Chainsaw Tickets

[JTP]

Good morning all

 

I am looking to get a few chainsaw tickets at the start of the new year, I am a time served plant mechanic, servicing and maintaining a wide range of plant equipment include forestry machinery, ATVs etc. I have been using chainsaws for year for my own use collecting firewood etc. I am now getting asked more and more about tree work but always shy away from these jobs due to not having any tickets.

 

I am based in Glenrothes, Scotland, if anyone can point me in the right direction as to what tickets I need please, any help would be much appreciated.

I am bouncing between working offshore and still running my mobile plant maintenance business during my time off from offshore, if I can get more tree work then I would leave the offshore game and go at it full time if I could, eventually working my way to tree climbing work.

 

Cheers

Jamie 

[Acerforestry]

If you intend to start in forestry / hand cutting, bare minimum for most sites is CS30 / 31 (chainsaw maintenance, cross cutting and small felling, I think they now use different numbers in relation to tickets), plus first aid for forestry. That will get you statrted, shop around a little for prices as they vary a fair deal. Good luck