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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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Forestry labourers - from R7 612 to R16 572 per month - 2025.
- A Forestry labourers typically earns between R7 612 and R14 026 net per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between R7 567 and R14 176 per month for a working week of 45 hours.
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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
