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NPTC chainsaw qualifications

Posted by Phil Voice on October 18, 2009 at 10:37am
The National Training Proficiency Council will release a new set of chainsaw qualifications on the 1st November 2009. If you are trained in the use of chainsaws or you use chainsaws for your work, then you will need to understand your obligations.
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    Phil Voice October 18, 2009 at 11:58am
    Hi Dan

    There is nothing on the NPTC site (it isn't well run) at the moment - link to NPTC here

    Previous info on chainsaw dated 17th July 2009 - Chainsaw Update- Final draft Assessment Schedules now available
  • Lawncare-4u.co.uk October 18, 2009 at 3:39pm
    £385 4 day course cs30+31

    £190 for 1 day assesment


    where are you as i did mine in the summer @ wales it was fantastic !
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    Paul @ Ashgate Garden Care October 18, 2009 at 7:34pm
    I don't know where you are in Leicestershire, but Derby College do chainsaw training courses.

    Dan Tarleton MSc, BSc (Hons) said:
    Leicestershire

    Robin Ainsworth said:
    £385 4 day course cs30+31

    £190 for 1 day assesment


    where are you as i did mine in the summer @ wales it was fantastic !
  • Kieran Ray October 18, 2009 at 8:48pm
    moulton colege in Northampton do them too. Only half hour down the road from you!
  • Kieran Ray October 18, 2009 at 8:53pm
    Iv got to get cross cutting and small felling! I didint think about subsidising!

    Dan Tarleton MSc, BSc (Hons) said:
    Ta. Wating to see if i can get funding or subsidy. Brooksby is my nearest actually.

    Kieran Ray said:
    moulton colege in Northampton do them too. Only half hour down the road from you!
  • Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt October 19, 2009 at 7:44pm
    What entitles one to subsidy and where from?
  • Lawncare-4u.co.uk October 20, 2009 at 12:40am
    ive not heard of much apart from - forestry teams paying half for workers.
  • Classic Gardens October 20, 2009 at 9:57am
    Did mine at myescough horticulturel collage also did tree rescue.
    Best course I have ever done we did it at Knowsley right next to the safari park. Up a tree on a frosty morning listening to lions roar it was surreal.
  • Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt October 20, 2009 at 10:54pm
    Go on... I'll keep it to myself...!!

    Dan Tarleton MSc, BSc (Hons) said:
    now...that would be telling...wink wink

    Neil Petrie BSc Landscape Mgt said:
    What entitles one to subsidy and where from?
  • Graeme @ BGS October 21, 2009 at 8:06am
    Nice to see that we all live by the ethos of Landscape Juice were we are an honest, considerate and helpful bunch of professionals. Always ready to share information and help one another out.

    Whilst I appreciate that at times due to competition it may be prudent to hold back on certain details surely an Email or PM to selective individuals to in-part the little golden nugget wouldn’t go amiss?
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