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Pruning cuts, the branch collar, palm fronds, notches and hinges, the back cut, rigging, power-line clearances and chipper safety. Every topic gets its own page: first the drawing, then what you need to remember. 66 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the cuts, distances 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: 9 parts and 62 topics.
You're up in a sycamore with a limb to take off. You know exactly where your saw goes. Then you open the study guide, and the question asks where the final cut belongs, in words you never use on the job.
The manual covers it in a full page of text: branch collar, branch bark ridge, A300, final cut. Nothing shows you the limb. You read it, close the book, and by morning it's gone.
Here, the correct removal cut is one page. The limb is drawn with the collar and the ridge marked, and the final cut line sits just outside both. Next to it, the flush cut and the stub, crossed out.
Same with the rest: the three-cut method, the notch and the hinge, the palm fronds that stay, the minimum approach distance to the line. Each one has its own page.
You look at the drawing and match it to the cut you've made a thousand times. Now it has a name, and you can answer it without going back to the manual.
The C-49 and your exam, how a tree works, pruning cuts and A300, palm work, tree health and risk, climbing and gear, felling and rigging, power lines and chippers, and exam-day review: 66 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
You're sizing up a removal next to the street. The tree leans toward a service drop, and you need the fall plan before anyone starts a saw.
In the book, you open the page on planning the fall. The tree is drawn with everything you check around it: nearby trees, lean, loose limbs, wind, decay, power lines, terrain, even bees.
Same with the removal cut, the palm that isn't a tree, the five decay signs, the notch and the hinge, and the minimum approach distance: each one on its own page.
Tree & Palm Contractor Illustrated is 9 parts and 62 topics, all drawn, with the numbers to know by heart and exam-style questions with answers at the end.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
What the C-49 covers, when a job needs a license, the two CSLB exams (this book is for the trade exam, not Law and Business), the exam's words vs. the job's words, and the three standards behind the questions.
Bark to heartwood, branch collar and ridge, CODIT, excurrent and decurrent form, codominant stems, roots, the critical root zone and measuring DBH.
The removal cut, the three-cut method, reduction vs. heading cuts, the A300 pruning types, how much to remove, topping, lion-tailing, young trees, cabling and bracing.
Why a palm isn't a tree, the 9 o'clock to 3 o'clock rule, overpruning, no climbing spikes, dead-frond skirts, flower stalks and fruit, and Fusarium wilt.
Decay you can see, lean and root plate, target-defect-likelihood, dead wood and hangers, California pests and moving green waste.
PPE, the pre-climb inspection, the tie-in point, two points of attachment, rope and saddle checks, aerial lifts and chainsaw safety on the ground.
Planning the fall, escape routes, the felling zone, the three notches, notch depth and hinge, the back cut, barber chair, working load and lowering wood.
Minimum approach distance, line-clearance work, indirect contact, chipper safety, calling 811 and the drop zone briefing.
Pruning, palm and felling mistakes at a glance, the numbers to know, how to read a multiple-choice question and exam-style questions with answers.
At the end of the book: Exam-style questions with answers, the numbers to know by heart and the most common mistakes drawn side by side.
Test yourself with multiple-choice questions written like the trade exam, each answer pointing to the page that explains it, so you find your weak spots before exam day.
The most common pruning, palm and felling mistakes drawn side by side with the right way, so you can spot them on the exam and on the job at a glance.
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You've done the work for years. The book puts the exam's words next to the cut, the notch and the palm you already know.
Part IX gives you the numbers to know by heart and exam-style questions, each with the page that explains the answer.
Print the pages on minimum approach distance, the drop zone and chipper safety, and keep them in the truck for the morning briefing.
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Yes. It's not a beginner's book on how to prune. It puts the exam's terms and numbers next to the work you already do, one topic per page.
From the CSLB C-49 classification and study material, ANSI Z133, ANSI A300 and Cal/OSHA Title 8 (Tree Work §3420–3428 and the High-Voltage Electrical Safety Orders). The edition of each standard is listed on the sources page, and every power-line distance says which table it comes from.
No. It's an independent study book. It isn't published, endorsed or approved by the CSLB, ANSI, ISA or Cal/OSHA, and it doesn't come with a certificate or count as training hours.
No. It's for studying and reviewing. It doesn't replace hands-on safety training or the qualification required to work near power lines.
No. They're written for this book, in the style of a multiple-choice trade exam. They aren't official exam questions.
As a PDF by email, sent to the address you enter at checkout. The 2 bonus books come the same way.
It's built for the California C-49 exam and California rules. The pruning, palm, felling and ANSI Z133 pages apply anywhere, but your state's license exam and local rules may differ. Check them before you buy.
It isn't shipped as a printed book. It's a PDF by email that you can print: the whole book, or just the pages you want to keep in the truck.
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No more rereading pages that don't stick.
The removal cut, the notch, the line clearance: you see them drawn, and that's it.
You walk into the C-49 exam knowing where everything is.
Drawings make studying faster.
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