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Forestry and related workers plan and 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 performed usually include: establishing and caring for
forest stands; locating trees to be felled and estimating volume
of timber; felling trees and sawing them into logs; trimming and
topping trees; shaping rough wooden products from logs at
felling site-, stacking logs, loading them in chutes or floating
them down rivers" operating a simple kiln or digester to convert
wood into charcoal or extract crude turpentine from wood; keeping
watch to detect forest fires and participating in fire-fighting
operations. Supervision of other workers may be included.
Occupations in this minor group are classified into the
following unit groups:
6141 Forestry workers and loggers
6142 Charcoal burners and related workers
Note
Workers in agriculture and fishing with mainly managerial
tasks should be classified into one of the following unit
groups: 1 21 0, Directors and chief executives, 1221, Production
and operations department managers In
agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing, or 131 , General
managers In agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing Workers
who mainly operate agricultural and forestry machinery/ should
be classified into Minor group 833, Agricultural and other
mobile plant operators Workers with simple and routine tasks -
such as helpers and labourers - which mainly entail the use of
hand-held tools and some physical effort, and which require
little or no previous experience and understanding of the work
and only limited initiative or judgement, should be classified
into Minor group 921, Agricultural, fishery and related
labourers.
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