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.
