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| 6141 FORESTRY WORKERS AND LOGGERS
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Forestry workers and loggers carry out the necessary
operations to cultivate, conserve and exploit forests, for sale
or delivery of forestry products on a regular basis to wholesale
buyers, marketing organisations or at markets.
Tasks include -
(a) establishing and caring for forest stands;
(b) locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber;
(c) trimming, topping and felling trees and sawing them into
logs;
(d) shaping rough wooden products from logs at felling site;
(e) stacking logs, loading them in chutes or floating them down
rivers;
(f) keeping watch to detect forest fires and participating in
firefighting operations;
(g) delivering or marketing forestry products;
(h) performing related tasks;
(i) supervising other workers.
Examples of the occupations classified here:
- Climber, logging
- Cruiser, timber
- Feller-bucker, tree
- Forestry worker, skilled
- Logger
Some related occupations classified elsewhere:
- Department manager, production and operations/forestry
- 1221
- General manager, forestry - 1311
- Labourer, forestry - 9212
- Managing director, enterprise/forestry - 1210
- Operator, forestry machinery - 8331
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