Chainsaw
Chainsaw training at a glance...
We can deliver Lantra Awards or City & Guilds/NPTC accredited chainsaw training and qualifications to suit your requirements. Our training centre, Morton Park, is purpose built to deliver maintenance and cross cutting training, and we have access to woodland sites throughout Yorkshire for felling and aerial units.
Ground Units
Our chainsaw maintenance and cross-cutting course will provide you with the appropriate techniques and safety guidelines to ensure that you are not only confident when using a chainsaw but also aware of relevant health and safety guidelines making sure you stay protected.
Our Felling Small Trees up to 380mm (15″) course will provide you with the appropriate techniques and safety guidelines to ensure that you are not only confident when using a chainsaw but also aware of relevant health and safety guidelines ensuring that you stay protected.
Our chainsaw maintenance, cross-cutting and felling up to 380mm (15″) course will provide you with the appropriate techniques and safety guidelines to ensure that you are not only confident when using a chainsaw but also aware of relevant health and safety guidelines making sure you stay protected.
Our Felling Trees over 380mm (15″) course will provide you with the appropriate techniques and safety guidelines to ensure that you are not only confident when using a chainsaw but also aware of relevant health and safety guidelines making sure you stay protected.
Our individual windblown trees course will provide you with the opportunity to practise and update your skills, appropriate techniques and safety guidelines required in order to ensure that you are not only confident when using a chainsaw but also aware of the relevant health and safety guidelines in relation to dealing with uprooted and windblown trees.
Winches are versatile pieces of equipment making them valuable tools within many different sectors.
It is important when using a tractor mounted or hand winch to fell trees that it is done correctly so to ensure that accidents do not happen, so gaining the relevant training is invaluable.
Individuals who operate ground working tasks as part of their work in arboriculture, forestry, or other industries. It will provide the individual with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to carry out arboricultural ground worker tasks, e.g., preparing equipment, setting equipment, and supporting aerial workers on site.
Our combined Chainsaw Maintenance, Cross-cutting and Basic Felling up to 200mm training course is accredited by Lantra and you will gain a certificate of competence from this course. It provides you with the appropriate techniques and safety guidelines to ensure that you are confident when using a chainsaw and felling small trees up to 200mm diameter and that you are aware of the current health and safety guidelines, making sure you stay protected.
Our refresher modules covering ground based forestry & arboricultural operations will refresh operators with the appropriate techniques and underpinning knowledge to ensure that they continue to be confident when working within forestry, arboriculture or allied industries.
Our Powered Pole Pruner course will provide you with the appropriate techniques and safety guidelines to ensure that you are not only confident when using a powered pole pruner but also aware of relevant health and safety guidelines making sure you stay protected.
Aerial Units
Tree work can be very dangerous, and it is essential that you have training in order to ensure that you are fully protected, and aware of all the safety issues. Our basic tree climbing and aerial rescue course will provide you with key information and practical guidance so that you are able to work safely and securely in the trees.
Our use of a chainsaw from a rope and harness course will provide you with the appropriate techniques and safety guidelines to ensure that you are comfortable when using a chainsaw in a tree and aware of relevant health and safety guidelines.
Tree work can be very dangerous, and it is essential that you have training in order to ensure that you are fully protected, and aware of all the safety issues. Our basic tree climbing, aerial rescue and use of a chainsaw from rope and harness course will provide you with key information and practical guidance so that you are able to work safely and securely in the trees whilst using a chainsaw.
Working at height with a chainsaw can be dangerous, so it is essential that operators have the confidence and expertise in order to avoid any accidents.
Our Use of a Chainsaw from a mobile elevated work platform (MEWP) course will provide you with the appropriate techniques and safety guidelines to ensure that you are confident at height whilst using a chainsaw, and make you aware of the relevant health and safety guidelines ensuring that you stay protected.
Aerial Tree Pruning requires you to climb trees and use relevant ropes and harness, along with a chainsaw, in order to carry out pruning operations. This training will provide the individual with the knowledge, understanding and skills required to carry out aerial tree pruning safely and to industry standards in line with current legislation.
This training covers the knowledge and skills involved with the removal of sections from a tree crown under the control of rope rigging and lifting gear. The work will be carried out by an operator with significant experience of arboriculture operations and chainsaw operations in a canopy. You will carry out a tree hazard and a ‘working at height’ assessment to determine if the operative is safe to perform the work and to determine the safest and most efficient access method.
Contact Morton Training
If you are unable to find the course that you are looking for or you require further information, please contact us today and we will be more than happy to help.
- Morton Park, Drain Lane, Holme on Spalding Moor, YO43 4DG
- 01430 860 057
- info@mortontraining.co.uk
