Will “Crane Operator” be Replaced By Robots? 🤔

Job Description

Using sophisticated climbing and rigging techniques, cut away dead or excess branches from trees or shrubs to maintain right-of-way for roads, sidewalks, or utilities, or to improve appearance, health, and value of tree. Prune or treat trees or shrubs using handsaws, hand pruners, clippers, and power pruners. Works off the ground in the tree canopy and may use truck-mounted lifts.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 37-3013.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 37,310.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 17.00
• Currently, there are 40,680 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Tree Trimmers and Pruners”.

Also Known As…

• Tree Trimmers and Pruners
• Tree Trimmer
• Tree Climber
• Tree Care Foreman
• Plant Health Care Technician
• Line Clearance Foreman
• Groundsman
• Ground Worker
• Arborist
• Vine Pruner
• Trimmer
• Tree Worker
• Tree Trimmer Helper
• Tree Surgeon
• Tree Specialist
• Tree Expert
• Tree Doctor
• Tractor Operator
• Timber Cutter
• Tanbark Laborer
• Pruner
• Grape Pruner
• Diagnostician
• Climber
• Brush Clearing Laborer

Tasks for “Crane Operator”

• Spray trees to treat diseased or unhealthy trees, including mixing chemicals and calibrating spray equipment.
• Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
• Water, root-feed, and fertilize trees.
• Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.
• Apply tar or other protective substances to cut surfaces to seal surfaces, and to protect them from fungi and insects.
• Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
• Harvest tanbark by cutting rings and slits in bark and stripping bark from trees, using spuds or axes.
• Split logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, or stakes, using hand tools such as ax wedges, sledgehammers, and mallets.
• Trim jagged stumps, using saws or pruning shears.
• Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
• Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
• Provide information to the public regarding trees, such as advice on tree care.
• Remove broken limbs from wires, using hooked extension poles.
• Cable, brace, tie, bolt, stake, and guy trees and branches to provide support.
• Inspect trees to determine if they have diseases or pest problems.
• Install lightning protection on trees.
• Plan and develop budgets for tree work, and estimate the monetary value of trees.
• Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
• Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
• Cut away dead and excess branches from trees, or clear branches around power lines, using climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers.
• Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
• Collect debris and refuse from tree trimming and removal operations into piles, using shovels, rakes or other tools.
• Transplant and remove trees and shrubs, and prepare trees for moving.
• Trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
• Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
• Scrape decayed matter from cavities in trees and fill holes with cement to promote healing and to prevent further deterioration.

Related Technology & Tools

• Gas hedge trimmers
• Climbing hooks
• Tree climbing saddles
• Hydraulic stick saws
• Hard hats
• Hacksaws
• Protective ear muffs
• Long-handled clippers
• Pole saws
• Stump chippers
• Loppers
• Boom trucks
• Work trucks
• Hedge clippers
• Pruning knives
• Loader backhoes
• Chemical mixers
• Hydraulic pruners
• Chipper trucks
• Hydraulic chemical sprayers
• Wheeled front-end loaders
• Hand pruners
• Mist sprayers
• Hand-held grab hooks
• Safety lanyards
• Chipper shredders
• Tree pruning saws
• Pole pruners
• Swivel carabiners
• Pole ladders
• Bucket trucks
• Dump trucks
• Work gloves
• Non-slip boots
• Agricultural augers
• Tree climbing spikes
• Brush trucks
• Protective ear plugs
• Cargo trailers
• Measuring tapes
• Protective safety glasses
• Bypass pruners
• Root pruners
• Limbing axes
• Protective masks
• Truck-mounted lifts
• Power pruners
• Tree trimming chainsaws
• Garden shovels
• Handheld sprayers
• Felling wedges
• Cordless power saws
• Brush chippers
• Tripod ladders
• Rope blocks
• Soil sampling probes

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