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Use a Silky if your worried, its amazing what they can get through.
you dont need a license to operate a chainsaw. your PLI might be invalid as a consequence so you wont be covered should you be the cause of an accident. im not saying that that is right or wrong..considering that you need a license to go fishing but that is the law according to the health and safety executive website.
if youre dealing with honey fungus infected trees you might want to dig them out anyway as it spreads from the roots and then underground to the next nearest tree or shrub.
AFAG 805 defines the answer: www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/afag805.pdf
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg317.pdf:
‘All workers who use a chainsaw should be competent to do so. Before using a chainsaw to carry out work on or in a tree, a worker should have received appropriate training and obtained a relevant certificate of competence or national competence award, unless they are undergoing such training and are adequately supervised. However, in the agricultural sector, this requirement only applies to first-time users of a chainsaw.’
This means everyone working with chainsaws on or in trees should hold such a certificate or award unless:
-it is being done as part of agricultural operations (eg hedging, clearing fallen branches, pruning trees to maintain clearance for machines); and
- the work is being done by the occupier or their employees; and
- they have used a chainsaw before 5 December 1998.
In any case, operators using chainsaws for any task in agriculture or any other industry must be competent under PUWER 98.
See AFAG leaflet 805 for guidance on the level of training and certification appropriate for tree work."
i had read that already. now i wonder why the important part of it is closed in these quote/apostrophe marks..? the way it is worded too is obviously meant to make you believe a certain something. i think the keyword here is >should< ...as one should, though it doesnt say that you have too. i think someone on the forum recently described how there cs instructor said that they didnt legally need to be assessed having completed 2 chain saw courses. i think the terminology would be more definitive than the way it has been written were a certificate a legal requirement. im sure that if you needed a licence to operate a vacuum cleaner that you would have to produce it upon purchase-whether you were using it commercially or domestically. ..according to this leaflet you dont even have to check if one of your employees has a psychotic lust for chopping off heads before letting them loose with a chainsaw!..let alone have a certificate..although it is possible to buy a car without having a licence.. i think that its been worded to mislead.
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