Quote · Disconnect · Rig · Pay
Rice Lake, WI: Industrial Electrical Equipment Bought and Removed
Pulling electrical gear out of a Rice Lake facility normally takes three vendors: an electrician to de-energize, a rigger to move the heavy sections, and a hauler to get it off site. Coordinating three trades around one outage window is where these projects go sideways. We collapse all three into one contract and pay you for the equipment on top of it.
Wisconsin · statewide- Location
- Rice Lake, WI
- State
- Wisconsin
- Utilities
- We Energies, Alliant Energy, Xce
- Offer
- Same business day
- Payment
- Before load-out
- Phone
- 954-740-1983
Plate 01
Buying electrical equipment in Rice Lake
We treat Wisconsin as one service area rather than a list of towns. Crews moving between Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay and Kenosha pass through Rice Lake regularly, which is why a single transformer or a pallet of bus plugs is still worth quoting here — we add it to an existing run instead of pricing a dedicated trip.
For Rice Lake sites we quote two ways when it helps: a single number for the scope as it stands, and a line-by-line itemization showing what the switchgear, the transformers, the busway and the cable each contribute. Some teams need the lump sum to move an approval; others need the detail for their asset records. You can have both.
Plate 02
What we buy in Rice Lake
Fourteen categories. We buy every one of them at Rice Lake sites.
Electrical Switchgear
Low and medium voltage, indoor and outdoor
480 V – 38 kV, up to 5,000 AGenerators
Standby, prime and mobile sets
100 kW – 3 MW diesel and gasTransformers
Pad-mount, dry-type, substation, unit
75 kVA – 50 MVABus Plugs
Fusible switch and circuit-breaker plugs
30 A – 1,200 A fusible and breakerBus Duct & Busway
Feeder and plug-in, copper and aluminum
225 A – 5,000 A runsPanelboards & Switchboards
Panelboards, switchboards, distribution
100 A – 4,000 AWire & Cable
Copper and aluminum, new and reclaimed
#12 AWG – 1,000 MCMLoad Banks
Resistive and reactive, portable and permanent
100 kW – 3 MW resistiveCircuit Breakers
Molded case, insulated case, air, vacuum
15 A – 6,000 A framesMotor Control Centers
Low and medium voltage MCCs
MCC line-ups, buckets, VFD sectionsSubstations
Up to 138 kV primary
Complete unit and station substationsTransfer Switches
Automatic, manual, bypass-isolation
100 A – 4,000 A ATSCapacitors & Power Quality
Fixed and automatic capacitor banks
50 kVAR – 10 MVARComplete Plant Lots
One deal, one crew, one number
Whole-facility electrical scopePlate 03
What drives the number
Sometimes the equipment value exceeds our removal cost and you receive a check. On older, stripped or badly access-restricted Rice Lake scopes, the removal cost exceeds the value and the project nets near zero or a modest fee. You hear which one you are looking at up front rather than halfway through the teardown.
| Input | Detail |
|---|---|
| Condition | Working, retired, water-damaged, or already dismantled |
| Support | Are breakers and parts still available for this line-up? |
| Copper | Windings, bus bar and cable weight |
| Access | Rigging path, crane need, dock reality at the Rice Lake site |
| Freight | I-94, I-43, I-41 and I-39 |
Plate 04
Safety and documentation
Nothing leaves a Rice Lake site undocumented. Nameplate data is recorded as equipment comes out, regulated items like transformer oil and older capacitors are separated under their own profile, and you receive a reconciled report your EHS group can file against the original purchase agreement.
Paper you receive
Certificate of insurance before we mobilize, a written itemized offer, a signed bill of sale, and load documentation for every trailer. If your compliance team needs something specific, ask before we schedule.
Plate 05
Nearby cities and buyer desks
We cover the whole Wisconsin market, so if your equipment is not in Rice Lake itself, one of these is probably closer:
Plate 06
Rice Lake questions
Will you take the equipment we cannot sell along with the good items?
Yes, and this is usually why sellers choose us. Cherry-picking leaves you holding the leftovers of the leftovers. We price the Rice Lake lot as a whole — good gear, obsolete gear and the scrap fraction together — so the electrical room ends up genuinely empty.
Do you provide documentation for surplus property or audit records?
Yes. Itemized purchase agreements, weight tickets, bills of lading, oil disposal manifests and recycling documentation are standard on Rice Lake purchases. Public agencies and audited facilities get the paperwork their process requires without having to ask twice.
Do you actually buy electrical equipment in Rice Lake, or just broker it?
We buy it. Industrial Electrical Buyer is the purchaser of record — we fund the purchase, send our own crews to Rice Lake to disconnect and load, and take title when the equipment leaves your dock. There is no third party behind us waiting to approve the price.
What is the smallest job you will take in Rice Lake?
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 Wisconsin continuously, small Rice Lake pickups usually get added to an existing run rather than priced as a dedicated trip.
How fast can you get to a Rice Lake site?
Written offers go out the same business day in nearly every case. After acceptance, typical mobilization to Rice Lake 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.
Do we have to disconnect the equipment before you arrive?
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 Rice Lake room is still partly live we phase the work.
Form 1 — Request for Offer
Get a Written Offer
Send the asset list, or just describe what is in the room. We come back the same business day with a written, itemized offer.
Faster: call or text 954-740-1983
Email an asset list to electricalequipmentbuyers@gmail.com
Mon–Sat, 7am–7pm ET. We never resell your contact information.
Electrical equipment in Rice Lake?
Photos of the nameplates are enough to start. Written offer the same business day.