Industrial Transformers?

Hi all,



I own and run a demolition company that does a lot of industrial and commercial demolition. I just got a contract to remove 3 industrial transformers. I have never done anything with these. I have heard stories of some of these things having up to $30,000 in copper in them. I do know about the pcb oil and have had it drained. If anyone has any advice on the best/quickest way to dismantle them (torching, using my shear), and how to tell which units have aluminum in them and which ones are copper. 2 of them are 10,000 lbs a piece and they are that typicle grey colour. And the third is that transformer green colour, 8,000 lbs and about 8 feet tall.


any advice would be greatly appreciated!

You might try running the part numbers by a transformer company like Florida Transformer, Inc Home to see if they know what the windings are made of. I know that's way down here near me but its the only one I've had any dealings with.

While I can't offer you any help on detecting which is which, or how to break down one that big...I will be the first to ask, can you post pics of the job in action? We love those kind of things.

Sure some folks will chime in with better help then my own, so I'll just wish you luck, an hope to see more on your up coming job.

Sirscrapalot - keeper of the traveling cooler.