NPTC certs changed?

[Stephen Blair]

(It really bets under my skin when folks come out of college holding a climb with saw cert and they believe they are a tree surgeon!)

 

 

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I think this is down to the individual and their age.

 

When I got my felling ticket at 19, I chucked my green keepers job and swaggered into the woods, with all the gear and no idea:001_rolleyes:

I was almost in tears the first day and hated every other before I chucked it after 5 weeks:blushing:

 

It took 3 years of the big bad world to toughen me up and when I got a shot at a real climbing job, I was under no illusions and I had wanted it so badly as i had felt so stupid for those inbetween years as I had had to return home with my tail between my legs.

 

There will always be change in paperwork, that's the paperwork people doing there bit, the job will always be the same though,

[Quickthorn]

 

I really dislike the term "licence" when used for saw tickets.

 

Same here. A licence is something that's handed out by some sort of authority to give you permission to do something you wouldn't be allowed to do otherwise (like a driving licence or felling licence). Neither NPTC or LANTRA have any authority over anything, as far as I know, so calling a CoC a "licence" is a bit sly, IMO.

[Johny Walker]

well its just all pc & keeping planks busy & so have some worth in ther sad life