Prices for qualifications

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

Hi all sorry to bother yous but I am just wanting to know how much it would cost for my cs30/31/38/39 & chipper I have had a price off my local trainers and they said £700 Inc vat and that is all covered in a week. But at a local college it would take 13 days and cost me £2100 so I'm confused at how there is such a huge price difference about 50 miles apart any info is appreciated 

 

Jack

[spuddog0507]

Hi i think there is a misstake some where here CS30/31 would be cheap today at £700 and its generally 5 days plus a day for assessment, chipper 1 day £120 - £200 depending on how many are on the course, CS38/39 has got to be 6 or 7 days at about £1100 so if some one has offered all 5 for £700 in 5 days i would be asking some questions as how they can fit it all in to 5 days, i dont think its possible to do that be carfull,,,,

[Rough Hewn]

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[peds]

I did mine (plus stump grinder and some bullshit business module that wasn't worth the day) over 20 days with accomodation for three grand.

 

It'd be a bit of a squeeze to cram it all into a week.

[Con]

Is the £700 price for the assessments only?

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

3 hours ago, Con said:

Is the £700 price for the assessments only?

The training company said for everthing including assesments so training everything

10 hours ago, spuddog0507 said:

Hi i think there is a misstake some where here CS30/31 would be cheap today at £700 and its generally 5 days plus a day for assessment, chipper 1 day £120 - £200 depending on how many are on the course, CS38/39 has got to be 6 or 7 days at about £1100 so if some one has offered all 5 for £700 in 5 days i would be asking some questions as how they can fit it all in to 5 days, i dont think its possible to do that be carfull,,,,

Thats exactly what i thought i didnt want to pay £700 to get told its all a load of mickey mouse there was a training package at this colledge £3500 + vat andnwas cs30/31/31/38/39 andni also think it included rigging stump grinder and a few others just looks like i need to start saving up after christmas and try get my qualifications done cheers for the advice everyone

[drinksloe]

Just make sure u get NPTC tickets, possibly the cheap course is omething different.

NPTC are recognised by everybody, some forestry companies don't recognise lantra etc

 

But 1 hell of a lot to cram into 5 days, simply not possible

 

 

[Jwoodgardenmaintenance]

I've been on the phone to the trainer today and the qualifications are ECC1 & ECC2 anyone heard of these before? 

[Mark Wileman]

That's the european chainsaw certificate. I think most UK firms would prefer NPTC/LANTRA qualifications, although the syllabus looks similar.

[spuddog0507]

39 minutes ago, Jwoodgardenmaintenance said:

I've been on the phone to the trainer today and the qualifications are ECC1 & ECC2 anyone heard of these before? 

hi never heard of that qualification number, its not NPTC or lantera so what organisation is doing all that training and ascessing for £700 ? be carefull