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Career Guidance Skills handling and moving S6.4 - tending plants and crops S6.4.1 - cultivating land and crops Control tree diseases
Description
Identify diseased or undesirable trees. Remove them using power saws or hand saws.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 2 occupations
- Optional in 1 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 6 (Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers)
Essential for
- Forest workerForest workers carry out a variety of jobs to care for and manage trees, woodland areas and forests. Their activities include include planting, trimming, thinning and felling trees…
- ArboriculturistArboriculturists carry out specialised tasks related to observation, health and maintenance of trees. Excludes forest worker.Excludes forestry equipment operator.Includes people pe…
Optional for
- Tree surgeonTree surgeons maintain trees. They use heavy machinery to prune and cut trees. Tree surgeons are often required to climb the trees to perform maintenance. Duties Tree surgeons typi…
Related skills
- Maintain forestry equipment
- De-limb trees
- Perform tree thinning
- Execute disease and pest control activities
- Nurse trees
- Assist tree identification
- Climb trees
- Carry out aerial tree rigging
- Forest ecology
- Operate forestry equipment
- Spray pesticides
- Inspect trees
Last updated on February 18, 2026
