The Musgrave Crane leaves Tom’s workshop

This was an exciting day when the fully restored Musgrave Crane was ready to leave the workshop. When the crane arrived in the workshop it was in pieces and a shadow of its former self, now it was leaving in one piece, in full working order, not a flake of rust to be seen and the paint was gleaming.

The Musgrave Crane, on its heavy wooden support blocks, was moved out of the workshop and into the driveway using `old school` methods with a portable gantry, block & tackle, and levering bars.   It was then ready to be collected by C T Lewis , who lifted it by crane into the narrow street and onto the lorry to take it back to the Hafod Copperworks site.