Tree Inspection Courses?

[David Humphries]

I did Lantra Pro Tree Insp. (level 3)

 

It was done at .... somewhere near reading.

 

I cant remember.

 

I come from a silviculture background with 12 years of arbwork behind me, I've read lots of books and I still found it challenging. I remember Guy Watson of the AA led the course.

 

Top fella is Guy!

He took my PTI at Merrist Wood last November.

Felt that he had a very good handle on every candidates individual needs.

[Log-ologist]

Yep Guy is a good bloke and he drives a battered landrover. I found it to be challenging , especially learning 20 or so fungi and their attributes in under 48 hours. It was great and I learnt a huge ammount from the others on the course too.

[cerneARB]

were did you find the lantra course log-oligist? Dou you have to be in the trade to do a level 3 course or can anyone do it?

[Log-ologist]

Cerne I get a mailshot from these guys http://www.landbasedtraining.co.uk/ The run a lot of courses. The PTI is attended by those with several years experience in arb. though estate managers and landscape architects attend they apparently have a high failiure rate due to lack of experience in the technical aspects.

[fifer2000]

HI, just new to Arbtalk.

I did LANTRA Professional Tree Survey and Inspection Recently, run by the Scottish Agric College. Thought it was vwell worth it.

[Steve Bullman]

welcome to the site

[andy goddard]

Does anyone know of any decent courses on tree hazard inspection. Sadly i cant do that part of my Arb course next year so i got to do it independantly Got to get out and do the work thing.

 

one of the boys i work with just done it (very hard) i think it was a lantra course , i will ask him for the address for u tommorrow when i see him i post it tommorrow eve

[andy goddard]

one of the boys i work with has just done it , i think it was with lantra (very hard) theres alot to do with ledgislation, fungi id, he told me theres a 70% fail rate ,when inspecting the trees 4 hazzards they had to give compass berrings what side on the tree there was a problem

[Paul Barton]

Indicating which side of the tree the hazard is on is pretty normal, no?

[John Hancock]

I've done the AA course, absolute bloody nightmare! You have to be really careful with your wording on the tree reports, and the fungi ID…...Jesus!! I've spent my whole working career being interested in fungi and their decay characteristics. Test day comes and laid before me were several desiccated examples that had no resemblance to the fungi I had ever seen! (In the real world of Arb)

 

It might have changed now as I suggested there should be a photo of an un-desiccated example next to the dried-up, shrivelled example on the table. Out there in the real world we see fungi in all states, live and dead and I feel the test should represent this.