Chainsaw Maintenance and Cross-Cutting (Occasional User)

Boost your skills - and your job prospects - with our dedicated chainsaw course. The chainsaw is one of the most useful - and powerful - tools used across any number of industries. But it is also one of the most dangerous. Our course will help you build on the skills and experience you already possess. It will give you the chance to obtain a competency card to open up job opportunities in your chosen sector.

The finer details

This course will enable you to prove your expertise in a vital area of forestry and arboricultural work. It will also provide firm evidence of your ability to meet licence-to-practise standards. You could be starting a new role. Or you might already be using your chainsaw skills across a range of relevant operations. Whatever your professional circumstances, our course will boost your confidence and help you meet the current standards of good working practice.

To achieve this qualification, you'll need to have completed two mandatory units:

Carry out maintenance of chainsaw and cutting system

Cross-cut timber using a chainsaw.