Daft Question Maybe?..

[CJM]

That's news to me. What's a climbing ticket? I did my CS38 years ago without any other tickets. Apart from airial rescue the weeks course coverd basic climbing technique aswell as basic knots etc. Then did my CS30/31/32 then 39.

 

I did a refresher 2 years ago and my cs38 changed to those units on my card

[quiffdo]

They have changed all the tickets into units now i.e. chainsaw cross cutting and maintenance is something like 202 and 203 but you still need to pass both to pass the whole thing.

[5 shires]

I did a refresher 2 years ago and my cs38 changed to those units on my card

 

I didn't know that a CLIMBING TICKET was intergrated with a AIRIAL RESCUE TICKET at the time. Just climbe'd and did airial rescue,passed'do and moved on.

[CJM]

I didn't know that a CLIMBING TICKET was intergrated with a AIRIAL RESCUE TICKET at the time. Just climbe'd and did airial rescue,passed'do and moved on.

 

me too I remember doing mine in 1 go don't know why they changed it. They've also removed 'Felling large trees' so medium trees covers you for everything over the Small tree unit.

 

I try not to get involved with NPTC stuff, I let my employers sort that out for me

[Mat]

......... 'course, you could check out the City and Guilds/NPTC website and cut through the usual 'my mate from the pub reckons' / 'when aah did it ten year ago' confusion .

 

NPTC barely exists any more (its now City and Guilds).

 

and

 

CS unit are soooooo long gone.

 

 

 

Bearing that in mind, everyone is right..... kindof.....

 

You can do Tree Climbing...

https://www.nptc.org.uk/qualificationschemedetail.aspx?id=337

 

Then you can do Aerial Rescue...

https://www.nptc.org.uk/qualificationschemedetail.aspx?id=348

 

OR

you can do Tree Climbing and Aerial Rescue combined

https://www.nptc.org.uk/qualificationschemedetail.aspx?id=356

 

Lantra do IDENTICAL assessments (identical: as in exactly the same and totally interchangeable).

 

If you do them separate:

1) you must do the tree climbing before aerial rescue.

2) if you fail the aerial rescue having passed the tree climbing, you dont have to resit the entire assessment.

 

Cheers.

Edited January 31, 2015 by Mat

[5 shires]

......... 'course, you could check out the City and Guilds/NPTC website and cut through the usual 'my mate from the pub reckons' / 'when aah did it ten year ago' confusion .

 

NPTC barely exists any more (its now City and Guilds).

 

and

 

CS unit are soooooo long gone.

 

 

 

Bearing that in mind, everyone is right..... kindof.....

 

You can do Tree Climbing...

https://www.nptc.org.uk/qualificationschemedetail.aspx?id=337

 

Then you can do Aerial Rescue...

https://www.nptc.org.uk/qualificationschemedetail.aspx?id=348

 

OR

you can do Tree Climbing and Aerial Rescue combined

https://www.nptc.org.uk/qualificationschemedetail.aspx?id=356

 

Lantra do IDENTICAL assessments (identical: as in exactly the same and totally interchangeable).

 

If you do them separate:

1) you must do the tree climbing before aerial rescue.

2) if you fail the aerial rescue having passed the tree climbing, you dont have to resit the entire assessment.

 

Cheers.

 

Glad we sort'd that out then. What's next?

[Mat]

Glad we sort'd that out then. What's next?

 

sorry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Gnome]

First off congrats on passing your recent tickets. Been interesting reading your posts.

 

I would reckon you might find it hard to book training and a test for the two parts individually as most (if not all) will combine them as Climb trees and Perform aerial rescue.

 

I think I get where you are coming from as working on the ground with the ability to rescue a climber if the unfortunate occurs.

 

I did mine a few months back and to give you an idea for the test:

 

Risk assessment, Checked all the gear then I climbed a pole with spikes came down the next chap went up and then I rescued him. Then I went back up and he rescued me. We then went on to an open branched tree. I went up did a couple of branch walks until the assessor was happy then the other chap came up and rescued me. Then he went up branch walked and I rescued him. All the while we were getting asked questions. A bit more to it obviously.

 

I hope that gives you a better idea why it would be important to demonstrate competence in both climbing and aerial rescue.

 

Put it this way if you were a climber and needed rescuing, would you want someone who is not competent at climbing being the one to bring you down?

 

You could also liken it to cs30 maintenence AND crosscutting. you need the understanding of both of these to cut wood at your work.

[IanW]

why the F.... do things get over complicated?

[5 shires]

why the F.... do things get over complicated?

 

It's all about the MONEY. not like the good old days.