Woodchipper LANTRA course

[Arran Turner]

Evening Folks

 

Got mine in mid feb and was just wondering what the one day consists of and also if there is an assessment at the end of the day?

 

Thanks

 

Arran

[Littletree]

Hi there I did mine as any work done on rail / motorways you need a ticket for the chipper and every thing you use . It was a one day course and it's continues assessment this consists of demonstrating safe chipper use from the correct PPE to standing side on to feed it stopping starting it They watch each person have a turn . And tell you if there is any problems

 

Part of the day looks at how a chipper works and the different components of it

 

Hope that helps littletree:thumbup:

[Arran Turner]

Hi there I did mine as any work done on rail / motorways you need a ticket for the chipper and every thing you use . It was a one day course and it's continues assessment this consists of demonstrating safe chipper use from the correct PPE to standing side on to feed it stopping starting it They watch each person have a turn . And tell you if there is any problems

 

Part of the day looks at how a chipper works and the different components of it

 

Hope that helps littletree:thumbup:

 

Thats brilliant thank you, just wondering do many people fail it? or is it a hard one to fail?

 

Arran

[Gareth Dalzell]

Take a look at the NPTC schedule for it. It may be similar and would give you an idea of their requirements. I assess woodchipper for the NPTC ticket, it goes into different types of cutting mechanism, correct operator position, usual pre-start checks, positioning and set-up etc.

[Littletree]

Thats brilliant thank you, just wondering do many people fail it? or is it a hard one to fail?

 

Arran

 

Hi there to fail this one you would have to be really stupid . You could fail it if you demonstrated unsafe operation ie just kept on putting body hands arms into the chipper ,after being shown safe use . The same with removing the keys before opening it up to remove a blockage

 

Just demonstrate what the instructor teaches you and you will have no problem .

 

All the best littletree:thumbup:

[arbogrunt]

ditto..make sure you read the schedule. Its one of those courses that you think 'is this really necessary?', but at the end of the day, if it makes you more aware of where you stand, how you operated and maintain etc, its worth doing. Some of the things I've seen chipper operators do makes my hair stand on end!.

[Arran Turner]

ditto..make sure you read the schedule. Its one of those courses that you think 'is this really necessary?', but at the end of the day, if it makes you more aware of where you stand, how you operated and maintain etc, its worth doing. Some of the things I've seen chipper operators do makes my hair stand on end!.

 

Will do and thank you folks

Arran