit is but where it has to go next.
A buyer who has seen the site will always beat a buyer who has only seen a form, which is why the visit is free.
A buyer who turns up with a torch and a tape measure is not there to argue about the paint.
Everything in this section
Questions
Get started
Get an offer in minutes
Five fields and a phone number is all we need to start. We reply the same business day, and a firm number follows the nameplate photo.
(614) 715-3047or send the form and we will call you.
Questions
What sellers ask before they call
Equipment types
Is every page here written for Ohio?
Funds can clear before the crane hooks on if that is the arrangement you want, and we will put it in writing. We buy in Ohio and only in Ohio, which is why a truck can be at a Ohio gate the same week the number is agreed. The unit is the easy part; the site, the access and the paperwork are where the time goes.
Service area
Can I sell a unit that is not listed here?
You are paid when the unit leaves the pad, not thirty days after it arrives somewhere else. If a unit is scrap, we will tell you it is scrap instead of dressing it up as something better. A unit described honestly sells faster than one described optimistically, because the second one gets renegotiated.
Payment
How do I get a number?
You deal with the same desk from the first call to the wire, and the person who quoted is the person who signs the bill of sale. You will not be handed to a call centre. The person who answers the phone is the person who decides whether we buy. A buyer who arrives unprepared wastes the site's morning, which is remembered long after the unit is gone.
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