{"id":24256,"date":"2026-03-24T20:48:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24256"},"modified":"2026-03-24T20:52:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T19:52:40","slug":"close-but-not-quite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/close-but-not-quite\/","title":{"rendered":"Close, but not quite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This mini excavator garage build project is proving to be bigger and taking longer than I originally thought. Today I&#8217;d hoped to finish it off by completing its roof and walls but in fact only managed to get the roof done. And even then I ran out of roofing felt nails so still have a few left to bang in along one edge. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/garage_minipelle41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/garage_minipelle41_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/garage_minipelle42.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/garage_minipelle42_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But at least the plywood roof covering is now totally covered and the roof is waterproof and with some rain expected tomorrow that&#8217;s a good thing. It won&#8217;t matter too much if the wood of the framework gets a bit wet. I&#8217;ll buy some more nails tomorrow as I&#8217;ll also need those for the walls. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/garage_minipelle43.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/garage_minipelle43_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got some other things I need to do tomorrow so I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll do any more garage work even if it doesn&#8217;t rain. But just in case I&#8217;ve put a tarp over the excavator to keep it as dry as possible. It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;ve fallen in love with it but I&#8217;m not stupid and although it&#8217;ll be a working machine I want to preserve as much of its value as possible for when I do eventually come to sell it. That was the idea of building a garage for it in the first place.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mini excavator garage build project is proving to be bigger and taking longer than I originally thought. Today I&#8217;d hoped to finish it off by completing its roof and walls but in fact only managed to get the roof done. And even then I ran out of roofing felt nails so still have a &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/close-but-not-quite\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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-24256","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\/24256","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=24256"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24262,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24256\/revisions\/24262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}