POWER IN NUMBERS - Kevin Constable of Fred Constable and Son weighs in on safety, unity and three generations of drilling

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We're in the well-drilling business. We're all nuts," jokes Kevin Constable about Fred Constable and Son, the business his grandfather - that's Fred - started in Maple, Ont., back in the mid-1940s."Mr. Jackson [a neighbour] retired and no longer wanted to fix our well. He gave the tools to my grandfather and said, 'Here, fix it yourself,' " and everything kind of spun from there," says Constable.Fred's son Ken started working in the family business in 1962, the year before his son - that's Kevin - was born. Twenty or so years later, Kevin graduated from the Resources Drilling Program at Sir Sandford Fleming College in Peterborough, and by May 1983 he was drilling full time. In 2001, the business moved to its current location in Bradford, where Constable now has six employees plus himself and his wife, Nicole, who runs the office.