{"id":24496,"date":"2026-07-06T10:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T08:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24496"},"modified":"2026-07-06T11:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T09:51:39","slug":"the-fickle-finger-of-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/the-fickle-finger-of-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"The fickle finger of fate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well wad’ya know. Yesterday the wind destroyed the small parasol that I had over the small round table on my terrace. Today I’m thinking that it did me a service. <\/p>\n

For the past several weeks, ever since the manufacturer replaced my Isward lawn robot that developed a fault with a new machine, I’ve been unable to mow my front lawn without running into problems. The new machine would not recognise the mapped boundary between my lawn and the field next door and kept crashing through into the the long grass in the field. Neither I nor the Chinese manufacturer could understand why it should keep doing it, repeatedly, over and over again in the same area.<\/p>\n

I narrowed the problem down to the system’s GPS RTK beacon which is mounted on a pole that I’ve placed next to the charging station. Even up to this morning I was convinced that the beacon was now faulty and needed to be replaced and the manufacturer had agreed to do so. However, I then noticed on a drone video that I shot about a week ago that the Isward was at about the same height as the beacon at the point where the boundary anomaly was the greatest and when I checked the signal I found that the machine was unable to connect with the beacon at that point.<\/p>\n

So I considered trying to raise the height of the beacon to see if that would help and looked around for a means to do so. And know what? The lower part of the tube supporting the now-destroyed parasol turned out to be exactly, not approximately, exactly the right diameter to accommodate the pole of the beacon. So I banged it firmly into the ground, inserted the pole of the beacon and set Isward off. <\/p>\n

And it now appears that all of my mowing problems are over! The parasol that’s gone didn’t cost much and quite honestly I’d have paid what it cost just to solve my mowing problems. It’s funny how things sometimes work out. Some people say that things happen for a reason. I don’t know, do they?<\/p>\n

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Well wad’ya know. Yesterday the wind destroyed the small parasol that I had over the small round table on my terrace. Today I’m thinking that it did me a service. For the past several weeks, ever since the manufacturer replaced my Isward lawn robot that developed a fault with a new machine, I’ve been unable … 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-24496","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\/24496","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=24496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24502,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24496\/revisions\/24502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}