Hi all,
This is my first post here, having joined today. I am pretty much on the scrounge for advice and opinions, although I will certainly endeavour to add to general conversation to.
I am currently Serving in the Armed Forces and due to leave in the near future, I am looking into resettlement courses and like the idea of Arboriculture as a future career, hopefully a small business of my own. I have limited experience of the field, I have as a younger man worked in soft and hard landscaping, this included some tree work but was very limited, and I don't believe it complied with all the relevant requirements of today.
So I have identified a training provider who offer the following courses, the MOD will pay for all but a couple of hundred pounds of. It's nearly £3000 worth of courses and I am more than happy to use some of the govts money on something for me for a change.
What I would be interested in knowing is:
How useful are the below course?
Do these courses equip you sufficiently?
Would an employer consider these sufficient?
Is the trade saturated with qualified people?
Is work reasonably easy to come by?
As a newbie I would welcome option and debate on the subject of someone entering this trade at present. So please feel free to fire away.
Level 2 Award in Chainsaw Maintenance, Crosscutting, Fell & Process Trees Up to 380mm
• Level 2 Award in Access a Tree Using a Rope & Harness
• Level 3 Award in Aerial Tree Rescue Operations
• Level 3 Award in Aerial Cutting of Trees With a Chainsaw Using Free Fall Techniques
• Level 3 Award in Preparing & Agreeing Emergency Treework Operations
• Level 3 Award in Emergency Tree Work Operations
• Level 3 Award in Enterprise & Entrepreneurship
The courses are delivered by a provider on this forum, I by no means wish to question their courses, I am simply researching for ideas.
Thanks