What you need to do
- Be able to identify in summer and in winter the following trees: oak, ash, sycamore, beech, elm, birch, horse chestnut, lime, plane, field maple, spruce and pine. Know how to identify any tree by reference to an identification key.
- Have a knowledge of the tending of woods and plantations, the sequence of operations and the reason for these operations. Know some of the dangers to which woods may be exposed, for example, frost, fire and animals.
- Prepare soil and transplant a young tree.
- Know how to select, use and care for an axe and the safety rules of axemanship.
- Know how to fell and trim out a tree.