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ive intend on booking my cs31 as soon as fund allow me too, i spoke to my instructor at college and he said that winching is now involved in the assessment or atleast knowledge of winching is needed. does anyone know if this is now part of the criteria, if so what sort of things do i need to know about or is it still yet to be put into the assessment?

 

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You should've done your felling training in longleat woods, you would have got all the winch practice you could ask for! The fact that the trees were so densely packed (and that we were amateurs) means they were hung up a fair few of times a day. :P

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What you're talking about is included in the new revised CS31 unit. These units, as far as I'm aware, go live and are optional in Nov '09 and must be used from Jan '10.

 

Use of a winch is not essential - if you get the tree down successfully without one then you won't be assessed on winch use - but if you do need to use one to get your hung-up tree down then you will be assessed on it.

 

There are a few other changes in addition... make sure that you and your instructor both know which unit you are to be assessed on.

 

My advice would be to do the assessment right away so that you are assessed on the old schedule - the actual qualification remains the same.

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at the moment no winching in CS31 though 1st of November there are new assessment schedules which may change that.

No one has seen the final drafts yet so not sure.

So it depends what alterations they make and when you book your assessment

As it stands any candidate registering before the 31/12/09 can do the existing assessment within a 2 yr period

Hope that clears that up

Cheers

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at the moment no winching in CS31 though 1st of November there are new assessment schedules which may change that.

No one has seen the final drafts yet so not sure.

So it depends what alterations they make and when you book your assessment

As it stands any candidate registering before the 31/12/09 can do the existing assessment within a 2 yr period

Hope that clears that up

Cheers

 

Ageed, you have 2 yrs to take the assessment if registered before 31st Dec.

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Ageed, you have 2 yrs to take the assessment if registered before 31st Dec.

 

So if I did the CS31 course this summer, I have 2 years to take the exam before I have to know about HOW to winch? Currently trying to organise any work to give me the experience to pass (shameless self advert LOL)

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