Tree Trimmers and Pruner 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.
Tree Trimmers and Pruner is Also Know as
In different settings, Tree Trimmers and Pruner is titled as
- Arborist
- Climber
- Grounds Worker
- Groundsman
- Laborer
- Plant Health Care Technician
- Tree Climber
- Tree Trimmer
- Trimmer
Education and Training of Tree Trimmers and Pruner
Tree Trimmers and Pruner is categorized in Job Zone Two: Some Preparation Needed
Experience Required for Tree Trimmers and Pruner
Some previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is usually needed. For example, a teller would benefit from experience working directly with the public.
Education Required for Tree Trimmers and Pruner
These occupations usually require a high school diploma.
Degrees Related to Tree Trimmers and Pruner
Training Required for Tree Trimmers and Pruner
Employees in these occupations need anywhere from a few months to one year of working with experienced employees. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Related Ocuupations
Some Ocuupations related to Tree Trimmers and Pruner in different industries are
- Fallers
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
- Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse
- Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation
- Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators
- Forest and Conservation Workers
- Construction Laborers
- Logging Equipment Operators
- Highway Maintenance Workers
- Helpers--Extraction Workers
- Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand
- Hoist and Winch Operators
- Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood
- Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing
- Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
- Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners
- Forest and Conservation Technicians
- Riggers
- Roustabouts, Oil and Gas
What Do Tree Trimmers and Pruner do?
- Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.
- Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
- Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
- Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and 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.
- Trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
- 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.
- Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
- Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
- Inspect trees to determine if they have diseases or pest problems.
- Cable, brace, tie, bolt, stake, and guy trees and branches to provide support.
- Collect debris and refuse from tree trimming and removal operations into piles, using shovels, rakes, or other tools.
- 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.
- Remove broken limbs from wires, using hooked extension poles.
- Trim jagged stumps, using saws or pruning shears.
- Transplant and remove trees and shrubs, and prepare trees for moving.
- Spray trees to treat diseased or unhealthy trees, including mixing chemicals and calibrating spray equipment.
- Plan and develop budgets for tree work, and estimate the monetary value of trees.
- Water, root-feed, and fertilize trees.
- Apply tar or other protective substances to cut surfaces or 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.
- Scrape decayed matter from cavities in trees and fill holes with cement to promote healing and to prevent further deterioration.
- Split logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, or stakes, using hand tools such as ax wedges, sledgehammers, and mallets.
- Install lightning protection on trees.
Qualities of Good Tree Trimmers and Pruner
- Control Precision: The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
- Manual Dexterity: The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
- Reaction Time: The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
- Problem Sensitivity: The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
- Multilimb Coordination: The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
- Static Strength: The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects.
- Arm-Hand Steadiness: The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
- Extent Flexibility: The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Oral Comprehension: The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
- Trunk Strength: The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing.
- Near Vision: The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
- Dynamic Strength: The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
- Selective Attention: The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.
- Gross Body Equilibrium: The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
- Stamina: The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath.
- Far Vision: The ability to see details at a distance.
- Deductive Reasoning: The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
- Visualization: The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
- Inductive Reasoning: The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
- Depth Perception: The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
- Oral Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
- Finger Dexterity: The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
- Flexibility of Closure: The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
- Rate Control: The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
- Spatial Orientation: The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you.
- Gross Body Coordination: The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion.
- Information Ordering: The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
- Auditory Attention: The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
- Speech Recognition: The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
- Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
- Response Orientation: The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
- Speed of Limb Movement: The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
- Time Sharing: The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).
- Category Flexibility: The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
- Visual Color Discrimination: The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
- Written Comprehension: The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
- Hearing Sensitivity: The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
- Wrist-Finger Speed: The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
- Perceptual Speed: The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.
- Peripheral Vision: The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead.
- Fluency of Ideas: The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).
- Written Expression: The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
- Originality: The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.
- Sound Localization: The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated.
- Mathematical Reasoning: The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
- Speed of Closure: The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.
- Glare Sensitivity: The ability to see objects in the presence of a glare or bright lighting.
- Memorization: The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures.
- Number Facility: The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
- Dynamic Flexibility: The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
- Night Vision: The ability to see under low-light conditions.
- Explosive Strength: The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object.
Tools Used by Tree Trimmers and Pruner
- Agricultural augers
- Boom trucks
- Brush chippers
- Brush trucks
- Bucket trucks
- Bypass pruners
- Cargo trailers
- Chemical mixers
- Chipper shredders
- Chipper trucks
- Climbing hooks
- Cordless power saws
- Dump trucks
- Felling wedges
- Garden shovels
- Gas hedge trimmers
- Hacksaws
- Hand pruners
- Hand-held grab hooks
- Handheld sprayers
- Hard hats
- Hedge clippers
- Hydraulic chemical sprayers
- Hydraulic pruners
- Hydraulic stick saws
- Limbing axes
- Loader backhoes
- Long-handled clippers
- Loppers
- Measuring tapes
- Mist sprayers
- Non-slip boots
- Pole ladders
- Pole pruners
- Pole saws
- Power pruners
- Protective ear muffs
- Protective ear plugs
- Protective masks
- Protective safety glasses
- Pruning knives
- Root pruners
- Rope blocks
- Safety lanyards
- Soil sampling probes
- Stump chippers
- Swivel carabiners
- Tree climbing saddles
- Tree climbing spikes
- Tree pruning saws
- Tree trimming chainsaws
- Tripod ladders
- Truck-mounted lifts
- Wheeled front-end loaders
- Work gloves
- Work trucks
Technology Skills required for Tree Trimmers and Pruner
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft Word