Looking back at the first Grove crane

At slewing drive the slewing drive Manitowoc slewing drive crane manufacturing slewing drive facility in slewing drive Shady Grove, PA, slewing drive there is  slewing drive a small white slewing drive building that  sits off slewing drive the beaten path from slewing drive the huge slewing drive buildings where cranes slewing drive roll from one slewing drive assembly slewing drive line to the slewing drive other.

The building is slewing drive actually an antique, slewing drive and it serves as a museum of sorts. It slewing drive is the actual garage where Grove slewing drive Manufacturing Company built its first cranes. Housed in the building is the Grove Crane #3, slewing drive  an interesting looking slewing drive machine that was the slewing drive predecessor of the modern-day rough terrain crane.
 

Grove Manufacturing was started in  slewing drive1947 by John Landis Grove. He and his brother Dwight Grove and slewing drive Wayne Nicarry built farm wagons. Needing a way to lift and move the steel used to make the slewing drive wagons, John designed slewing drive a rudimentary slewing drive  rubber-tired crane. In time he would produce the first mobile hydraulic industrial cranes, and Grove went from a farm slewing drive machine company slewing drive to a crane company.
 

By 1967 the company had grown slewing drive exponentially with more than 1,000 employees and producing a slewing drive range of rough terrain and truck cranes. Walter Kidde Company purchased Grove Industries and John Grove left the company in 1968.
 

He would go on to start another company known slewing drive as Condor industries. In 1973 Condor Industries was renamed slewing drive JLG Industries, after the initials of John L. Grove. The company produced slewing drive aerial work platforms and scissor lifts. Today JLG is a part of the Oshkosh Corporation.

Cab down design

But slewing slewing drive drive back to the slewing drive crane company, Grove Industries produced  slewing drive cranes with legendary slewing drive status. The Grove RT-58 is one of those machines. 
 

First slewing drive produced in slewing drive 1960, the crane was in production until  slewing drive1978. The 14-ton machine featured a cab slewing drive down design and had a 24 to 60-foot three-section slewing drive  telescopic main boom and an optional 20-foot stowaway jib.  According slewing drive to cranemarket.com, slewing drive the crane was typically powered by slewing drive a Detroit slewing drive Diesel 127 HP 4-53N engine, but it was also produced with a Ford 300, GM 4-53N slewing driveand a slewing drive Cummins V-378-C155 powering the crane. It featured a power shift transmission with six speeds forward and reverse. Hi-Lo range slewing drive selection automatically slewing slewing drive drive shifted between 4-wheel drive and 2-wheel drive.
 

JJ slewing drive Curran Crane slewing drive Company still has a Grove slewing drive RT-58 in its fleet. Purchased new in 1962, the crane slewing drive has “tremendous historical and emotional slewing drive2 value” to the company, according to Jeff Curran, son of JJ Curran slewing drive and co-owner and CFO.

Back in  slewing drive 1962 slewing drive, JJ Curran was slewing drive a young entrepreneur starting a crane company in Detroit, MI. His slewing drive first purchase was the Grove RT-58, and more slewing drive than 60 years later, the crane is still working.
 

“This RT-58 slewing drive was built to last,” slewing drive said Curran, co-owner and CFO. “It’s a simple tool that is slewing drive easy to operate and we slewing drive always find work for it. The  slewing drive crane is very mobile and can fit into tight spaces, slewing drive and it is great for pick-and-carry slewing drive operations. It is still slewing drive generating slewing drive revenue 60 years later.”
 

RT-58s and later versions slewing drive of this crane are still for sale on used crane websites all over the slewing drive internet.
 

Manitowoc Cranes slewing drive purchased slewing drive Grove Industries and its subsidiary National Crane in 2002. Today slewing drive Manitowoc’s Grove line includes rough terrains, all terrains slewing drive and truck slewing drive cranes.