"Work smarder, not harder"
Carefully controlled balance, leverage, pivots, fulcrums, rollers, comealongs, peavies, wheels, gin poles... NOT muscle.
Practice and you will learn the skills our predecessors used every day before internal combustion. And it is amazing what can be done. You will develop an intuitive sense and the impossible becomes everyday. You will walk prouder and taller amongst mere mortals.
How much "work" does it take to purchase and maintain a front loader or forklift? Are you then working for yourself, or the bank? Does it actually save "time" overall? Maybe yes, maybe no.
As a society we have let cheap horsepower replace grace and skill and knowledge - a $4000 riding mower seems necessary only because we no longer have any idea how to get a scythe truely sharp.
There is a great video clip on "u-tube" that shows a single man working alone raising a 20 (?) ton concrete column to vertical, just using small wooden wedges and buckets of sand as counterweights.
The Pyramids, Easter Island, and Stonehenge were built without power equipment...
End of Rant. I have to go invent the wheel and discover fire. ;-)
Pete
