{"id":24119,"date":"2026-02-24T22:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24119"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T21:33:22","slug":"excellent-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/excellent-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unlike yesterday, which started out cool, damp and misty, only brightening up after lunch, today started sunny and bright and stayed that way, hitting nearly 20 degrees C in the afternoon. So it was an excellent day to get back working on my mini-excavator garage and I made the most of it. I didn’t do anything on it yesterday – I just bought the plywood I needed for the joint stiffeners (which is what I’ve decided to call them) and some more screws, small and large.<\/p>\n

I marked out the plywood yesterday and started today by cutting all the separate shaped pieces that I’d require and then got back to working on the garage side frames themselves. I’d left the one I’d already screwed together lying on the ground and my first job was to disassemble each joint, glue them, reassemble them and tighten their securing screws as tightly as possible. Then I had to make sure that the frame was square and glue and screw a joint stiffener over each joint.<\/p>\n

Having completed one frame I was then able to leave it lying on the ground and use it as a template for the second. This saved having to take measurements all over again and helped to speed the process up, but even so, having started just before lunch time (I did another job beforehand, removing a broken handle from the shaft of my spade and fitting a new one) I didn’t finish up until past 6.00 pm this evening.<\/p>\n

Shown below are some shots of the finished frames showing the completed second frame on top of the first one and images of each type of joint stiffener which had been glued and screwed over the frame joints. I was very pleased to find that even though I’d only used 3mm plywood the frames turned out to be very rigid and stiff. The final shot showing the frames leaning against the front of my house give a good idea of how large they are and when the garage is completed it should nicely accommodate the excavator and protect it from the weather.<\/p>\n

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In other news, the excavator itself is now getting much closer and at the time of writing this post the CMA CGM Cedrus, the container ship bringing it to Marseille, is approaching Casablanca. However, I think that it will be touch-and-go as to whether it will make Valencia by 06.00 pm on 26 February, its scheduled ETA, but we’ll have to wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unlike yesterday, which started out cool, damp and misty, only brightening up after lunch, today started sunny and bright and stayed that way, hitting nearly 20 degrees C in the afternoon. So it was an excellent day to get back working on my mini-excavator garage and I made the most of it. I didn’t do … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24123,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions\/24123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}