SouthSoundTree
Treehouser
WA State Parks may be getting opening a new position on the Arbor Crew. Wanted to know if anybody might be interested or knew of someone.
40 hours a week, typically 4-tens. State benefits: medical, dental, retirement, vacation, sick. Some bureaucracy, but someone insulated from it on the Arbor Crew. Based in Olympia. 30-40 overnight stays away from home with hotel and per diem paid.
Hazard work- removal and pruning, and some healthy tree pruning for clearance over road.
Bucket work, ground felling of large trees, some occasional climbing of small and large trees (WRAPTOR).
Some diagnosis and evaluation (we have a resistograph, among other tools, including regular VTA)--- hazard trees due to defects, root disease, heart rot, structure, etc.
Will require a CDL and ISA-CA if the position is made permanent. On the job training. The State pays for training.
By and large, we don't remove healthy trees unless there is a building project, historical building/ structure preservation, etc. Almost all removals are dead/ dying/ defective, and sometimes downright Rotten.
Bucket pruning for camp ground and roadway clearance.
Position might come through as a cooperative agreement to work with WaDOT with their tree-related road projects, such as hazard trees, view pruning/ removal for traffic cameras, which we did for the first time after a big snow/ ice storm this last year and this past summer. Up to 25% of the crew time will be working on WaDOT projects on state highways and Interstates.
We do almost no clean-up. We mainly get the hazards on the ground and cut small enough for other staff (MS 029 wielding park staff and/ or convict work crews) to further process it.
Parks have tractors with bite buckets and forks. We have a very old log skidder, though the 20K winch is wicked, and it runs well, just small and low power compared to modern commercial machines, which means it goes through intact forests better. 6 year old 60' versalift, Bandit 250 with winch (which we rarely use ourselves) and about 500 hours, 5 year old F350 4x4 with 12k winch.
40 hours a week, typically 4-tens. State benefits: medical, dental, retirement, vacation, sick. Some bureaucracy, but someone insulated from it on the Arbor Crew. Based in Olympia. 30-40 overnight stays away from home with hotel and per diem paid.
Hazard work- removal and pruning, and some healthy tree pruning for clearance over road.
Bucket work, ground felling of large trees, some occasional climbing of small and large trees (WRAPTOR).
Some diagnosis and evaluation (we have a resistograph, among other tools, including regular VTA)--- hazard trees due to defects, root disease, heart rot, structure, etc.
Will require a CDL and ISA-CA if the position is made permanent. On the job training. The State pays for training.
By and large, we don't remove healthy trees unless there is a building project, historical building/ structure preservation, etc. Almost all removals are dead/ dying/ defective, and sometimes downright Rotten.
Bucket pruning for camp ground and roadway clearance.
Position might come through as a cooperative agreement to work with WaDOT with their tree-related road projects, such as hazard trees, view pruning/ removal for traffic cameras, which we did for the first time after a big snow/ ice storm this last year and this past summer. Up to 25% of the crew time will be working on WaDOT projects on state highways and Interstates.
We do almost no clean-up. We mainly get the hazards on the ground and cut small enough for other staff (MS 029 wielding park staff and/ or convict work crews) to further process it.
Parks have tractors with bite buckets and forks. We have a very old log skidder, though the 20K winch is wicked, and it runs well, just small and low power compared to modern commercial machines, which means it goes through intact forests better. 6 year old 60' versalift, Bandit 250 with winch (which we rarely use ourselves) and about 500 hours, 5 year old F350 4x4 with 12k winch.
