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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- The majority of Forestry labourers earn a salary between R2 796 and R8 805 per month in 2024.
- A monthly wage for entry-level Forestry labourers ranges from R2 796 to R4 703.
- After gaining 5 years of work experience, their income will be between R3 544 and R6 283 per month.
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Duties and tasks
- 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