Stripping Heavy machinery / contruction equipment

As Rusty stated, I would definitely look up parts before you scrap it, if not selling the whole machine to someone for parts/rebuild

well we were gonna strip it either way as mainly just something to do, its more about a good time lol. we find ti fun stripping machines ect to scrap.

so are there any certain things i should go after for scrapping?

Separate your metals: Probably gonna be mostly steel, a magnet is definitely gonna be your friend. If there is metal that is still shiny, its probably stainless so that goes in a different pile, then you have Aluminum which is non magnetic and is probably going to be corroded from sitting. Any copper wiring goes as #2 insulated around here, should be similar where you are. I would search certain machines on here to see if anyone has done one and explains about them better, ex: bulldozer, loader, etc.