How do they match: Tree Trimmers and Pruners

  • Grounds Worker
  • Timber Cutter
  • Tree Worker

  • 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.

  • 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.
  • Apply tar or other protective substances to cut surfaces or 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.
  • Harvest tanbark by cutting rings and slits in bark and stripping bark from trees, using spuds or axes.
  • Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
  • Plan and develop budgets for tree work, and estimate the monetary value of trees.
  • Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
  • Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.

  • Drive trucks or other vehicles to or at work sites.
  • Instruct staff in work policies or procedures.
  • Prepare chemicals for work application.
  • Remove debris from work sites.
  • Supervise maintenance workers.