Ames, IA: Industrial Electrical Equipment Bought and Removed

A single transformer, one switchgear section, a pallet of bus plugs or a few boxes of breakers is worth a call. Because we route crews across Iowa continuously, small Ames pickups usually get added to an existing run rather than priced as a dedicated trip.

Written offers go out the same business day in nearly every case. After acceptance, typical mobilization to Ames is a few business days for a straightforward removal and one to two weeks for a full plant scope that needs phasing, rigging plans or utility coordination.

No. We handle removal. Your electrician or the utility performs the final isolation and we verify it; from there our crews lock out, cut and cap cable at the gland, unbolt the sections, skate them out and load them. If the Ames room is still partly live we phase the work.

Oil is tested, drained and manifested through licensed handlers, and you receive the documentation with your paperwork. PCB-suspect units go under a separate waste profile. Nothing is left on your pad in Ames and nothing gets dumped — the handling cost is already in the offer.

Before the equipment leaves your Ames dock. Wire, company check or cashier's check, whichever your accounting group prefers. On large phased projects we pay per load as it ships rather than holding everything until the end.

We still quote it. Records raise the number — a NETA test report on a breaker or a transformer is the single document that most improves what we can pay — but their absence disqualifies nothing. We price Ames equipment on what our technicians and the replacement market say it is worth.