Jim Carter operates his 1968 Koehring 305 crawler crane
Jim Carter operates his 1968 Koehring 305 at a Historical Construction Equipment Association convention in Bowling Green, Ohio.
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Jim Carter found his favorite piece of antique construction equipment while driving home from work.
“I took a route that I normally don’t take,” recalls the now-retired nuclear-medicine technologist from Zionsville, Indiana.
“I see this machine sitting in this parking lot, and I thought, ‘Oh, they’re getting ready to tear down the old strip mall.’”