timberfeller
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hi yes i would like to think so as been involved with utility arb tickets as well as recently as 2011 which will need refresh in 2014 . if i refresh my standard tickets of which i have 17 . im sure it will be by an assesor with less exp than myself . which just doesnt seem fair . the trainer assesors i know of are people who do it for easy money and dont do chainsaw work day in and day out themselfs. took me days last year to get a new lad to stop putting the back cut in below the front cut on his trees . i actualy had to show him a book to prove he was wrong as he swore blind thats what he was shown at the course . obviously he couldnt of been . but who on earth passed him out on his assesment . and thats true.
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been cutting 25 years now and have more than a few tickets myself . it used to be years ago you would stack for a cutter for weeks or more and you learnt a lot by watching the skill before you . slowly you took to a bit of chainsaw work under the wing of your teacher and mate . this to me seems to work well as its gradual that you do more and more skilled tasks . then one day it all clicks and you are on your own , to improve your own skill level . now i see lads with 1 week crash course training mostly cs30 cs31 , who come to work as cutters , its shocking what they do and dont know , they are poorly trained and i cant see how after 1 week with a saw they are safe to crack on , the whole chainsaw training scheme seems rushed and flawed , just my thoughts . when i train a newbe i start by telling them to forget everything they were taught at colledge. they all to a t say they learn more in one day than what they have been shown fullstop
