carpenters are the custodians of the construction industry, they’re usually the first to come and last to leave. They have to accommodate and clean up after all the other trades, and always the “go to guys” if you need some friendly advice on where to run a wire, or a pipe, or some re bar, well you get the picture; a lot of the time its  just knowing where to find something or help with a heavy lift. Someone once said everyone and there grandmother is a carpenter, and they are probably right. In a nice warm shop with everything at your disposal granny could probably turn out some pretty cool stuff. Then trying doing it with the amount of adversity we face on a daily bases. Firstly time, there’s never enough we are always under the gun to get our job done so the the other trades can start their work, secondly, weather no weather on earth can stop a carpenter be it framing houses in the blazing100 degree heat in Arizona or forty stories in the air with sideways rain on a high-rise in Vancouver. I always loved forming pile caps in Fort MacMurray at -40 with freezing eyeballs. There’s nothing quite like freezing eyeballs.