I have a friend that is a scrapper. He gets transformers all the time. I know he spends the time ripping them apart for the copper, but i cannot see how he comes out ahead spending the man hours deconstructing those damned things. I think he just likes destroying stuff anyway so it doesnt matter, but i would imagine he's only making a couple bucks per hour if you do the math. Not worth it to me, but i wonder if theres any other meathods for dismantling them thats more efficient. Once apart, there are all those copper plates to seperate. What a pain in the ass.
I was toying with the idea of making a filtered burner for him to burn off wire for all the copper wire he strips too. Scrappers could probably use something like that, but i dont want the burn off poluting the air. I was thinking of making a blower fed water filtration type of incinerater. Can such a thing be made easily for those that like to get all this copper wire and transformers? Would the energy spent in fuel make it worth it?