Forestry labourers

Forestry labourers perform simple and routine tasks to cultivate and maintain natural and plantation forests, and logging, felling and sawing trees.

Job Responsibilities

• 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