Forestry labourers

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

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