bigshow
Senior Member
I have posted about this crane in the past but never any pictures, But before we get to that I will give you all a little history of this crane. In or around 1961 my good friend and neighbors father, Les Scudder, took a 1953 Reo 2 1/2 ton 6X6 out to the Bantam factory in Waverly, Iowa to have this T-350 mounted for my former employer Rollin Callahan. Rollin was the only owner of this machine until I bought and saved it from the scrap yard. Unfortunately all but the crane, head and base sections of boom, a grapple and a clam were the only things that didn't get scrapped. It had '75 worth of boom, a 12' 6" jib, pile leads, a few dragline buckets, hoe, shovel, and bolt on tracks. In its day it was a well set-up machine, I have been putting the pieces back together and have been all over the northeast getting the pieces, as far as New Hampshire for a 10' main section, head and base also. So enough of boring you folks with its history, and on to the pictures.
Cab and chassis
These 3 pictures are when it first came back, ironically, the field in the background is where our new home was built.
Cab and chassis
These 3 pictures are when it first came back, ironically, the field in the background is where our new home was built.
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