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Trunk anatomy, tree ID, soils, pruning cuts, risk assessment, pests, pesticide math, Z133 safety and felling. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 64 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the numbers, cuts and rules you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 60 topics.
You're standing in a front yard where a contractor parked an excavator over the roots for a month. The oak is thinning at the top, and the homeowner asks you what the trucks did to the soil.
You know the ground is packed hard. But the study guide covers texture, structure, pore space and bulk density in four dense paragraphs, and by morning the terms run together. Nobody ever drew it for you.
In the book, soil gets one page: sand, silt and clay drawn by particle size, the pore space between them, and the same soil before and after it gets compacted. You see exactly where the air and water went.
The same goes for the branch collar, opposite vs. alternate buds, signs vs. symptoms, the risk rating and Z133 PPE: each one has its own page.
You understand it, you explain it to the homeowner, and you answer the exam question without going back to the guide.
How a tree works, ID and measurements, soils and planting, pruning cuts and A300 terms, tree risk assessment, pests and pesticide math, job safety and felling, and a final exam review: 64 pages, all illustrated
Think of it this way:
The exam shows a heavy limb and asks where the final cut goes. Or a homeowner points at a big maple branch and asks why you won't cut it flush to the trunk.
In the book you open the branch collar page and it's drawn: the branch bark ridge, the swelling of the collar, and the final cut just outside it. No flush cut, no stub.
Same with the three-cut method, the felling notch and hinge, signs vs. symptoms, the risk matrix and minimum approach distance: each one on its own page.
Licensed Tree Expert Illustrated is 8 parts and 60 topics, all drawn, and it ends with an exam review: how to read each question, the numbers to know and a last-week checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
How a tree works, drawn layer by layer: bark, phloem, cambium and xylem, rings, photosynthesis, stored energy, buds, roots, water movement and CODIT. The biology questions stop being a list of names.
Opposite vs. alternate, leaf shapes and margins, red and white oaks, maples side by side, northeastern conifers and how to measure DBH, height and crown.
Soil texture, structure and compaction, pH and nutrients, planting at the root flare, mulch depth, girdling roots and the tree protection zone.
Where every cut goes and why: branch collar and branch bark ridge, the three-cut method, reduction vs. removal vs. heading cuts, pruning objectives, live crown limits, young trees, codominant stems and cabling.
Turn a defect into a rating you can defend: the two risk matrices, the three levels of assessment, targets and occupancy, crown, decay, root and lean defects, and mitigation with the written report.
Signs vs. symptoms, PHC/IPM, emerald ash borer, spotted lanternfly, hemlock woolly adelgid, oak wilt, Dutch elm, beech leaf disease, abiotic problems, the pesticide label and the math.
The pages to keep in the truck: PPE under Z133, the job briefing, electrical hazards, chainsaw kickback, climbing systems, knots, rigging and shock loads, the felling notch and hinge, escape routes, chipper and aerial rescue.
How to read each question in order, the numbers to know on one page, mixed-up terms, common field mistakes, where NJ, Maryland and Connecticut publish their license requirements, and a last-week checklist.
At the end of the book: An exam review with the numbers to know on one page, mixed-up terms, solved sample questions and a last-week checklist.
Test yourself topic by topic and see why each answer is right, so you know where you stand before exam day.
Flush cuts, volcano mulch, buried root flares, bad hinges: each mistake drawn next to the right way, for a quick review.
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You read one page a night: the drawing first, then the few lines that go with it. The exam terms finally match what you already do with your hands.
The review part puts the numbers on one page and solves sample questions in one order: tree, cut, risk, safety. You go through it in the truck between jobs.
Print the pages and keep them in the truck. When a client asks about a flush cut or a cracked leader, you show the drawing and explain it in the right words.
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It covers the topics that state tree expert and arborist license exams test, such as the New Jersey and Maryland Licensed Tree Expert exams and the Connecticut arborist license: tree biology, ID, soils, pruning, risk, pests, pesticides and safety. Tree ID and pests focus on northeastern species. Each state sets its own requirements, so the last part shows you where to check yours. If you've been working trees for years and haven't taken a written exam in a while, it's built for you.
From ANSI A300, ANSI Z133, the ISA Best Management Practices for Tree Risk Assessment, EPA pesticide label requirements and the study material published by state boards (e.g., NJ, Maryland, Connecticut). Standards get revised, so every safety distance, pesticide rate and state requirement is flagged right on the page: check it against the current official edition before your exam.
No. It's an independent illustrated study book, not published or endorsed by any state board, ANSI, ISA, OSHA or the EPA. It doesn't give you a license, a certificate or ISA CEUs: it's what you study with.
No. It doesn't replace required training, supervised field experience, climbing and safety training, or your state's official study material. It helps you understand and review it.
No. They're written for this book to help you practice topic by topic. They aren't official questions from any exam.
As a PDF by email, sent to the address you enter at checkout. The 2 bonus books come the same way.
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You can print it yourself. The PDF is laid out one topic per page, so you can print just the pages you need and keep them in the truck.
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No more rereading the study guide with nothing sticking.
The branch collar, the hinge, the risk matrix: you see them drawn and you've got it.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything is.
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