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 Age: 36
Lives in Milford
With S.P. Brooks since: 2002
Andrew started as a temp worker, and ended up staying on with S.P. Brooks as a crane operator.  Like the other guys who work here, he does lots of different jobs. His main responsibilities include maintaining vehicles, cutting rafters and floor joists, loading and unloading trucks, and whatever else might be needed.
“We’re such a small group that mainly everybody can do anything,” Andrew says.
He travels between six and 10 times per year to put up S.P. Brooks timber frames, usually for about five days at a time. These trips have taken him all over New England, including islands off the Maine and Massachusetts coasts, and to Florida.
Andrew grew up around barns, coming from a union of two farming families. His grandparents lived on a farm in Lyndeborough, and he’d known Phil Brooks for years before he came to work at S.P. Brooks. Then, about a year before he took that temp job, he helped a friend take down a barn, and later, he helped that same friend build his house.
That experience, along with a number of other jobs he’d held in the past – installing tile and hardwood flooring, making cabinets, landscaping, working as an electrician and selling auto parts, to name a few – brought him to S.P. Brooks.
“It’s all kind of interesting how I showed up here,” he says. “I’ve always felt like there was a job out there waiting for me until I came here. And now I don’t think there’s something else anymore.” 
Andrew is married to Kimberly, a massage therapist. They have one child, one-year-old Kendall Ann, and live in nearby Milford. He spends his spare time – which now is limited, with a little girl around – bow hunting with co-worker Joe, hiking, backpacking (“if you go in January there are no black flies and no people”), rock climbing, and, especially, mountain biking.
His latest mountain bike challenge has been 24-hour bike races, in which riders try to stay on their bike, awake, the whole time.
“It’s not so much of a competition because everybody’s pushed so far beyond their limit,” Andrew says. “About midnight I go to sleep for about three hours – I start bouncing off too many rocks at that point.”
He’s also spent a fair amount of time telemark skiing at nearby Crotched Mountain. |
