01/05/2021
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, remove 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.
Tasks:
* 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.
* Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
* Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
* Inspect trees to determine if they have diseases or pest problems.
* Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
* Cut down, trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
* Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
* Collect debris and refuse from tree trimming and removal operations into piles, using shovels, rakes or other tools.
* Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
* 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.
* Provide information to the public regarding trees, such as advice on tree care.
