Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

• Supervising others engaged in tree trimming working and training lower levels employees.
• Operating boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
• Cleaning, sharpening, and lubricating tools and equipment.
• Cutting away dead and excess branches from trees, or clearing branches around power lines, using climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers.
• Trimming, topping, and reshaping trees for achieving attractive shapes or for removing low hanging branches.
• Pruning, cutting down, fertilizing, and spraying trees as directed by tree surgeons.
• Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lowering branches with ropes or block and tackle.
• Operating shredding and chipping equipment, and loading limbs and brush into the machines.
• Loading debris and refuse onto trucks and hauling it away for disposal.
• Inspecting trees for determining if they have diseases or pest problems.