No fees, no broker
Sell a Transformer in Franklin, Ohio
Padmount, substation and dry-type units bought in Franklin, Ohio, with rigging and freight arranged.
What we buy
What we buy here
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.
Warren County
Franklin and the system behind it
Knowing which side of the meter a unit sits on decides who can actually sell it, and that is the first question we ask in Franklin. A photograph taken in daylight beats one taken with a flash, because glare destroys the stamped characters.
A gauge that reads ambient on a loaded transformer is a broken gauge, not a cold unit. A storm leaves a range that runs from cosmetic damage to a burnt core, and testing is what separates them.
The industrial base that holds the transformers
A buyer's first question is about the rating and the second is about the access, in that order. An insurance salvage is bought on the adjuster's valuation rather than the seller's hope, which keeps the process honest.
A buying desk earns its keep by answering quickly, because a seller with a unit in the way is not looking for a relationship. A seller should keep the photographs after the sale, because the next buyer will ask for the same ones.
Franklin's paper and steel work sits inside a municipal electric system, so the utility and the plant often retire equipment on the same schedule.
Rail, road and the last hundred feet
If a unit has to leave Franklin by rail, the loading window belongs to the Norfolk Southern Dayton District rather than to us, and we plan around it. A trailer needs somewhere to stand, and the place it stands is rarely the place the site had in mind.
A pad that has been used for storage for a decade will need clearing before a crane can set up. A unit in a yard with a wide gate and a flat approach is worth more than the same unit behind a fence.
What we look for in Franklin
A partial assembly is bought on the assumption that something is missing, because it usually is. The difference between a good and a bad purchase is usually information rather than luck.
A short list of photographs covers the cabinet, the tag, the bushings and the access, and nothing else is needed at the start. 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.
Moving a unit out of Warren County
What a unit in Franklin is worth
Questions from Franklin sellers
Nearby coverage
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 buy transformers in Franklin?
We buy in Ohio and only in Ohio, which is why a truck can be at a Franklin gate the same week the number is agreed. One desk, one state, one set of hauling relationships, which is why a Franklin pickup does not need a national carrier. A transformer with its original documentation is easier to insure, easier to resell and easier to explain.
Service area
Which utility serves Franklin, and does that matter?
Some units we pass on, and we say why: a burnt core, a missing coil or a contaminated oil sample changes the answer. Where Franklin has its own municipal system, the utility transformer and the customer transformer are two assets with two different owners and two different files. A purchase is a handover of risk as much as a handover of metal.
Payment
How do you get a heavy unit out of Franklin?
The process runs on one call and one look: describe the unit, send the tag, agree a number, and put a date on the truck. The drive from Franklin to our yard is a day's work, which makes a two-unit pickup more efficient than two single trips. The question that decides most purchases is not what the unit is but where it has to go next.