Will “Tree Expert” 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 Doctor
• Tractor Operator
• Timber Cutter
• Tanbark Laborer
• Pruner
• Grape Pruner
• Diagnostician
• Crane Operator
• Climber
• Brush Clearing Laborer

Tasks for “Tree Expert”

• Spray trees to treat diseased or unhealthy trees, including mixing chemicals and calibrating spray equipment.
• 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.
• Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.
• Scrape decayed matter from cavities in trees and fill holes with cement to promote healing and to prevent further deterioration.
• Trim jagged stumps, using saws or pruning shears.
• Transplant and remove trees and shrubs, and prepare trees for moving.
• Water, root-feed, and fertilize trees.
• Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
• Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
• Install lightning protection on trees.
• Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
• Provide information to the public regarding trees, such as advice on tree care.
• Plan and develop budgets for tree work, and estimate the monetary value of trees.
• 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.
• Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
• 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.
• Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
• Inspect trees to determine if they have diseases or pest problems.
• 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.
• Harvest tanbark by cutting rings and slits in bark and stripping bark from trees, using spuds or axes.
• Remove broken limbs from wires, using hooked extension poles.
• Apply tar or other protective substances to cut surfaces to seal surfaces, and to protect them from fungi and insects.
• Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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