City and Guilds of London Institute · RQF Level 2
City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Work-based Trees and Timber (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits37
- Guided learning79 hours
- Units in this qualification88
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These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Arboricultural ground workerReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake the role of ground worker.
Attach and detach timber on skidderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Attach and detach timber on skidder
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Attach and detach timber on skidder
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Build and maintain tools and devices used to process coppice and green wood productsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Build tools and devices
- Maintain tools and devices
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Build tools and devices
- Use tools and devices
Carry out a woodland surveyReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake a woodland survey
- Carry out a woodland survey
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Carry out arboricultural operations in proximity to overhead utilitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Work in proximity to overhead utilities
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Work in proximity to overhead utilities
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Carry out arboricultural operations withiin proximity to underground utilitiesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Work in close proximity to underground utilities
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Work in close proximity to underground utilities
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Carry out non chemical post-planting protection and maintenanceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out non chemical post planting protection
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Carry out non chemical plant protection
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Carry out pruning operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety during tree pruning work.
- Carry out tree crown thinning.
- Carry out tree crown reduction.
- Understand tree pruning operations.
Carry out site amelioration for tree healthReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out soil amelioration
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain and use equipment
- Carry out soil amelioration
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
Carry out stump protection using stump protection fluids by simple hand held equipmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Transport stump protection fluid.
- Prepare and operate hand help applicator.
- Decontaminate and keep records.
Chainsaw maintenanceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out maintenance of a chainsaw
Choker timber in cable crane workReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for chokering timber
- Choker timber to cable
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Choker timber to cable
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Climb trees and perform aerial rescueReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Climb a tree
- Conduct aerial rescue.
- Identify tree species
Communicate with the public and othersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate with the public and others.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Communicate with the public and others
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Understand the values of the organisation
Construct a green wood product to client specificationReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct a greenwood product to specification
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know a range of green wood products
- Know the relevance of product liability
Construct, maintain and repair access gatesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair access gates
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of access gates
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair access gates
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair aggregate pathsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair aggregate paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Know the different types of path
- Construct, maintain and repair paths
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair banksReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair banks
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of banks
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair banks
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair bark pathsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair bark paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair bark paths
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair boardwalksReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair boardwalks
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair boardwalks
- Know the difference between boardwalk paths and other types of path
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair flag pathsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair flag paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair flag paths
- Know the difference between flag paths and other types of path
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair fordsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair fords
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair fords
- Distinguish between different types of access structure
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair post and rail boundariesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair post and rail boundaries
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of post and rail fence boundaries
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair post and rail fence boundaries
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair post and wire fence boundariesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair post and wire fence boundaries
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of post and wire fence boundaries
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair pot and wire fence boundaries
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair reinforced pathsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair reinforced paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair reinforced paths
- Know the difference between reinforced paths and other types of path
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair signs/way markersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair signs/way markers
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair signs/way markers
- Distinguish between different types of access structure
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair simple bridgesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair simple bridge
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair simple bridges
- Distinguish between different types of access structure
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair stepsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair steps
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair steps
- Distinguish between different types of access structure
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair stilesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair stiles
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of stiles
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair stiles
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Construct, maintain and repair stone pitched pathsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair stone pitched paths
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Construct, maintain and repair stone pitched paths
- Know the difference between stone pitched paths and other types of path
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Construct, maintain and repair stone wall boundariesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Construct, maintain and repair stone wall boundaries
- Select, use and maintain equipment for the construction, maintenance and repair of stone wall boundaries
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Construct, maintain and repair stone wall boundaries
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Control local pollution incidents in the environmental and land-based industriesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Control local pollution incidents
- Control local pollution incidents
Control pests, diseases and disordersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Control pests, diseases and disorders
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Control pests, diseases and disorders
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical meansReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the need for vertebrate pest control
- Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical means
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain accurate records
- Determine the need for vertebrate pest control.
- Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical means
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Control vertebrate pests and predators by shootingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the need for vertebrate pests and predator control.
- Shoot vertebrate pests and predators.
- Handle firearms and ammunition according to legal requirements
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain accurate records
- Determine the need for vertebrate pests and predator control
- Shoot vertebrate pests and predators.
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Control vertebrate pests and predators using trapsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Determine the need for vertebrate pests and predator control
- Trap vertebrate pests and predators
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain accurate records
- Determine the need for vertebrate pests and predator control.
- Trap vertebrate pests and predators
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Coppicing – planning, cutting, processing and extractingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a coppice fall
- Undertake a coppice fall and restoration
- Process material for different uses and extract materials
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know how fully restore a coppice fall
- Know relevant health and safety, legal and environmental legislation and environmental good practice
Create an open drainage systemReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Create and open drainage system
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Create an open drainage system
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Cross-cut and stack small diameter timber using a chainsawReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Crosscut and stack small diametre timber using a chainsaw
Dispose of stumps and rootsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Dispose of stumps and roots
- Work safely and minimise nvironmental damage
- Select, prepare use and maintain equipment
- Treat and dispose of stumps and roots
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Establish a new coppiceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plant a new coppice
- Protect and maintain a new coppice
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Assess the parametres effecting a new coppice
- Plan a new coppice
- Know the factors effecting coppice establishment
Fell and process small treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Fell small trees using a chainsaw.
- Remove branches from small trees using a chainsaw by appropriate method.
- Crosscut felled trees
- Take down of hung up trees using hand tools
Fell and process trees over 380mm diameterReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Fell trees over 380mm diametre
- Remove branches
- Crosscut felled stems over guide bar length (380mm) in diametre
- Takedown of hung up trees using a winch
Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disordersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disorders
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disorders
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Identify tree species and associated plantsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the parts of plants can aid identification
- Identify plants associated with trees
- Identify trees
- Identify tree properties
- Understand the attributes of trees
Lay a hedgeReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to lay a hedge
- Lay a hedge
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Lay a hedge
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Maintain an open drainage systemReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain an open drainage system
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Maintain an open drainage system
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Maintain and repair site furniture and structuresReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain and repair site furniture and structures
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Maintain and/or repair site furniture and structures
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Maintaining plants outdoorsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use tools and maintain relevant equipment
- Maintain the health of plants outdoors
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Maintain the health of plants outdoors
- Know relevant health and safety and animal welfare legislation and environmental good practice
Manually Plant treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Manually plant trees
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Manually plant trees
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Manually prepare sites for tree plantingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Manually prepare sites for planting
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Manually prepare sites for tree planting
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Mechanically prepare sites for tree plantingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare sites for planting
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Prepare sites for tree planting
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Monitoring and maintaining health and safetyReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain health, safety and security in the workplace
- Use equipment and materials safely
- Know the systems and procedures for maintaining health, safety and security.
- Understand why equipment is transported and stored safely
- Know the reason for following manufacturers’ guidance
- Maintain good standards of heath and safety for self and for others
- Understand how to maintain the health and safety of self and others
- Know the safe lifting techniques
- Maintain health and safety
Operate a grapple loaderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Operate a grapple loader
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Operate a grapple loader
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Plan and carry out plant protection by chemical meansReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out plant protection by chemical means
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Understand how to carry out plant protection by chemical means
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Understand the reasons for maintaining equipment
Plan and maintain supplies of physical resources within the work areaReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain supplies of physical resources
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to maintain supplies of physical resources
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare and Operate machinery to Fell TreesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Select and prepare machinery
- Drive and manoeuvre machinery
- Fell trees
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare, drive and manoeuvre machinery
- Fell trees
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare and Operate machinery to Process treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Select and prepare machinery
- Drive and manoeuvre machinery
- Process felled trees
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare machinery
- Process trees
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare and maintain safe working sites for arboricultural operations from the groundReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare and maintain safe working sites for arboriculture operations
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Select, use and maintain equipment
- Prepare and maintain safe working sites for arboriculture operations
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Prepare and operate hand fed machinery to Process timber on siteReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare machine for processing
- Process timber on site
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare machine for processing on site
- Process timber on site
- Know relevant health and safety legislation
Prepare and produce charcoalReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare wood for charcoal production
- Produce charcoal
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare cord wood and make charcoal
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare deer for human consumptionReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Transport and store dead deer
- Be to able prepare and inspect dead deer
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
- Understand how to transport and store dead deer.
- Understand how to prepare and inspect dead deer in preparation for human consumption.
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Maintain accurate records
Prepare for and carry out emergency arboricultural operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for emergency arboricultural operations
- Undertake emergency arboricultural operations
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare emergency plans and agree actions
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare, Drive and Manoeuvre forwarderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Be ale to select and prepare forwarder
- Drive and manoeuvre forwarder
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Prepare, drive and manoeuvre forwarder
- Drive and manoeuvre forwarder
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Prepare, drive and manoeuvre a skidderReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to operate a skidder
- Drive and manoeuvre a skidder
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare, operate, drive and manoeuvre a skidder
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Principles of forest and moorland fire fightingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Know the principles of forest and moorland fire fighting
- Support forest and moorland fire fighting
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Process arisings/residues from treework and timber operationsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Process arisings/residues from operations
- Work safely and minimise nvironmental damage
- Select, prepare use and maintain equipment
- Process arisings/residues from operations
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Process coppice materials for simple coppice productsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Source materials for simple coppice products
- Process materials into simple coppice products
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Source materials for simple coppice products
- Process materials into simple coppice products
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Process wood for green wood productsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare materials for green wood products
- Process wood for products
- Form and finish products
- Preapre materials
- Prepare wood
- Form and finish products
Promote responsible public use of the environmentReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Safeguard members of the public and others
- Safeguard the environment
- Safeguard members of the public and the environment
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Re-pollard trees at a maximum height of five metresReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Climb a tree
- Conduct and aerail rescue.
- Use a chainsaw from a rope and harness.
Resolve customer service problemsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Spot customer service problems
- Pick the best solution to resolve customer service problems
- Take action to resolve customer service problems
- Resolve customer service problems
Safe use of a chainsaw from mobile elevated work platformsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety during cahinsaw work from a mobil elevated work platform (MEWP).
- Carry out pre-work operational checks and set up.
- Operate a chainsaw from the platform to remove tree limb and stem sections.
Safe use of powered pole prunersReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety whilist maintianing and using powered pole pruner.
- Maintain a powered pole pruner.
- Carry out onsite preparation and basic pruning work with a powered pole pruner.
Sever individually uprooted treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety whilst working on uprooted trees with a chainsaw.
- Sever individual uprooted trees using a chainsaw.
- Restrain root plates on individually uprooted trees using a suitable winch.
Sever multiple windblown treesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Understand operator safety during chainsaw work with multiple windblown trees
- Sever multiple windblown trees.
Sharpen and maintain edged hand tools for green wood tradesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Maintain, sharpen and repair hand tools
- Repair hand tool shafts and handles
- Sharpen a hand tool
Site and install site furniture and structuresReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Site and install site furniture and structures
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment
- Understand the need to site and install site furniture and structures
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Specialist tree fellingReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Fell specialist trees
- Remove branches from specialist trees
Take delivery of and store plants and materialsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Take delivery of and store plants and materials
- Take delivery of and store plants and materials
Techniques to work with Damaged TreesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for damaged trees operations
- Sever individual uprooted trees using a chainsaw
- Restrain root-plates on individually uprooted trees using a hand operated winch
- Remove branches by de-limbing
- Felling leaning or part uprooted trees
- Felling tree with significantly broken crown using winch or pull rope
Treat and dispose of stumps and rootsReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Treat and dispose of stumps and roots
- Work safely and minimise nvironmental damage
- Select, use and maintain equipment
- Treat and dispose of stumps
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them
Tree protection and maintenance for newly planted coppiceReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Assess tree health of newly planted coppice
- Identify causes of damage to woodland trees
- Select appropriate three protection measures
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Assess environmental impact of activities
- Identify causes of damage
Undertake sectional felling techniquesReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake sectional felling techniques.
Use a chainsaw from a rope and harnessReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Use a chainsaw from a rope and harness.
Use of mechanically powered winches in timber workReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for winch operation
- Lay out cable and choker timber to cable
- Operate winch to pull in timber
- Promote health and safety and environmental good practice
- Understand how to prepare for winch operation
- Understand how to lay out cable and choker timber to cable
- Understand how to operate winch to pull in timber
- Understand relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice
Wood fuel production for the domestic marketReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Cut and process wood fuel
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage
- Know the qualities of suitable timber for wood fuel
- Know how the wood fuel market effects process
Work with and consult the local communityReal unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
What you'll be able to do
- Work with and consult the local community
- Understand the importance of working with and consulting the local community
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Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 2 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Arboricultural ground workerAttach and detach timber on skidderBuild and maintain tools and devices used to process coppice and green wood productsCarry out a woodland surveyCarry out arboricultural operations in proximity to overhead utilitiesCarry out arboricultural operations withiin proximity to underground utilitiesCarry out non chemical post-planting protection and maintenanceCarry out pruning operations
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Work-based Trees and Timber (QCF)
- Ameliorate soil for tree health Legacy
- Attach and detach timber onto a skidder Legacy
- Build and maintain tools and devices used to process coppice and green wood products
- Carry out emergency treework operations Legacy
- Carry out post-planting tree protection and maintenance
- Carry out prescribed burning as part of vegetation management
- Carry out site surveys and communicate your findings
- Carry out tree and vegetation management in proximity to underground utilities Legacy
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
Ameliorate soil for tree health LegacyAttach and detach timber onto a skidder LegacyBuild and maintain tools and devices used to process coppice and green wood productsCarry out emergency treework operations LegacyCarry out post-planting tree protection and maintenanceCarry out prescribed burning as part of vegetation managementCarry out site surveys and communicate your findingsCarry out tree and vegetation management in proximity to underground utilities LegacyCarry out vegetation management in proximity to above ground utilitiesChoker timber for extraction LegacyConstruct a green wood product to client specification LegacyConsult and work with the local community legacyControl vertebrate pest populations using chemical means (Legacy)Control vertebrate pest populations using chemical methods LegacyControl vertebrate pests and predators by shooting LegacyControl vertebrate pests and predators using traps LegacyCreate and maintain site infrastructure and assetsCut, Process and Extract Coppice Legacy+33 more
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Applied to your own work
How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for City & Guilds Level 2 Diploma in Work-based Trees and Timber (QCF)
88 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.
- Arboricultural ground worker
- Attach and detach timber on skidder
- Build and maintain tools and devices used to process coppice and green wood products
- Carry out a woodland survey
- Carry out arboricultural operations in proximity to overhead utilities
- Carry out arboricultural operations withiin proximity to underground utilities
and 82 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is
take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying
for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with
you, on your real work, is for.
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.