sch.A-div.A-sdiv.03Forestry and Logging

sch.A-div.A-sdiv.03 Forestry and Logging

Subdivision 03 Forestry and Logging

| Column 1Group | Column 2Class | Column 3Title and Description | Column 4Rate | | 030 | | Forestry and Logging | | | | 030100 | Forestry | 8.27% | | | | This class includes employers engaged in growing standing timber both in native forests or in plantations or in timber tracts. | | | | | Primary Activities: | | | | | Forestry | | | | 030210 | Softwood Timber Plantation Logging | 15.00% | | | | This class includes employers engaged in felling softwood timber trees in plantations using fully mechanised equipment. | | | | | Primary Activities: | | | | | Logging, softwood timber plantation | | | | 030220 | Hardwood and Other Timber Logging | 15.00% | | | | This class includes employers engaged in felling hardwood and other timber trees in natural forests, using mechanised or manually-operated equipment, or other logging methods. It also includes cutting and shaping trees for rough-hewn products such as mine timbers, posts and railway sleepers, etc or in cutting trees and scrub for firewood. | | | | | Exclusions and References:Employers engaged in harvesting or logging softwood plantation timber are included in Class 030210 Softwood Timber Plantation Logging. | | | | | Primary Activities: | | | | | Firewood cutting (forest) | | | | | Logging hardwood timber | | | | | Mine timbers hewing (forest) | | | | | Pole hewing (forest) | | | | | Posts shaping (forest) | | | | | Pulpwood cutting (forest or bush) | | | | | Railway sleepers hewing (forest) | | | | | Rough shaping of forest timber | | | | | Timber hewing (forest) | | | | | Tree cutting or felling, natural forests | | | | 030300 | Services to Forestry | 8.27% | | | | This class includes employers engaged in providing services such as forest reafforestation, conservation or plantation maintenance on a fee or contract basis. This class also includes employers engaged in operating forest nurseries and employers engaged in gathering other forest products or in distilling of eucalyptus oil in the forest. | | | | | Primary Activities: | | | | | Eucalyptus oil distilling (forest) | | | | | Forest conservation service | | | | | Forest nursery operation or service | | | | | Forest planting | | | | | Forest products gathering | | | | | Pine cone collecting | | | | | Pest control service (forestry; except aerial or wild animal control) | | | | | Reforestation service | | | | | Resin gathering | | | | | Sphagnum moss gathering | | | | | Timber plantation maintenance | | | | | Timber tract maintenance | | | | | Tree pruning (forest) | | | | | Tree thinning (forest) | |