Originally Posted by hoborobot69

-dieselfreak- my lady gets tired of how dirty i get with the benzos. I do side with diesels over 'cars', when friends need some car help, certainly will lend my hand, oil changes, belt changes, and fuel filters, but that is about it! Now when trucks enter the picture...

There is a romantic loss in modern cars and trucks. There is so much electronic wiring everywhere, it feels like im looking at a fat mess, not a tuned automobile! But when i look inside my hood I am not overwhelmed with the components, or the processes of diagnosis and repair. It may be more user friendly to work on an engine with electricity incorperated, but I prefer to sweat to feel the accomplishment.

Its similar to stone carving. (hope i don't go too far off track) The Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and any group of stone carvers up to the 1900's used hand tools! And my, what beauty they have formed out of the earth! And how long it will last! Many of my stone carving friends love to use power tools because they can move so much matter so quickly with power tools. Or they can achieve textures nearly impossible to reach with a set of hand tools, but i stick with my hammer, point, rakes, and rasps. And at the end of a sculpture, Ive really gotten my back into it. Ive felt the energy of the stone and transformed it with metal extensions of my being, powered not from a manufactured electrical source, but from the electricity from the center of me.

long story short, the harder i work, the more intimate i am with any project, i will appreciate it much more.