Also called: Tree Mover, Large Tree Transplanting Operator
Drives a truck with giant hydraulic blades that dig up whole trees with their roots and replant them somewhere else in one move.
You back a truck with four steel blades over a 20-foot maple at a tree farm. The blades slice into the ground and lift the tree with a huge root ball. You drive it across town and set it in a new hole at a corporate campus, then water it in.
Estimated from nursery and landscape company pay.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. High school diploma; tree farms and landscape firms train operators.
Ways in: On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Horticulture, Arboriculture.
Growing about average. New developments and campuses want big trees right away.
Low risk for 10 years. Positioning a tree spade and judging root balls stays hands-on.
Classes: Ag science, Physics, Driver education.
Official data: O*NET occupation 37-3011.
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