Will “Tree Trimmer” 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 Climber
• Tree Care Foreman
• Plant Health Care Technician
• Line Clearance Foreman
• Groundsman
• Ground Worker
• Arborist
• Vine Pruner
• Trimmer
• Tree Worker
• Tree Trimmer Helper
• Tree Trimmer
• Tree Surgeon
• Tree Specialist
• Tree Expert
• Tree Doctor
• Tractor Operator
• Timber Cutter
• Tanbark Laborer
• Pruner
• Grape Pruner
• Diagnostician
• Crane Operator
• Climber
• Brush Clearing Laborer

Tasks for “Tree Trimmer”

• Provide information to the public regarding trees, such as advice on tree care.
• 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.
• Trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
• 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.
• Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
• Spray trees to treat diseased or unhealthy trees, including mixing chemicals and calibrating spray equipment.
• Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
• Harvest tanbark by cutting rings and slits in bark and stripping bark from trees, using spuds or axes.
• 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.
• Inspect trees to determine if they have diseases or pest problems.
• Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
• Install lightning protection on trees.
• Remove broken limbs from wires, using hooked extension poles.
• Transplant and remove trees and shrubs, and prepare trees for moving.
• Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.
• Cable, brace, tie, bolt, stake, and guy trees and branches to provide support.
• Trim jagged stumps, using saws or pruning shears.
• Split logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, or stakes, using hand tools such as ax wedges, sledgehammers, and mallets.
• Apply tar or other protective substances to cut surfaces to seal surfaces, and to protect them from fungi and insects.
• Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
• 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.
• Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.

Related Technology & Tools

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

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