Will “Pruner” 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
• Grape Pruner
• Diagnostician
• Crane Operator
• Climber
• Brush Clearing Laborer

Tasks for “Pruner”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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