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Inside the trunk, tree ID, soil texture, the planting hole, A300 pruning cuts, CODIT, tree risk and Z133 safe work. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 66 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the numbers 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.
It's nine at night, the crew is done, and you're at the kitchen table with the soil chapter. Sand, silt, clay, and particle sizes in fractions of a millimeter. You dig in dirt every week, and it still reads like a foreign language.
The study guide gives it paragraphs: decimals, size ranges, a textural triangle explained in words. By morning the numbers have run together. That's not on you. Nobody ever drew it for you.
In the book, soil texture is one page. Sand, silt and clay drawn side by side, biggest to smallest, with the USDA sizes in a box: sand 2.0–0.05 mm, silt 0.05–0.002 mm, clay under 0.002 mm.
The rest works the same way: xylem and phloem, the branch collar, CODIT's four walls, the planting hole, tree risk. Each one has its own page.
You picture the page and the three sizes come back in order. You answer the soil question without going back to the study guide.
Tree biology, tree ID, soil, planting, A300 pruning, diagnosis, tree risk, Z133 safe work and the exam review: 66 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
Exam question: a heavy limb has to come off. Where exactly does the final cut go? You've made that cut a thousand times. Now you have to pick the right answer on paper.
You open the page on the branch collar and the branch bark ridge and see the final cut drawn just outside the collar: no stub, no flush cut, the ridge marked so you can't miss it.
Same with xylem and phloem, CODIT's four walls, soil texture, the planting hole and tree risk: each one on its own page.
Arborist Exam Illustrated is 66 illustrated pages in 9 parts, ending with a review of arborist knots, the most frequent mix-ups and the numbers to know.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
Bark, phloem, cambium and xylem, sapwood vs. heartwood, growth rings, meristems, photosynthesis, stored energy and where roots really are.
Leaf arrangement and leaf types, winter ID by buds and bark, right tree in the right place and picking good nursery stock.
Sand, silt and clay, compaction, soil pH, cation exchange made simple, N-P-K and micronutrients, too little or too much water.
The planting hole, finding the root flare, mulch, staking, watering and transplant shock.
Pruning the way the exam asks it: the branch collar and ridge, the three-cut method, removal vs. reduction cuts, A300 objectives, how much to remove, and why topping and lion-tailing fail. You see the cut before you pick the answer.
CODIT's four walls, wounds and decay, biotic vs. abiotic, the diagnostic process, the disease triangle, insects and IPM.
The risk formula, the three assessment levels, defects, targets and mitigation, cabling, lightning protection, construction and urban forestry.
Job briefing, PPE, electrical hazards, chainsaws, felling cuts, climbing gear, two points of attachment, rigging, chippers and aerial lifts.
Arborist knots at a glance, the most frequent mix-ups, the numbers to know and an exam-day checklist.
At the end of the book: A final review with arborist knots, the most frequent mix-ups, the numbers to know and an exam-day checklist.
Exam-style questions for every domain, each with a short explanation of why the right answer is right, so you can find your weak spots before test day.
The mix-ups that come up most often (reduction vs. heading cut, thinning vs. lion-tailing, root flare vs. planting depth) on printable cards you can review on a lunch break.
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An hour a night is enough to go page by page: one topic, one drawing, one thing to remember. The botany finally has a picture.
Flip through the drawings you already know and stop on the ones that still feel shaky. The review part puts the mix-ups and the numbers in one place.
You get the why behind what your hands already do: where the cut goes, why topping isn't acceptable, how a tree walls off decay. Print it and keep it in the truck.
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Yes. That's who it was made for. Every topic is one page and one drawing, written the way a crew lead would explain it on the job, not like a botany textbook.
It follows the domains of the ISA Certified Arborist exam as ISA lists them publicly, and those domains are re-checked on the ISA website before publishing. The content is checked against ANSI A300 (tree care operations) and ANSI Z133 (arboricultural safety). It isn't built as prep for the Utility Specialist or TRAQ exams.
No. It's independent study material, organized around the public exam domains of the ISA Certified Arborist exam. It isn't the ISA study guide, it isn't built for state tree-expert licenses, and it isn't affiliated with or endorsed by ISA or ANSI.
No. It's a visual study aid. It doesn't replace a certification course, field training or your employer's safety program.
No. They're written for this book in the style of the exam, each with a short explanation. They are not official exam questions.
As a PDF by email, to the address you enter at checkout. The 2 bonus books come the same way.
No. It's a one-time payment.
Yes. The PDF is printable, so you can print the whole book or just the pages you want to keep in the truck.
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No more rereading the study guide with nothing sticking.
The branch collar, CODIT, soil texture: you see them drawn, and that's it.
You walk into the exam knowing where everything is.
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