I thought that the container ship bringing my mini excavator from China would probably not arrive in Valencia on time, but I was wrong. Its ETA was 6.30 pm today but by 5.30 pm it was standing off Valencia waiting for a pilot to take it in and by 6.19 pm it was docked and ready to start unloading the containers destined for this, its first port of call in Spain.
So I need to press on getting the garage I’m building for the excavator finished ready for when it arrives. Here’s a shot of the corner where it will be sited taken last summer. It needs to be cleared and ready for the build to commence now I’ve completed the frames for its side panels.
The first thing to go had to be the old damaged ‘tonnelle’ tubular metal frame and here it is cut up, dismantled and in my small trailer ready to go to the dump.
It’s going to be fine again tomorrow so with a bit of luck I should have erected the complete wooden frame for the garage by the end of the day.










