PTI course next week, touching cloth.

[Pete Hart]

I suppose it depends on the tree eh?

If you're going to leave a stump that's infested with allsorts, you would need to specify your recommendations are to remove it and how it would be done?

 

I assume you're not going to get marked down for being as detailed as possible, but I suppose it depends on the trainer/assessor?

 

We were warned that we would/could be marked down for not being detailed enough.

[ChrisG]

How long do you get for each tree on assessment?

[Pete Hart]

I did hear whilst on the assesment that strictly speaking there is a limit for all three elements combined but we had more than ample time to carry out the inspection, complete the exam and do the fungi ident. Put it this way, at no point did I feel rushed.

[ben lightfoot]

I think it's hour and half for two trees and four fungi so plenty of time

[Matthew Corran]

We had a time limit of 1 hr for the 20 questions, 40 mins for 2 tree inspections, and I think it was 30 mins for the four fungal indents.

[Matthew Corran]

Just done mine last week with Chris Simpson, I thought he did a really good job and I learnt lots, don't know if I have passed yet tho! Hopefully get the results on Monday!

 

There is a long list of books you should take with you but I found the Arb associations fungi on trees the best book for all the fungi, I put little post it's with all the colonisation strategies, rot type and relevant info on for quick reference

 

A good tree id book, and most of the info was all in the workbook provided on the course, and that was all you needed.

[ChrisG]

Cheers Matthew!

[ben lightfoot]

How did it go?

[ChrisG]

Fantastic course, learned loads and Guy Watson is a top teacher/all round nice chap.

 

A lot of the questions for the theory were worded quite ambiguously I felt, or maybe I was looking into them too much. I don't feel confident about passing to be honest, but I always over analyse these things and get a bit overloaded with info, so let see.

 

Would recommend it to anybody as I got a lot out of it. I must admit that there are elements of the course which could be reviewed, as some subject matter, just wasn't relevant for me, but I suppose LANTRA have to cover a lot of career types etc. I felt the tools used for decay detection section and the health and safety part could be substituted with more industry relevant information, But that's just my opinion, don't let it put you off!

 

Overall a quite hard course though, but then again, it is a professional course.

[ChrisG]

Just found out I failed on the theory side. GUTTED!

Doesn't surprise me though to be honest as I flapped a bit on the exam and, well read above, need to learn how to spue out Matheck and Shigo word for word in order to get through it.

 

Did well on the inspections and Fungi though, so there's a positive

 

Best get my head in the books for next time!