Powered Pole Pruner Training Course

A comprehensive course that will enable you to use a pole powered pruner to its full potential safely and efficiently. Delivered by friendly instructors this course will help you hone the skills you need to advance your career in arboriculture.

• Complete basic environmental checks prior to work operations
• Identify the necessary personal protective equipment required
• Identify the health and safety features
• Identify faults and defects on a pruning saw and cutting mechanism
• Carry out correctly all routine maintenance in accordance with the manufacturer’s guidance
• Prepare the pruning saw for use with the correct fuel/oil mix and chain lubrication
• Start the pruning saw
• Carry out pre-cutting safety checks and state the procedures if the pruning saw fails these checks
• Risk assessment
• Assess and explain the terms ‘tension’ and ‘compression’ in timber
• Safe procedures to remove a trapped guide bar
• Use correct pruning methods
• Clear the pruned branches to the site specification
• Organise site safely

Course sessions:

• HSE legislation and safety guidelines
• Safety features of a powered pole pruner
• Maintaining the powered pole pruner chain
• Maintaining the guide bar
• Engine maintenance
• Starting the pruning saw and pre-cut checks
• Cutting
• Leave site as per specification

For information on price and course duration, please see our Ground Based Arb and Forestry Courses page.