NPTC's do they need tightening/stricter assesment?

[Le Sanglier]

All a bit mischievous imo.

[Mozza]

There's hundreds of people out there that couldn't rescue properly. Loads of new guys I've worked with can't fell properly either, or use a chipper properly. Yet they've come out of college dripping in tickets thinking they're tree surgeons.

 

You'll never stop it, so why moan about it????

Edited February 21, 2013 by Steve Bullman
language.....you know better Mr Mozza

[treequip]

 

There's hundreds of people out there that couldn't rescue properly. Loads of new guys I've worked with can't fell properly either, or use a chipper properly. Yet they've come out of college dripping in tickets thinking they're tree surgeons.

 

You'll never stop it, so why moan about it????

 

Tell it like it is:thumbup1:

[Steve Bullman]

if you werent there its just gossip

 

[Mozza]

I wonder if Tony the Arb god, wears a cape as he types??

[jltree]

I wonder if Tony the Arb god, wears a cape as he types??

 

Mozza is right,,,

sick of employing lads who have more tickets than a raffle but unable to do simple climbing/felling jobs...

some assessors do just pass people when they should of failed[know this as fact] plus colleges getting lads who are on benefits being pushed through courses and colleges not wanting a bad reputation so passing them...

[Pete Mctree]

I wonder if Tony the Arb god, wears a cape as he types??

 

Probably his Y fronts over his chainsaw trousers too

[Joe Newton]

I have to say that when I first started work as a ground, despite having my 38, I doubt I would have been competent to rescue my climber if the need had arisen.

 

A couple of years on I'm pretty confident I'd be able to. Maybe not the way they taught me on my 38, but just, climb up, clip them in to you, come down.

 

I think a fair point to make is that HSE stipulates that the person should be "Competent". This doesn't always mean just having the ticket. First aid courses have to be refreshed periodically, and maybe so would arial rescue.

[3dogs]

when i passed my driving test i became a driving legend overnight you know:sneaky2:

[unimog 72]

just had lad working form me very slow climber poor cuts couldt shape or reduce been at it 4 years didnt have a clue how to sharpen a saw tried to cut sarcen stone in half got saw pinched cut in to chain with another saw then cut in to bar a product of a certian hampshire college