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Not the assessor But the instructor and my sons course should have been failed ! He broke the side cover on my 346 that I had lent Jack for the course . He tried levering it off with a big flat bladed screw driver with the brake still engaged . Wanker . He said in his defense " its not like that on a Stihl "

He was but then retired from being an assessor. So I didnt have a chance to thrash it out with him

So your assessor wasn’t even an assessor?

That's fair point , its not allowed on building sites

We did at nptc Kenilworth, Stoneleigh and we're told he didnt do assements for nptc .we had feedback from other people that he wasn't a great assessor for other reasons

I witnessed a CS30 assessment that was taking place while I was doing my Aerial Rigging training way back. The assessor was an no nonsense type old boy and one of the candidates was wearing a beanie hat under his helmet. He let the lad get as far as starting his saw on the ground and failed him on the spot for having his hat under his helmet. Seemed a bit harsh at the time 🤣

Shame you weren’t a confident 18 year old who would surely have challenged the assessors decision, after all, you did everything right.

established practice, more dangerous than winching

Apart from the hinge removal bit?

I have worked alongside tractor based and purpose built forwarders for over 30 years so I do have a fair idea of their capabilities. So now the assessor did deal with it, this bullshit is getting deeper by the minute. 😂

Paco is an alien:

Taking everything you say at face value - I would pay you £180 a day (after tax/PAYE). There are a lot of variables at play though - is most of your work domestic? How saturated is your area? Just bear in mind that not all businesses /owners are making loads of money which will be reflected in what they can pay their staff (not your problem I know but is if you’re geographically locked). You sound like you work well as part of the company and maybe all you need to do is have a chat with the boss!

SRV swapped from guage 13 to 11s when he quit cocaine. Clearly 13's here.

I did everything by the book. Literally

I know Crystal clear what happend and how it happend . I doubt you know the capabilities of a forwarder, I dont either ...as you will only know if you refer to the operators manual same as tracked carriers.. every machine is different . The forwarder was on full outreach ,working from a ride ,the tree was still semi attached by hinge. The assessor should of dealt with it not the candidate , and no feedback . Wether you like someone as a candidate or not your there to asses them nothing else . In the end the assessor just took chunks of the tree until it fell to the ground ... not good practice .

I know what the capabilities of a forwarder are and how to untangle a tree 😂. If you have safely attempted to bring down a hung tree using appropriate methods but where unable to do so, and you arranged mechanical assistance to deal with it, you would not fail, you clearly failed for other things, memory has a funny way of playing tricks.

Wasn't around in 2002, ive just got eye slip saying pass fail, Ive also got the a3 book that's still saying pass fail in a unit module.

A forwarder is designed to lift ,not pull. If u want to untangle tree u use a tractor winch , the tree species was beech /hornbeam. And what should of happend is the assessor should have taken over. I got the tree hung up and couldn't get it unstuck

When was this exactly, because candidate feedback has been around forever.

You clearly were ‘not competent’, hence you failed. You didn’t fail because a forwarder driver, who wasn’t even being assessed,couldn’t get your tree down, nor because the assessor was a c*nt.

It was me it happend to , and the forwarder was a valtra valmet derived machine .. blame the twat on the forwarder then.. Don't blame someone that is competent, can even tell you which assessor it was . I wasn't driving the forwarder, nor was I the assessor..so blame those to useless hunts. At the end of the day it was a question I answered honestly , and itbwas in the days before candidate feedback

On my small felling ticket I forgot to put my gob in, then pushed the tree over with my knob, assessor didn’t like my 18 year old confidence, so I bitch slapped him until I passed.

It was a 400’ mahogany. 15’ butt.

Decent lie in doing the crossword etc, couple of diy type jobs to be done. Booked a Crete holiday for next August and thinking of what I need to do with trip to old folk in Devon. Truly awful rain storm yesterday evening so didn't get to the Brewshed! Enjoy your Sunday! Warren, Peas.