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”

• Scrape decayed matter from cavities in trees and fill holes with cement to promote healing and to prevent further deterioration.
• Cable, brace, tie, bolt, stake, and guy trees and branches to provide support.
• Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
• 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.
• Plan and develop budgets for tree work, and estimate the monetary value of trees.
• Provide information to the public regarding trees, such as advice on tree care.
• Trim jagged stumps, using saws or pruning shears.
• Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
• Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
• Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
• Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
• Transplant and remove trees and shrubs, and prepare trees for moving.
• Apply tar or other protective substances to cut surfaces to seal surfaces, and to protect them from fungi and insects.
• 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.
• Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
• Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
• 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.
• Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
• Install lightning protection on trees.
• Water, root-feed, and fertilize trees.
• Inspect trees to determine if they have diseases or pest problems.
• Spray trees to treat diseased or unhealthy trees, including mixing chemicals and calibrating spray equipment.
• Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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