Forestry labourers perform simple and routine tasks to cultivate and maintain natural and plantation forests, and logging, felling and sawing trees.
Skill level:
Unskilled
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Tasks and duties
- Digging holes for tree planting
- Stacking and loading logs and timber
- Clearing undergrowth in forest stands and thinning young plantations
- Maintaining look-out for fires in forests
- Removing major branches and tree tops, trimming branches and sawing trunks into logs
- Operating and maintaining manual and hand-held machine saws to fell trees and cut felled trees and branches into logs
- Collecting seeds and planting seedlings
- Performing minor repairs and maintenance of forest roads, buildings, facilities and equipment
