A carpenter

The profession of a carpenter is one of the construction professions. In modern industrial society, carpenters do not manufacture products, but use manufacturing products. Windows, doors and other finished industrial products are delivered to construction sites from highly specialized enterprises.

Even in the last century this was not the case in Russia, many carpenters made their own products.

Currently, carpenters, depending on the category (in Russia, from the 2nd to the 7th category), perform the following work: installation and repair of doors, windows, door locks, window hardware, furniture, door closers, manufacturing and repair of wooden structures (for example storage pallets, formwork), roofs in the construction of buildings and other wood processing. For example, for a carpenter of the 7th category in the Russian Unified Tariff and Qualification Directory of Jobs and Professions of Workers (ETKS RF) it is written ^[1] :

• complex carpentry in low-rise cottage construction, as well as in the restoration of wooden architecture monuments and in the construction of unique objects;
• production and restoration of wooden kokoshniks, platbands, towels and other complex elements according to ready-made samples, drawings and sketches.

Carpenter’s tools: ax, dash, adze, plumb line, brace, tape measure 3 - 10 meters, hammer, saw, glass cutter, nail puller, pliers, square, level, a set of screwdrivers and hexagons, hammer drill, drill, screwdriver, electric screwdriver, knife-cutter, jigsaw, chisel, miter box, planer.

The carpenter is forced to protect his fingers from the blow of the hammer, etc.

Protect eyes from sawdust, etc.

In the Russian Federation, women are forbidden to work as a carpenter in construction, installation and repair-construction works ^[2] .

• Industrial injuries

Back pain. As a rule, this is osteochondrosis. Numbness of the fingers. Various reasons are possible here: pinching in the cervicothoracic spine (osteochondrosis), in the elbow joint, and so on. The mechanics of the disease: the nerve is located in the canal; when pinched, a thinning of the membrane covering the nerve and its contact with the canal wall occurs.

• Peter I the Great , the first emperor of the Russian Empire, personally participated in the creation of the frigate "St. Peter and Paul" at the East India Shipyard during his stay in Holland in the fall of 1697.
• Norm Abram - a famous American carpenter, host of several TV shows on the PBS channel, author of books on wood processing;
• Harrison Ford - an American actor, during the crisis in his acting career in the 1970s he worked as a carpenter;
• Mikhail Myshev is a Russian carpenter-restorer.
• Vladimir Putin - President of the Russian Federation, 4th category carpenter ^[3]
• Mario is a character in the Mario series of games, in the first game with his participation Donkey Kong he was a carpenter.
• Miroslav Klose is a German footballer who studied as a carpenter during performances at the amateur level.
• Jack Vance is an American writer who at one time earned his living as a carpentry.

“Carpenter” is an incorrect, but well-established translation of the word “tecton” ( Greek. τεκτον , literally “ builder ”), since in Russia houses were built not from adobe , but from logs. In European translations this same word is translated not as a “carpenter”, but as a freemason (literally a mason ), since in Europe houses were built of stone (rather than logs).

• Joseph the Betrothed - The betrothed husband of Virgin Mary , mother of Jesus Christ
• Jesus Christ was a carpenter.

• Joiner

• Carpentry // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Maksimov S.V. Carpenters-Pechniks // Unclean, Unknown and Religious Power . - SPb. : Partnership R. Golike and A. Vilvorg, 1903. - S. 186—192.