OPEN Lantra Chainsaw Maintenance, Cross Cutting and Felling up to 200mm
OPEN Lantra Chainsaw Maintenance, Cross Cutting and Felling up to 200mm course
Description
Who is this course for?
- Novice and experienced chainsaw fellers
- Frequent and occasional chainsaw operators
- Those required to operate chainsaws for both cross cutting and felling to guide bar length
- Those working in roles within the forestry, agriculture, horticulture, woodland, local authorities and conservation sectors
- The course is designed to prepare candidates for independent assessment for Lantra Awards Licence to practice.
What are the course objectives?
- State and identify the necessary personal protective equipment required, report on its condition and locate the various standard marks
- State and identify the required health and safety features on a chainsaw
- Identify faults and defects on a chainsaw and cutting equipment, decide those fixable by the operator and those which need a service engineer’s attention
- Select and identify the correct tools to enable maintenance to be carried out
- Prepare the chainsaw for use with the correct fuel/oil mix and chain lubrication
- Start the chainsaw in a safe manner
- Carry out pre-cutting safety tests and note the procedures if these are failed
- State the possible hazards when using the chainsaw
- Cross cut timber to appropriate lengths
- Assess and explain the terms ‘tension’ and ‘compression’ in timber
- Adopt safe procedures to remove a trapped guide bar
- Stack and handle timber in a safe manner
- Organise site safety and state the precautions required
- Correctly assess the situation prior to free felling a straight open grown tree up to a maximum of 200mm diameter, with the aid of wedges and/or a felling leaver and enable the tree to fall in a chosen direction
- Remove limbs from a felled tree and cross cut, handle and stack timber in a safe and efficient manner
- Identify types of timber, potential hazards and stresses, correctly assess if timber is in compression or tension and select the appropriate technique to deal with the particular situation
- Take down hung up trees using hand tools
- Recognise situations where specialist help is required
Follow up courses
Please note that you complete this course you will be able to proceed to do the following qualification;
- Lantra Chainsaw Felling and Processing Trees up to 200mm course
Please note that if you complete this course you will NOT be able to proceed to do the following qualification;
- NPTC City and Guilds Chainsaw Felling and Processing Trees up to 380mm