Wilson Lythgoe reports on a near happy ending for this large  crane which had been allowed to become derelict, in pieces. It is now in a compound on Washdyke Flat Road. The owner has (2025) made significant progress in conserving the remaining parts. Reassembly is impractical as a number of key parts are missing, assumed lost.

Click on the link below for 1960s pictures of it in action courtesy of the South Canterbury Museum.

https://timdc.pastperfectonline.com/Search?search_criteria=stothert&onlyimages=false

Masochists can go to the second half of this page to see what the crane looked like before restoration began.

Click here for the surviving steam cranes in New Zealand page.

Click on the thumbnails for the larger versions of these 2025 pictures.

This is the sad sight that greeted Wilson in 2022: