Chain saw course [CS30??]

[Haironyourchest]

2 hours ago, john87 said:

Ha ha ha!!

 

You know these course things, is there any paperwork or do you just do things?? If they ask you questions, how do they know you are not cheating and just saying what the other bloke said??

 

john..

 

The first day of the course is all the industrial legal stuff, PUWER, environmental, H&S reports, how to do risk assessments etc.

 

You can download the current NTPC course material for your course (don't know where but should be easy enough to find). You can't really fail the theory part, it's like the Safe Pass test, they hold your hand through it.

 

The felling part can be challenging though. Pie cut, danish cut, bore cut etc, cuts that most people don't know or use. You have to be able to remember them for the assessment and execute them well. I'd been messing around with saws for years before but never learned these cuts, it wasn't super hard but the muscle memory wasn't there. Moderately challenging.

 

Situational awareness is taught. Always look around for co-workers standing too close, look up for widowmakers, snap the chain break when repositioning, etc. All good practice and worth taking on board.

 

You won't have to strip a saw in the field (more likely a forestry plantation). Maybe change a chain.

 

Those courses are damn expensive, and have the potential to be quite enjoyable. You should do the course, just for kicks, and write up a report here for our edification.

 

 

 

 

[Bolt]

11 minutes ago, Haironyourchest said:

 

The first day of the course is all the industrial legal stuff, PUWER, environmental, H&S reports, how to do risk assessments etc.

 

You can download the current NTPC course material for your course (don't know where but should be easy enough to find). You can't really fail the theory part, it's like the Safe Pass test, they hold your hand through it.

 

The felling part can be challenging though. Pie cut, danish cut, bore cut etc, cuts that most people don't know or use. You have to be able to remember them for the assessment and execute them well. I'd been messing around with saws for years before but never learned these cuts, it wasn't super hard but the muscle memory wasn't there. Moderately challenging.

 

Situational awareness is taught. Always look around for co-workers standing too close, look up for widowmakers, snap the chain break when repositioning, etc. All good practice and worth taking on board.

 

You won't have to strip a saw in the field (more likely a forestry plantation). Maybe change a chain.

 

Those courses are damn expensive, and have the potential to be quite enjoyable. You should do the course, just for kicks, and write up a report here for our edification.

 

 

 

 

 

‘CS30’ is chainsaw maintenance (and a touch of cross cutting).  Most providers generally organise this in a workshop with decent lighting, a roof, work benches, tools and possibly even a compressor.

 

It is most unlikely there will be any tree felling.

[Joe Newton]

On the bright side I doubt you'll notice that insufferable twat who knows it all better than the trainers. You know, there's usually one on every course. 

[Brushcutter]

Milwaukee do a cordless compressor. Surely the purchase of this will allow the cleaning of saws in fields, workshop and on the tailgates of pickup trucks. 

[Will C]

33 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

On the bright side i don't you'll notice that insufferable twat who knows it all better than the trainers. You know, there's usually one on every course. 

Normally with a clean saw they don’t want to touch or get dirty!

[Stere]

Sounds like a worry over nothing

 

I thought cs30 and cs31 was nomally done together?

 

When i did it the c30 bit took about 30mins?

 

 

[Joe Newton]

17 minutes ago, Stere said:

Sounds like a worry over nothing

 

I thought cs30 and cs31 was nomally done together?

 

When i did it the c30 bit took about 30mins?

 

 

30 mins to fully strip and rebuild a saw in the middle of a field with only basic tools? Ambitious

[topchippyles]

7 minutes ago, Joe Newton said:

30 mins to fully strip and rebuild a saw in the middle of a field with only basic tools? Ambitious

20 minutes in Wales real men.

[Joe Newton]

1 minute ago, topchippyles said:

20 minutes in Wales real men.

Assuming there are no sheep in the field. 

[Dan Maynard]

31 minutes ago, Stere said:

When i did it the c30 bit took about 30mins?

30 seconds learning to sharpen.