Forestry and Logging Workers

Key Tasks

• •Maintaining forest roads, buildings, facilities, signs and equipment
• •Killing weeds, felling and de-barking non-productive trees and thinning young plantations
• •Collecting seeds, and cultivating and planting seedlings for reafforestation purposes
• •Applying fertilisers, insecticides and herbicides to individual trees and general forest areas
• •Maintaining look-out for fires in forests
• •Removing major branches and tree tops, trimming branches and sawing trunks into logs
• •Assisting with loading and transporting logs
• •Planning the felling of trees and determining the natural and intended fall of each tree
• •Clearing surrounding area of saplings and debris prior to tree-felling
• •Operating and maintaining manual and machine saws to fell trees and to cut felled trees into logs

Employment Projections to 2034