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
• 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
• Plant Health Care Technician
• Grape Pruner
• Diagnostician
• Crane Operator
• Climber
• Brush Clearing Laborer

Tasks for “Plant Health Care Technician”

• Install lightning protection on trees.
• Cable, brace, tie, bolt, stake, and guy trees and branches to provide support.
• Spray trees to treat diseased or unhealthy trees, including mixing chemicals and calibrating spray equipment.
• Split logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, or stakes, using hand tools such as ax wedges, sledgehammers, and mallets.
• Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.
• 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.
• Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
• Collect debris and refuse from tree trimming and removal operations into piles, using shovels, rakes or other tools.
• Remove broken limbs from wires, using hooked extension poles.
• Harvest tanbark by cutting rings and slits in bark and stripping bark from trees, using spuds or axes.
• Scrape decayed matter from cavities in trees and fill holes with cement to promote healing and to prevent further deterioration.
• Trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
• Trim jagged stumps, using saws or pruning shears.
• 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.
• Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
• Transplant and remove trees and shrubs, and prepare trees for moving.
• Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
• 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.
• Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
• Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
• Water, root-feed, and fertilize trees.
• 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.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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