The 96-tonne crane that toppled off the A470 into a field near Erwood has been removed after an operation lasting nearly two days.
Two huge cranes were transported to Powys to put the crane back on to its wheels after it landed upside down behind a hedge beside the busy road last Thursday (February 15).
The two cranes, one of which had come to Wales from Newcastle, were able to work on a hardstanding area that had been built in the field on Wednesday.
When the crane, owned by crane hire firm Ainscough, initially crashed, a local specialist had estimated recovering it "could take weeks".
Ainscough had refused to comment to the Brecon & Radnor Express after the accident but after talks with the Welsh Government’s highways department Traffic Wales it seems the company was keen to recover the crane as quickly as possible.
Traffic Wales, which tweeted pictures of the recovery, said that the grass verge where the crane had crashed would need repairing but otherwise the recovery seems to have gone smoothly.
Tenant farmer and local councillor Karen Laurie-Parry, who rents the field, had spoken to the B&R earlier in the week about her "shock" after learning about the crash. Her horses had been in the field at the time the crane crashed through the hedge but fortunately they were not near enough to suffer any harm.
Dyfed-Powys police said the driver had suffered "minor head injuries’ but Ms Laurie-Parry said she understood the driver was OK.
Natural Resources Wales had launched an operation to mop up spilled fuel and hydraulic fluid which they feared might be a pollution threat to the River Wye which borders the field on its lower side. They used huge absorption mats to mop up any fluid that might have otherwise drained towards the river.
Temporary traffic lights have been in place on the A470, restricting traffic to one-lane only on the stretch of road between Erwood and Builth Wells.