Will “Plant Health Care Technician” 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
• Crane Operator
• Climber
• Brush Clearing Laborer

Tasks for “Plant Health Care Technician”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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