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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

9:15 pm

How Important Is Grounds Maintenance? The trimmed and controlled beauty of nature that you find in parks and lawns of your house and office are the work of the ground maintenance workers who help make your house and your city a beautiful and a better place to live. If you are a ground maintenance worker, your job is not only beneficial socially, but it is aesthetically pleasing as well. And that is the beauty of the job which requires a lot of hard work from the workers. Similar is the work for tree surgeons who go at different places to cut off diseased branches of trees and tress which are leaning or almost dying. Their work is specialised and absolutely mandatory. What you need to be a Ground Maintenance Worker or a Tree Surgeon The work of maintaining the ground, at the entry level, requires no educational qualification. For a little higher post, however, a high school diploma is preferable. There are usually short training periods for people going for the ground maintenance job, especially if they are to deal with chemicals like pesticides, insecticides and fungicides. Besides, driving license is a must for those who want to take up driving responsibilities too. Otherwise this criterion is exempted. For a tree surgeon too, basic education is not necessary, but a basic knowledge of different kinds of plants and trees and how they function is necessary. It is a perfect job for people who love gardening and like being surrounded by plants and trees. Usually, in hiring a tree surgeon, experience with surgeons or apprenticeship with other firms are given much value since it is specialized job, not meant for everyone. . Thus, use your skills and your passion to choose what you love best. Job Description for Ground Maintenance Worker A ground maintenance worker has the responsibility of trimming bushes and branches, of clearing up the landscape area, of raking leaves, pruning and mulching plants. You also have to clean overgrown vegetables and tree branches and fallen leaves along with weeding and planting plants. Raking leaves, mulling and pruning them are your job responsibilities. If the plants are vulnerable to possible attack from insects and vermin, spraying pesticides is also your responsibility. During winter, if snow accumulates, cleaning them also form a part of your job. Specially during the monsoon when the plants are generally caught by the various insects, you have to carefully atomizer them to rid them of their disease. During winters, snowing is a common phenomenon which has to be later cleaned. Besides, the beautification and the precise sizes of plants planted indoors also falls under the category of works that you might have to do. Task for a Tree Surgeon If you are a tree surgeon, you will be called for specific jobs only. Like a surgeon, you have to carefully delve your way into the branches so that just the required part is cut off. . Besides, correcting leaning and potentially dangerous trees and lopping shears to cut branches at difficult areas are also part of your job. Not just rid them of the diseases, but to cure weak trees is also a tree surgeons duty. You also have to be sharp enough to notice which branches or trees can potentially harm human habitation and control their growth. Thus, choose to be a tree surgeon if you love doing these. Most companies have a need for grounds maintenance or a qualified tree surgeon then take a look at our site at one of the links. Grounds maintenance Current Mood: cheerful (Comment on this)