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Working with chainsaws is a highly skilled and rewarding work.

It can also be very dangerous.

in order to keep your skills and knowledge up to date, refresher training is recommended every three to five years.

The finer details

Our ground-based chainsaw refresher course is a modular approach to the need to refresh skills.

Instead of booking multiple courses and repeating sections of the training over and over again the Lantra course allows you to select the modules that are appropriate to you and bundle them together into one package.

Who should attend?

People who work in; Agriculture, Horticulture, Woodland industries, Local Authorities, Conservation, Construction, Land-based industries.

What will be covered?

The Health & safety module is mandatory (unless equivalent has already been achieved) you can then select from the following:

  • Safety, Health & Welfare (mandatory)
  • Biosecurity
  • Chainsaw/Small Engine Maintenance
  • Felling up to 200mm
  • Felling up to 380mm*
  • Felling over 380mm
  • Branch Removal – Snedding & Delimbing
  • Cross-Cutting
  • Hung Up Trees Using Hand Tools
  • Hand Winching
  • Powered Pole Pruner.

* Please note this module only contains information relevant for felling trees between 200mm – 380mm, for techniques beneath this diameter please see refer to module ‘felling trees up to 200mm’.

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