I respect masterful men very much!
actually, a man should be masterful, even if he has intellectual job.
there're so many different situations in life when hands are needed, and definite skills are required, and it's great if a man doesn't run to call to other masters, but can solve the problem by himself.
the job you've done is huge!
Right ... I could probably have done the digging, but I even had no clue where to dig and for all I knew the problem could have been out in the garden. We do have a clever person helping us with this stuff.
it's ok if there is a man-adviser who can help and promt, but you're active in the process.
I see more and more men who are just out of use in any home work or activity. They can do nothing, and they just don't want to be able to do it! And it's ok if they at least can pay for professionals who can do it instead of them, but very often they even can't earn money for it...Useless people. We call them "white-handed" men meaning their hands are always white and clean because they do nothing)
I do quite much house work, baking bread, cleaning clothes, trying to keep the kitchen clean, delivering and picking up from the kinder garden, making breakfast and preparing lunch boxes for the kids (for some reason food in the kinder gardens and schools are out of budget here in Norway), etc, and I do pretty much everything including plumbing, electrics and painting myself on the boat (sometimes I rent people to help me, if I can afford it). I definitively got my hands dirty on Tuesday as I was cleaning sewage and pumping it out through a window. So I'm definitively not a "white handed man" - though, the dealing with those sewage pipes and that floor I've totally put away to this "adviser" and his company :-)