Improve your Farm Welding skills at CAFRE

If you think you too could improve your farm welding skills or even if you have never lifted a welding rod in your life, then the Basic Farm Welding course could be for you.

The tutor for the course is Tom Nelson. Tom has received some positive feedback and one trainee on the course remarked that their basic welding has improved by 100%.

The courses, which will be based at the Greenmount and Enniskillen Campuses, will run during the evenings over the autumn and winter period. The course costs 64 per person to cover all the materials used and any assessment costs. The topics covered in the course include:

*Systems used for welding, cutting and heating

*Safety and personal protective clothing

*Bead Welds

*MMA and MIG welding

*Butt, Single Vee and fillet joints

There is an emphasis through the course to get the trainees up to a certain standard through being given sufficient time to "work at their own speed, ensuring they get their welding right".

A number of the group hope to progress on to the Advanced Farm Welding course over the winter where they will cover skills such as MIG corner joints, oxyacetylene welding, vertical and overhead welds and the fabrication of a piece of agricultural equipment.

At the end of the Basic Farm Welding course, if the work is of a sufficient standard a trainee will be awarded a certificate at NVQ level 2 by the Open College Network for Northern Ireland.

If you want more information or are interested in attending the Basic Farm Welding course contact Charlene Graffin at 028 9442 6704 or visit the CAFRE website at www.cafre.ac.uk (search for "Basic Farm Welding").