SETA-accredited Wood Chipper Training
Registered with FP&M SETA, Africa Biomass Company (ABC) is qualified to provide full hands-on training to wood chipper operators in the private and commercial sectors. After completing the training, operators are fully qualified to operate tree chipper machines.
Training is available at our head office facility in Worcester. Alternatively, we can conduct the training on-site at the client’s premises.
What you can expect
The SETA-accredited training modules include
- Operating a chipper according to industry norms.
- How to prepare an operational harvest plan.
- Preparing, operating, and maintaining a 3-wheeled loader in a non-production situation.
- Effectively preparing, operating, and maintaining a self-propelled knuckle boom loader in a non-production situation.
- Preparing, operating, and maintaining a tractor in a non-production situation.
- Mastering the preparation, operation, and maintenance of a vehicle-mounted knuckle boom loader in a non-production situation.
- How to comply with good housekeeping practices.
- Understanding of basic safety in forestry operations.
- Comprehension of ground-based machine extraction.
- Knowledge of mechanical timber handling equipment.
- Extraction and transporting of timber using a tractor and trailer in a production situation.
- Maintaining and setting up chipper knives and anvils in chipper machines in the lumbar mill.
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