Forestry labourers perform simple and routine tasks to cultivate and maintain natural and plantation forests, and logging, felling and sawing trees.
(a)     Tasks include -
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.