NPTC/LANTRA assessment failures

[AHPP]

I fear there won't be enough data to answer this properly but let's try. Which assessors have you witnessed failing a candidate (you or someone else on your assessment)? Just name the institution/assessor or explain more if you want. 

 

More than one ticket, more than one institution etc, brief explainer please.

 

Nobody will read anything into only naming and not explaining so nobody needs to fear ridicule for failing a course.

Edited 19 hours ago by AHPP

[raafbeard]

Strange post..

[AHPP]

Just play along.

[Mark Bolam]

On my basic chainsaw course 30/31 there were 4 candidates being assessed.

2 were older blokes who were whingeing throughout about how ‘they’d been doing it for years and didn’t need a stupid bit of paper, they knew it all, blah, blah blah.’

They were both failed after the workshop section, and didn’t make it outside to do any cutting.

 

That was in Newcastle.

A long time ago.

[Tree monkey 1682]

I was failed at a college ,

Loads of experiance passed all the tree felling assessments  bar a hung up tree...got the tree hung up, couldn't get it down using approved techniques ,instead of the assessor taking over the situation ,I was told to get a forwarder -forwarder couldn't get the tree down .. so i failed on that element. 

Shouldn't of been a failure but the assessor was known to be a knob.

What should of happend was the assessor should have taken over the situation and got the tree down.

The were alot of assesors back then that didnt like a confident experienced  18 Yr old  back then 

 

Edited 1 hour ago by Tree monkey 1682

[5thelement]

1 hour ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

I was failed at Sparsholt college ,

Loads of experiance passed all the tree felling assessments  bar a hung up tree...got the tree hung up, couldn't get it down using approved techniques ,instead of the assessor taking over the situation ,I was told to get a forwarder -forwarder couldn't get the tree down .. so i failed on that element. 

Shouldn't of been a failure but the assessor was known to be a knob.

What should of happend was the assessor should have taken over the situation and got the tree down.

The were alot of assesors back then that didnt like a confident experienced  18 Yr old  back then 

 

What size trees where these when a forwarder couldn’t get it down? 😂

[5thelement]

12 hours ago, AHPP said:

I fear there won't be enough data to answer this properly but let's try. Which assessors have you witnessed failing a candidate (you or someone else on your assessment)? Just name the institution/assessor or explain more if you want. 

 

More than one ticket, more than one institution etc, brief explainer please.

 

Nobody will read anything into only naming and not explaining so nobody needs to fear ridicule for failing a course.

This thread is going to quickly escalate into bullshittery and bollox of the highest order, largely made up of nonsense and things that never happened, but good luck with the ‘data’.😂

[Mark Bolam]

As an aside I passed, but probably shouldn’t have.

I was safe enough, but very, very green.

 

I think the assessor passed me because he was worried we’d both get hypothermia, I was that slow.

 

He did warn me I had a LOT to learn.

[Mark Bolam]

16 minutes ago, 5thelement said:

What size trees where these when a forwarder couldn’t get it down? 😂

 

It was a 400’ mahogany.

15’ butt.

[5thelement]

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.