A carpenter

1. General characteristics of the profession

Participates in the construction and repair of residential buildings, bridges and other structures. The carpenter cuts log walls, spreads floors, installs window frames and doors, scaffolding, fences, etc. It manufactures and assembles the span structures of girder bridges, prepares wooden supports for communication lines and electricity transmissions. Performs a variety of operations for working with timber: weighing, sawing, drilling holes, connecting elements of wooden structures, processing protective structures.

2. Requirements for the individual characteristics of a specialist

The carpenter needs physical endurance, an accurate eye, strength and mobility of the hands, torso, legs, a developed sense of balance, spatial imagination. He needs: the ability to concentrate and distribute attention, good memory.

3. Medical contraindications

The work is not recommended for people suffering from allergies to wood dust, diseases of the musculoskeletal system, neuropsychiatric diseases, chronic pneumonia, with a significant reduction in visual acuity.

4. Requirements for training

Must know the basics of mathematics, physics, drawing in the volume of high school; wood species and defects; marking methods and the manufacture of wooden structures; rules for handling special formulations and methods for covering timber with them.

The carpenter should be able to use the working tool, perform operations on working with timber, “read” the drawings.

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