man I have a lot of experience in this. My uncle became a millionaire scrapping those (like u picture). Don't worry about pcbs, there are plenty of places that will buy the oil. Just make sure u drain it into 55 gal drum for them to pump from. Next thing is this- in the late 90's they started winding transformers with aluminum wire to save money (resulted in massive black-outs), but most before or since are wound with copper. there are brass bushings inside most that make up a lot of their weight (which is what copper/aluminum is attached to). If not totally damaged, the tanks can be resold to local transformer companies. Its very valuable if u do it right. But; do it wrong and you'll be hit with $1m cleanup fine from EPA. just contain all oil and let highest payer (usually $.025 per gal) come haul it off. there are plenty of oil buyers. just Google "used oil buyers". Hope I was able to help. Arky
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