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The last training course I did was in January, just over four weeks ago.

I updated my “Basic Chainsaw Maintenance and Cross Cutting” qualification by doing the two day Lantra course at Hartpury College, an agricultural college with university status.

I previously did the training in 1989, there’s a recommendation to update every four or five years, obviously I missed a few updates, but actually I did still have all the basic core skills and knowledge, but after thirty two years it was worthwhile updating and it was also worth it to get out and spend time with people from a different background that have a different outlook on life. Due to the nature of the course close supervision is required and so only four students are allowed on each course, the other three are all in their mid twenties, so I’m old enough to be their grandad, this course is the “core competence” training there’s a multitude of training courses to progress to the others are planning felling and tree climbing, I have actually booked a pole saw course next month, as I said to the lecturer, the other students and the guy from Lantra who was there assessing the training on behalf of Lantra, at my age I’m not planning to climb trees but there’s plenty I can do with two feet on the ground.

Prior to this training course I did the brush cutter course at the Royal Agricultural University Rural Innovation Centre near Cirencester and the hand held hedge cutter course in a Second World War asbestos Nissen hut on the edge of a former airfield in Somerset. Along the way I have trained alongside men and women who are self employed farmers and landscapers, work for the National Trust, Bristol Water, Network Rail contractors as well as volunteers working for charities.

When I talk about training with people working in agriculture, landscaping who are actually doing it they say they have really benefited from it, there are a lot of untrained people who will argue the toss that they don’t need training, but if you watch them working it is very easy to see that they have not been trained.

However I have not been so impressed with electrical training courses over the last few years, the 18th Edition qualification is barely fit for purpose, yesterday I drove over two hundred miles to sort out a combi boiler condensation pump, a guy went to change the pump on Friday and blew the fuse in the boiler supply and the fuse in the boiler itself. The root cause of all the problems was a kink in the discharge pipe in the cupboard under the sink, you would not believe how much trouble this has caused.

I was talking to the customer who is in his eighties whilst drinking a coffee and eating a hot cross bun, as you do. The basic gist of our conversation was that guys who proudly proclaim that they are qualified because they did an apprenticeship over forty years ago, but have not updated their qualifications since then and work in isolation on their own without having the benefit of working with others to gain knowledge and experience from their peers are not the people you want working in your home.

However, the biggest issues tend to be due to people not being prepared to actually say “I don’t know” and who don’t know their own limitations, the worst being those who don’t know enough to know what they don’t know.

The last training course I did was in January, just over four weeks ago.

I updated my “Basic Chainsaw Maintenance and Cross Cutting” qualification by doing the two day Lantra course at Hartpury College, an agricultural college with university status.

I previously did the training in 1989, there’s a recommendation to update every four or five years, obviously I missed a few updates, but actually I did still have all the basic core skills and knowledge, but after thirty two years it was worthwhile updating and it was also worth it to get out and spend time with people from a different background that have a different outlook on life. Due to the nature of the course close supervision is required and so only four students are allowed on each course, the other three are all in their mid twenties, so I’m old enough to be their grandad, this course is the “core competence” training there’s a multitude of training courses to progress to the others are planning felling and tree climbing, I have actually booked a pole saw course next month, as I said to the lecturer, the other students and the guy from Lantra who was there assessing the training on behalf of Lantra, at my age I’m not planning to climb trees but there’s plenty I can do with two feet on the ground.

Prior to this training course I did the brush cutter course at the Royal Agricultural University Rural Innovation Centre near Cirencester and the hand held hedge cutter course in a Second World War asbestos Nissen hut on the edge of a former airfield in Somerset. Along the way I have trained alongside men and women who are self employed farmers and landscapers, work for the National Trust, Bristol Water, Network Rail contractors as well as volunteers working for charities.

When I talk about training with people working in agriculture, landscaping who are actually doing it they say they have really benefited from it, there are a lot of untrained people who will argue the toss that they don’t need training, but if you watch them working it is very easy to see that they have not been trained.

However I have not been so impressed with electrical training courses over the last few years, the 18th Edition qualification is barely fit for purpose, yesterday I drove over two hundred miles to sort out a combi boiler condensation pump, a guy went to change the pump on Friday and blew the fuse in the boiler supply and the fuse in the boiler itself. The root cause of all the problems was a kink in the discharge pipe in the cupboard under the sink, you would not believe how much trouble this has caused.

I was talking to the customer who is in his eighties whilst drinking a coffee and eating a hot cross bun, as you do. The basic gist of our conversation was that guys who proudly proclaim that they are qualified because they did an apprenticeship over forty years ago, but have not updated their qualifications since then and work in isolation on their own without having the benefit of working with others to gain knowledge and experience from their peers are not the people you want working in your home.

However, the biggest issues tend to be due to people not being prepared to actually say “I don’t know” and who don’t know their own limitations, the worst being those who don’t know enough to know what they don’t know.

Sparkingchip said:

However, the biggest issues tend to be due to people not being prepared to actually say “I don’t know” and who don’t know their own limitations, the worst being those who don’t know enough to know what they don’t know.

Exactly! A little humility goes a long way.

I must say that a hedge cutter course seems rather OTT. I expect that quite a lot would be about safety rather than cutting the sides to a batter and making the top flat and level, but the legislation is about "at work etc." and not "at home" so I shall carry on as I always have done.