Kind of depends on what your local yard is paying. We have two yards in this area and there is a bit of spread between clean copper vs. breakage. I haven't looked at prices in a while although I'm aware they are down.
IIRC, last time I threw out some motors they were like 30 cents a pound and clean copper was something like 2 dollars. You would have to figure out how much of the weight was actually copper vs. the iron in the thing. If there's a pound of copper in each thing and it takes 15 minutes to extract said copper then you are at 8 bucks an hour. Of course this all based on my fuzzy memory and hypothetical numbers.
The way these things usually work out for me is that it will take 30 minutes to take all apart and then have 1/2 lb of copper in it!
Back to my story: I sold them whole motors and did something else with my time. The yard has a whole cadre of min wage employees and specialized equipment for busting things up.
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