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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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