Tree Trimmer
- Perfect for those who love working outdoors and ensuring tree health and safety.
- Maintain landscapes and protect infrastructure by trimming and pruning trees.
- Use advanced climbing and rigging skills to manage tree canopies safely.
💰 Earn $54K-$77K
📚 High School Diploma or GED
Overview
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.Scoop
High School Diploma or GED
Good (Increasing by 1-5%)
Day-to-Day
- Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
- Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
- 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.
- Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
- Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
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Best For You If...
You are skilled in 💫
- Active Listening
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Service Orientation
- Social Perceptiveness
- Speaking
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Having freedom
- Personal relationships
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