Forwarders

[Ryantree]

With most of the work in forestry these days in harvesters and forwards. What are the opportunitys in getting employmed in this sector.

As I'm aware of there are no colleges in the UK supporting courses just 2-3 days training which I don't think would be of big benefit as many jobs require awful lot of experience.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

With most of the work in forestry these days in harvesters and forwards. What are the opportunitys in getting employmed in this sector.

As I'm aware of there are no colleges in the UK supporting courses just 2-3 days training which I don't think would be of big benefit as many jobs require awful lot of experience.

 

If Barony College survives (the traumatic potential relocation), then there is a Forest machine college in the Scottish borders.

 

Now is a bad time (industry wise) to be trying to find someone looking to take on a trainee forwarder driver; hopefully global economic factors will swing into favour soon.

 

[Ryantree]

Many thanks

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

My answer was I'm sure not definitive, just part of the melting pot. Start by the stack, just moving the crane, then some logs from bunk to stack and back again. Get to know the machine before you put it in the cover and have to quickly pick through the different products... Took me 2 years to get half decent and that's not even on mini levers.

[Stefan Palokangas]

I worked this machines in Sweden, depends who you are how fast you learn. to learn to operate the crane and machine was easy for me, but it's more to it then just that.

With common sense you can go very far.

[Brushcutter]

With most of the work in forestry these days in harvesters and forwards. What are the opportunitys in getting employmed in this sector.

As I'm aware of there are no colleges in the UK supporting courses just 2-3 days training which I don't think would be of big benefit as many jobs require awful lot of experience.

 

Have a look at training in Sweden. They tend to run international courses once a years for a few months.

 

You might be better off finding someone with a valtra/botex set up to let you have a go to learn. They are slow and forgiving unlike the purpose built that have lightening fast cranes. You'll find that you'll need 6 months to a year to get fairly proficient with the crane and stacking. To be able to do all the things that make a good forwarder driver and multi brand forwarder driver will take you a couple of years. Oh and that's doing the crappy forwarder driver hours too.