NPTC Final draft Assessment Schedules now available

[bob]

Problem seems to be, the trainers want a minimum of 4 students on the course to make it viable. They then need a couple of trees each to carry out training, then at least one more each to do the assessment.

 

Suddenly you need a minimum of 12 trees to carry out the the ticket, within a set area for such training center.

 

Not many centers can offer such high numbers of "difficult" trees.

 

i have put lads from work for the assessments when we thought they were ready and basically felled trees on our jobs

although sometimes finding a suitable job is not as easy as it sounds

but always managed

[18 stoner]

So are you saying the workplace was the training and you just put them in for the assessment when a relivant tree job came up Bob?

[Yorkshireman]

thats what we do in many cases , where better to learn than at work, in so far as the supervisor & candidate are capable

 

equally you can approach an independant external tutor pay them direct & then just book an assessment.

[Tree cutter Stu]

CS 48 – Use of Powered Pole Pruners

 

is that a new ticket seems abit of a funny one

[Arbocop]

not sure rumours were for highway guys and railway guys ect so they could clear fallen trees and branches without having to do shed loads of courses for things they would not need

but i may be wrong

 

 

 

hello guys n gals hope you all well

 

bob is pretty much on the money with what he has said, it has not been let out fully yet as it is being passed arround interested parties hse verifiers the SSC and NHTA etal to make sure it does the best for what it is intended, needless to say if you have 34 and 35 it wwould be largly unnessary

 

as for 33 there are very few of us that do the award, the PROPOSED change will see little difefrance for those that haev it as most peole have done 33 on big old minging trees already,

 

we do about one 33 (current form) a year and the problem is not usually numbers of peole but as said numbers of trees you do need about 12 to 20 trees whitch is a lot, the last one we ran was in thetford forest on some big horrible old poplars that was an education for all of them and in truth me too (there were some real real bad boys!!!!)

 

33 will be ineresting in the new form and 50 rather good allrounder ,

 

lets see

 

cheers

 

kevin