Tree Trimmer and Pruner - Description
by David Steg on 10/22/14
"Tree Trimmer and Pruner"
Job Description
Basic Job Description:
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, pruning hooks, sheers, and clippers. May use truck-mounted lifts and power pruners. May fill cavities in trees to promote healing and prevent deterioration.
Job Duties and Tasks for: "Tree Trimmer and Pruner"
1) Cable, brace, tie, bolt, stake, and guy trees and branches to provide support.
2) Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
3) Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
4) Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
5) Collect debris and refuse from tree trimming and removal operations into piles, using shovels, rakes or other tools.
6) Cut away dead and excess branches from trees, or clear branches around power lines, using climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, and/or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers.
7) Inspect trees to determine if they have diseases or pest problems.
8) Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
9) Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
10) Spray trees to treat diseased or unhealthy trees, including mixing chemicals and calibrating spray equipment.
11) Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
12) Remove broken limbs from wires, using hooked extension poles.
13) Trim jagged stumps, using saws or pruning shears.
14) Trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
15) Water, root-feed, and fertilize trees.
16) Apply tar or other protective substances to cut surfaces to seal surfaces, and to protect them from fungi and insects.
17) Harvest tanbark by cutting rings and slits in bark and stripping bark from trees, using spuds or axes.
18) Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
19) Install lightning protection on trees.
20) Plan and develop budgets for tree work, and estimate the monetary value of trees.
21) Provide information to the public regarding trees, such as advice on tree care.
22) Scrape decayed matter from cavities in trees and fill holes with cement to promote healing and to prevent further deterioration.
23) Split logs or wooden blocks into bolts, pickets, posts, or stakes, using hand tools such as ax wedges, sledgehammers, and mallets.
24) Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.
25) Transplant and remove trees and shrubs, and prepare trees for moving.
26) Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
