Forestry - Hidden Talents

A look at the opportunities the forest industry in SE of SA presents to people with good machinery skills

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[JupiterretipuJ]

Was für Baumplantagen! Gute Darstelleung der Entwicklung der Holzverwertung.Da ich seit 1963 im Wald gearbeitet habe,habe ich die rasannte Entwicklung der Holzernte,hautnah mit gemacht.

What kind of tree plantations! Good film pictures of the development of the wood utilization.Since I have worked in the woods since 1963, I have the Rasannte development of the wood harvest, made very closely.

Gruß Rolf

[Bushvision]

The tree plantations are Pinus Radiata (softwood) & Tasmanian Blue Gums (hardwood chips)

[RJM1011]

Is it possible that someone from the U.K. would be able to work in these forests if they where a forwarder O.P.

If they where willing to travel to Australia ?

[Bushvision]

Hi RJM, There are many companies in Australia & in parts of Australia there is increasing demand for forwarder & harvester operators. I expect it would only take a week or two to find work on these machines if you were qualified. You will need a work visa & have someone write a letter inviting you to work for them. Search for Australian forestry & hauling companies & make contact

[AresCassell]

I have made up my mind (after more than 7 years of college) to go into forestry. But I don't want to be in charge of harvesting trees. I want to do forest maintenance and preservation. Is forestry the right field then or should I look into something else? If so, then what should I look into?

[ticker511]

It was those men with the crosscuts who Raped the country.

[wrenbrrd]

Hang on. All this "Where will you get your toliet paper from? Where will you live?" regurgitated rhetoric. Did you hear that from your university professor who heard it from her university professor who heard it from his university professor? (Universities are in bed with huge corporations, big $, y'all.) Or did you just get it from the mainstream culture, which assumes massive human consumption & endless "growth" as an inevitability? Sorry, folks, civilization is not inevitable. It is a plague.

[AresCassell]

@AresCassell BTW, I'm American

[justforever96]

As for "alternatives", I was refering to PLAUSIBLE alternatives. PERSONAL responsibility is great, but it isn't likely to become a widespread thing any time soon. "If we all do our part"...most people won't do anything until it becomes nessecary. "Talking the talk" is all good, but actually changing how you live is much harder. People spend all their extra time on the environment like it's a hobby. As for the rest of the world, it's hard to worry about abstracts when you're facing starvation.

[justforever96]

I don't think that there were many trees around that took a day to fell. Maybe a day to fell, limb, and cut up for the really big ones, but you'd be surprised at how fast a gang of men can do something when they try. And don't forget, there was crosscut saws, etc. between the axe and the chainsaw. A crosscut with two good men can make pretty short work of a tree. It was the transport part that caused the most trouble.

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[IcarusInflight]

In the 19th century it took a gang of men a day to bring down a big tree and thanks to Mr Stihl who invented the chain saw and its variation as shown in the video hundreds of trees can now disappear in a day just with the flick of a joystick.

The alternative if there is one, is called personal responsibility, to treat natures gifts with respect and reverence and recognise that one can't keep taking and taking till there is no more. :-)

[justforever96]

Can anybody say "FernGully"? LOL, it's all coming true!

[justforever96]

"The machine has taken countless jobs from the workforce"...you're singing a song that has been around since the 1840's. Welcome to "progress", pal. Of course, there is a flip side. Someone has to build and maintain those awful machines, and imagine the number of deaths we'd have each year if all those tree were cut manually? I'm not arguing personally, just in general; I'm all for doing the work ourselves. Just don't complain if the price of wood products doubles as a result.

[justforever96]

You have a point as far as humans changing things wherever they go. But what are you suggesting as an alternative? That we shouldn't have gone there in the first place? Too late. Should we force everyone to move back OUT? Good luck. People are going to spread as long as the population rises. That is a fact. You don't have to like what humans do to the world, but unless you have an alternative, why bother crying about it. It is arrogance to think that humans can destroy the world. Just ourselves.