Sell Your Transformers in Farmington, NM
We buy used, surplus and failed transformers throughout Farmington and San Juan County. Send the nameplate, take a same-day number, and we handle the crane, the riggers and the truck.

| County | San Juan County |
|---|---|
| Market | Small City |
| Ratings | 15 kVA – 100 MVA |
| Freight & rigging | Our cost |
| Payment | Upfront, before loading |
| Testing | Not required |
Selling a Transformer in Farmington
Selling a transformer out of Farmington, NM usually comes down to a date on somebody's schedule: a demolition start, an outage window, a certificate of occupancy. We work to the date. Send us the nameplate and the access conditions, take a same-day number, and we will arrive in San Juan County with the rigging and the truck at our expense.
The New Mexico market for used transformers
What comes available in this state is shaped by what it runs: Permian Basin oil and gas in the southeast, national laboratories at Albuquerque and Los Alamos, copper mining, and rapidly growing solar generation. On the utility side, PNM, El Paso Electric, Xcel Energy, Continental Divide Electric Cooperative all operate here, and surplus programs and system upgrades release both distribution and station-class equipment. Moving it out of Farmington means I-25, I-40 and I-10 with Albuquerque and El Paso as consolidation points. Notably, Permian Basin electrical infrastructure turns over quickly with drilling cycles, and New Mexico solar interconnection work releases collector transformers.
Rural and small-city pickups are our cost, not yours
The reason surplus transformers sit for years in places like Farmington is that most buyers quietly expect the seller to arrange loadout, and arranging a crane and a lowboy for one unit is expensive and unfamiliar work for a plant manager or a town electrician. We remove that entirely. Our crew brings the lift equipment, the rigging gear and the trailer to Farmington and absorbs the cost inside our offer.
Combining freight across New Mexico
For smaller communities we build a route rather than sending a truck for one item. If your unit can wait a short while, we will combine it with other San Juan County and New Mexico pickups, which often lets us pay more than a one-off trip would justify. If it cannot wait, tell us the deadline and we will price a dedicated run.
Removal and Value
How a Farmington removal actually runs
The sequence is consistent. You send the nameplate and a few site photographs. We return a firm number, usually the same day. On acceptance we schedule against your window and send you insurance documentation and a bill of sale in advance. Our crew arrives in Farmington, cuts and caps conduit, breaks the unit loose from its pad or anchors, rigs and lifts it onto the trailer, and leaves the pad broom-clean with anchor bolts cut flush. Your funds go out before any of that happens — we do not load equipment we have not already paid for in full.
What sets your number in Farmington
Five things, in roughly this order: kVA rating, voltage class, winding material, fluid and condition. A 1000 kVA 12470–480V dead-front padmount with a legible nameplate and a sound tank is a resale asset and gets priced as one. The same rating with a cracked bushing and a weeping base weld is priced closer to materials. Copper windings beat aluminum materially. Non-PCB oil beats PCB-suspect oil, because the disposal cost is real. Documented test results — oil analysis, turns ratio, power factor — raise the number because they let a downstream buyer put the unit back in service instead of rebuilding it. None of that testing is required to sell to us, though — it is upside, never a precondition.
Equipment We Buy in Farmington
Dry-Type Transformers
Ventilated, sealed and cast-coil dry-type units from 15 kVA control transformers up to 5000 kVA unit substation sections. Copper-wound units carry a materially higher offer than aluminum.
15 kVA – 5000 kVA40–60 substation-class units per yearSubstation Transformers
Station-class and power transformers from 1 MVA to 100 MVA, including units with load tap changers, radiator banks and conservator tanks. These are heavy-haul projects and we run them end to end.
1 MVA – 100 MVALots of 10 to 400 units purchased at a timePole-Mount Transformers
Single-phase and three-phase overhead distribution transformers, 5 kVA to 500 kVA. This is a volume item — we buy them by the pallet and by the trailer load out of utility and co-op surplus programs.
5 kVA – 500 kVAFarmington Questions
Do I need to disconnect the transformer first?
Should I drain the oil before you arrive?
Do you actually pay for the freight and rigging out of Farmington?
How fast can you get a crew to Farmington?
What do you need from me to make an offer?
Nearby Coverage
We cover the communities around Farmington on the same terms, and we frequently combine pickups across this area into a single route.
Send the nameplate and the location in Farmington. Firm number, usually the same business day — and the removal is included.
Transformer to move in Farmington?
Payment upfront before loading, no testing required, freight and rigging covered.