City · Chautauqua County
Wire and cable buyers in Jamestown
An engine town at the south end of the state, where the Southern Tier Expressway meets a manufacturing base built on wood, metal and heavy motor loads.
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Jamestown lots come from engine and metal plants that run large motors continuously, plus a long tail of furniture, wood products and tooling shops. Expect heavy feeder, bus, shielded motor cable, welding lead and a surprising amount of control and instrumentation. The north-side plants load easily; the downtown brick buildings do not. The run from Buffalo is the other cost, so lots here are usually combined.
Engines, furniture and a corridor that ends here
Jamestown is the largest city in Chautauqua County and the end of the line for the Southern Tier corridor, which is why it grew as a manufacturing town rather than a passing one. The engine plant on the north side is the modern anchor; the furniture and wood products trade is the older one, and the two together explain most of the electrical load in the city.
An engine plant is a motor-load business before it is anything else: machining lines, test cells, dynamometers, compressed air, coolant pumps and ventilation. A test cell alone can pull a very large block of power through cable that gets replaced when the cell is reconfigured.
The furniture heritage left a different footprint. Multi-story brick buildings with freight elevators, dust collection, drying rooms and a great many small motors, several of them now occupied by more than one tenant or by a completely different trade.
The city is also built on hills above the Chadakoin, which is why several industrial parcels sit on terraces behind retaining walls, with a gate at the top and very little room to turn a trailer once it is through.
What the south county plants release
Engine and metal work sets the tone. A model change or a cell rebuild releases heavy feeder, bus, shielded motor cable, drive cable and control, while stores clearances release whole reels bought for a scope that changed.
The brick furniture buildings hold the older material. What comes out is a mixture of eras: cloth-braided control, rubber-insulated feeders, and whatever each successive tenant installed. It is recovery stock unless the construction can be identified from a print or a cut end.
Then there are the tool and die shops and the machine shops that serve them, which produce welding lead, portable cord, small control and partial reels — a lot profile that only makes sense when several shops are collected together.
- Engine, drivetrain and metal components plants on the north side
- Furniture, wood products and millwork buildings downtown
- Tool, die and precision machine shops
- Municipal, school and downtown redevelopment work
- Contractor leftovers from Falconer, Lakewood and the lake villages
NY-17, the rail and the long run west
The Southern Tier Expressway — NY-17, now signed as I-86 for much of its length — is a four-lane road for most of the run across the state, and it puts Jamestown within a straightforward drive of the rest of New York. It is still a long drive: Buffalo is roughly an hour and a half, and the Pennsylvania line is close enough that some lots sit nearer a Pennsylvania buyer.
Rail reaches the north-side industrial parcels through the short line that works the corridor, which matters to a plant that receives steel or ships engines.
In the city, access is mixed. The north-side plants have yards and docks; the older furniture buildings downtown have a door on a street with parking on both sides and no room for a trailer.
Specification
What a buyer needs to know about this cable
Every row below changes what a lot is worth. If the reel tag is gone, the jacket print and a cut end usually answer most of it.
Missing detail is not a problem — say what is missing and the review works from photographs.
| County | Chautauqua County, Western New York |
|---|---|
| Water | Chadakoin River and Chautauqua Lake to the northwest |
| Highways | NY-17 / I-86, US-62, NY-60 and NY-394 |
| Rail | Short-line freight service on the former Erie corridor |
| Dominant cable families | Heavy feeder and bus, shielded motor and drive cable, welding lead, control and instrumentation |
| Access notes | North-side plant yards and docks, downtown brick buildings with on-street loading |
Constructions
Cable families Jamestown lots usually contain
Engine work, wood work and tool room work each produce a different reel.
Engine plant and test cells
Heavy feeder, bus, shielded motor cable, drive cable, and the high-current leads and instrument cable that a test cell needs.
Furniture and wood products
Rubber-covered and lead-sheathed cable in conduit, braided control, and whatever the last tenant added to a brick mill building.
Tool, die and machine shop
Welding lead, portable cord, small control and partial reels, usually in quantities that need combining with another site.
Contractor and municipal
Building wire, MC, URD and street lighting cable from downtown redevelopment, schools and county projects.
Seller questions
Jamestown questions
Do you buy the cable out of an engine test cell?
Yes, once the cell is shut down, isolated and signed off by the plant. Test cell work produces very heavy, short runs — bus, high-current leads, shielded instrument cable — and it is valued on construction and condition rather than on length.
How long does a Jamestown pickup take to arrange?
Longer than Buffalo, because of the drive. A lot here is usually scheduled as part of a Southern Tier run with Dunkirk or Olean, which is why a little notice helps even when the lot itself is simple.
Do you cover Falconer, Lakewood and Bemus Point?
Yes. Falconer and the north-side industrial parcels, Lakewood and Celoron along the lake, and the villages around Chautauqua Lake are all covered from the same desk.
Can you load from a downtown building with no dock?
Usually. It means a straight truck, a lift gate or a pallet jack and a crew that expects to work from the street. Say whether there is a freight elevator and what the door height is, and the vehicle will match the building.
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