We love to keep up to date with new practices, courses, assessment news and much more in the arboriculture industry. Over the years that Scott Fraser Training, we have been documenting activities that have been taking place daily. Have a read through some of our blog posts below and let us know what you think; we'd love to hear from you.
Split Level Cut: Felling Trees up to 380mm City & Guilds Unit 203 Part 5
This fifth article in the series looks at the split-level felling cut in a bit more detail, including its range of application. Having said that, once mastered, it can transform how you approach tree felling work, allowing the placement of trees to suit processing, extraction and conversion requirements.
Dogtooth: Felling Trees up to 380mm City & Guilds Unit 203 - Part 6
This sixth article in the series looks at the dog-tooth felling cut (also known as the bore & sever) in more detail, including its range of application. Remember, this written article is no substitute for the personal delivery of tree felling skills and should be seen as supporting that primary personal delivery.
Felling Trees Over 380mm City & Guilds Unit
City & Guilds NPTC, Level 3 Award 301 in Felling & Processing trees over 380mm, is available as either independently assessed or as Integrated Assessment. This article reviews the course content, the broader benefits of completing the unit and highlights some recent courses run on-site.
Vermeer 252 Stump Grinder
In 2000, we purchased a new Vermeer 252 stump grinder use in our arboricultural contracting business. After 20 years of service, this machine is still going strong. It is mainly used to deliver our popular Lantra Awards Stump Grinder ITA.
Felling Trees up to 380mm - City & Guilds Unit 203 Part 4
This fourth article in the series looks at the standard felling cut in a little more detail, including its range of application. As previously discussed, this cut choice is suitable for upright trees, that when assessed from a variety of positions, would fell in any direction.
Forestry Machine Operations FMO Timber Trailer Repair
This blog outlines two recent repairs carried out to our forestry machinery . The components and principles are used to develop broader machine knowledge and skills to fix problems when they inevitably occur.
Small Tree Felling Cut Series - Article 3
Choosing the right felling cut is a skill that takes time to develop. This third article in our small tree felling series covers the considerations made in assessing tree lean, canopy distribution and adjacent features that all add up (hopefully) to the best-matched felling cut.
TP 200 PTO Wood Chipper
In 2020, we purchased a brand-new wood chipper to use for our frequent Lantra Awards Brushwood Chipper ITA and City & Guilds Unit 222 Level 2 Award in the Safe Use of a Manually Fed Wood-chipper IA courses. We chose a tractor-mounted machine from Wilson machinery, a TP 200 PTO.
Lantra Awards ITA in Chainsaw Maintenance & Crosscutting
Following lockdown in March, all of our planned training was put on hold. We received a welcome phone call from Jenny at Mackley Civil & Marine Engineers urgently requesting chainsaw maintenance and cross-cutting training on-site at the Environmental Agency Flood Defence Contract in Romney Marsh.
LT20 Sawmill - Wood-Mizer 3 Phase Electric Sawmill - Milling
Whilst working on some timber extraction, Nick Meech, formerly based at Woodland Enterprise Centre, helped us out with a couple of projects to fill in the gap left by our abruptly curtailed training programme due to lockdown.