Paid on pickup
Ohio, county by county
Padmount, substation and dry-type units bought across Ohio, with rigging and freight arranged.
What we buy
What we buy here
Ohio is not one market. The lake shore runs on a grid built for steel, the northwest is farm country with a manufacturing spine, the southeast has river plants on narrow roads and the middle has a data-centre build-out that is younger than most of the transformers it replaced.
That is why the coverage below is organised by county first and city second. A county tells you which utility serves the site, what the industrial base is and what the roads will take. A city tells you where inside that county the unit actually sits.
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.
Coverage
Regions
The thirteen regions are a convenience rather than an administrative boundary. They group counties that share a utility picture, an industrial history and a set of roads, which is what matters when a crane has to be booked.
Counties and cities
Every county page carries its seat, its utility, its industry and its logistics. Every city page carries the same detail at a smaller scale, plus the towns next door.
What moves a unit in Ohio
A unit that fits a legal load moves without a permit, which is one reason weight matters so much on a padmount. If the weight is unknown, the tank dimensions and the radiator count get a buyer within a few percent.
A unit described honestly sells faster than one described optimistically, because the second one gets renegotiated. Most of what a buyer needs to know is stamped on a plate the size of a postcard.
A site visit answers in twenty minutes what a week of messages cannot. A seller who has the serial number to hand moves through the first call in half the time.
A substation-class unit sits between what a plant can maintain and what a utility would own, which is why it changes hands. A cabinet that has been opened recently has probably been looked at by somebody who knew why.
A seller with four units on one site gets a better number per unit than a seller with one. A buck-boost unit is almost always misapplied rather than worn out, and the diagram inside the cover explains why.
A seller who sends four photographs at the start usually gets a decision the same day. Every county in Ohio has a slightly different way of doing things, and a buyer who works statewide learns them all.
A hot mechanical room quietly derates everything in it, and nobody notices until a unit fails early. A number is only as good as the description behind it, which is why the questions are short and specific.
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
Do you cover the whole state?
Coverage means all eighty-eight counties, and the cities inside them are worked the same way as the farms between them. Every county in the state is covered, from the lake shore to the river, and Ohio sits inside the regular loop. Nothing about a transformer improves by waiting, and the oil in particular gets worse rather than better.
Service area
Which parts of Ohio are busiest?
Funds can clear before the crane hooks on if that is the arrangement you want, and we will put it in writing. A unit in Ohio is worth what a buyer can pay after the crane, the permit and the freight, and that arithmetic is the same in every county. A purchase is a handover of risk as much as a handover of metal.
Payment
Can you reach a rural county?
Demolition schedules, lease expirations and closing dates all work the same way here: give us the date and we work to it. We ask for the gate width, the turn radius, the overhead clearance and the distance from the pad to the pavement. A buyer who explains the reasoning gets a second call, and the second call is where the good units are.