Description
Assists with cultivating, maintaining and protecting forests. Registration or licensing may be required.
Skill Level
4
Alternative Titles
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Specializations
- Fire Lookout
- Forestry Tree Pruner
- Tree Planter
- Tree Thinner (NZ)
Skills Assessment Authority
Caveats
Group: 8413 Forestry and Logging Workers
Description
perform routine tasks associated in cultivating and maintaining natural and plantation forests, and logging, felling and sawing trees.
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
Skill Level
Most occupations in this unit group have a level of skill commensurate with the qualifications and experience outlined below.