{"id":9346,"date":"2015-09-11T21:49:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T20:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=9346"},"modified":"2015-09-11T22:08:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T21:08:23","slug":"a-job-ive-been-dreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/a-job-ive-been-dreading\/","title":{"rendered":"A job I’ve been dreading"},"content":{"rendered":"

A bit strong, maybe, but it’s definitely a job that I’ve not been looking forward to. Positioning the shuttering boards for the concrete base of my new tool store, that is.<\/p>\n

Making them wasn’t too much of a problem and didn’t take that long as I had an assortment of power tools at my disposal, including an old deWalt chop saw that Nick, my elder stepson, gave me when I recently visited the UK, plus my hand-held rotary saw that cut through the boards I used like butter, and my jigsaw. And not to mention my amazingly handy Black and Decker cordless drill cum screw driver. Here’s a shot of the finished articles ready to be placed in position.<\/p>\n

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One of the big advantages that I have this time around is that I can work outside the wood store that I built last year, which gives me electricity just where I need it. It also provides the possibility of shelter if the weather turns against me, which is very reassuring as not having any form of shelter was a source of great disruption every time a shower came over while I was building the wood store last year.<\/p>\n

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Then came the job of placing the first board into position and it was exactly as I had feared. Although I did my best to excavate the ground away for the board to drop into, as soon as I started to bang the pegs that support it into the ground they hit rocks. After persevering for about half an hour and working up a real sweat, I decided that it was time for a tactical withdrawal in order to work out a new strategy.<\/p>\n

After putting everything away and while enjoying a long cold beer, I decided the only way that I’ll be able to get around this will be to bang a long cold chisel into the ground first where each peg goes. This should break up any rocks that are there and allow the pegs to penetrate as deeply as necessary into the ground. If not, I’ll have to use the long metal rod that I used as a cold chisel when I had to make holes for pipes through the nearly 1 metre thick walls of my house to go down a bit deeper still. But anyway, that’s for tomorrow, if the rain that’s forecast for earlier on clears up enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A bit strong, maybe, but it’s definitely a job that I’ve not been looking forward to. Positioning the shuttering boards for the concrete base of my new tool store, that is. Making them wasn’t too much of a problem and didn’t take that long as I had an assortment of power tools at my disposal, … 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-9346","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\/9346","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=9346"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9353,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9346\/revisions\/9353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}