9215-Forestry labourers

Job Title: 

Forestry labourers

Job Description: 

Forestry labourers perform simple and routine tasks to cultivate and maintain natural and plantation forests,
and logging, felling and sawing trees.

Tasks: 

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.
Specific Occupations: 

92151
Forestry labourer

92152
Stump-grubber/ Tree planter/ Axeman

92153
Chokerman/ Chokerwoman

92154
Clearer, tree

92155
Climber, tree

92156
Swamper, logging

92157
Worker, timber: forestry

International Careers(ISCO): 
Source Of Info: 

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2425