FORESTRY AND ARBORICULTURE TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT

TRAINING

Tamarack tree management and training aims to provide an innovative, perspective and professional service to all clients. Building on more than 17 years of instructional techniques and 10 years in the arboricultural industry, we aim our sights high for all candidates who attend one of our courses. We offer a full range of nationally recognised training courses to meet the needs of those working or seeking to work within the forestry or arboricultural industry.

In all our courses, safety of the candidate and public is our highest priority. Therefore we operate a strict one to four instructor to candidate ratio. One to one instruction is also available and is proving quite popular.

Our mission statement is simple "Train hard, work easy".

To complement our course delivery we have excellent training facilities including workshop, classroom, brew cabin, TV and video facility and a range of training sites. We also offer transport to any other training area from our base at Wyresdale free of charge. We also have the flexibility to carry out training and assessment nationally.

ASSESSMENT

Not only can Tamarack provide a comprehensive training package, we can also offer you NPTC assessment if you require. All you have to do is book on a Tamarack course and we will do the rest. Also available is the LANTRA awards ITA chainsaw course for the occasional user.

Mike Rushton - Principle Trainer/Assessor

• Royal Forestry Society Certificate in Arboriculture

• National Proficiency Test Council (NPTC) Assessor 

• Lantra Registered Instructor

• Lifting Operations and Lift Equipment Regulations (LOLER) Inspector

After leaving the armed forces in 1990, Mike fell into the Arboriculture Industry by accident. After attending Myerscough College for further theoretical and practical training, Mike worked for various companies large and small. Firstly as an operator, then foreman and finally manager. He decided to go self-employed in 2000, tackling three main business streams within the arboricultural industry, contracting, training and assessing. Over the years of self-employment, these business streams are still in place and have developed into a solid business. Mike will be furthering his arboricultural career in the future, both theoretically and practically to move his chosen profession forward. Mike believes that education and training not only for operatives in the industry, but the general public is paramount to change the mind set for safer tree work and more care for trees.