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Tree Feller
OFO Code: 621101
Last checked 7 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 621101
- Occupation
- Tree Feller
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- SKILLED AGRICULTURAL, FORESTRY, FISHERY, CRAFT AND RELATED TRADES WORKERS
- Unit group
- 6211 · Forestry and Related Workers
Official description
Forestry and related workers plan, organize and perform operations to cultivate, conserve and exploit natural and plantation forests.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Logger, Forestry Crosscutter, Lumberjack, Hardwood Feller, Chainsaw Operator, Tree Topper, Logging Contractor, Softwood Feller
- Keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in fire fighting operations, completing fire fighting reports and maintaining fire fighting equipment
- Locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber
- Training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators
- Operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs
- Controlling weeds and undergrowth in regenerating forest stands using manual tools and chemicals
- Collecting seed cones, pruning trees, assisting in planting surveys and marking trees for subsequent operations
- Operating and maintaining a skidder, bulldozer or other prime mover to pull a variety of scarification or site preparation equipment over areas to be regenerated
- Assessing sites for reforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees using manual planting tools and establishing and caring for forest stands
- Shaping rough wooden products from logs at felling site
- Stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers
2. Demand status
Demand evidence unavailable
No approved governed OIHD graph relationship is available on this deployment for this OFO code.
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3. Salary evidence
No approved governed salary observation or sourced snapshot salary record is available for this OFO code yet.
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5. Qualification
Qualification evidence pending.
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
National occupation classification. Industry and provincial context are shown only where a separate official source supports the link.
No source-backed modern OFO↔SIC 7 industry link has been ingested for this occupation yet. PathLens does not infer one from the job title.
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9. Decision tools
10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Ingested · identity spine active
Canonical OFO identity data has been ingested and validated. 1511 occupation records are recorded in the ingest artifact. - DHET Occupations in High Demand · Validated pipeline · graph publication not confirmed
The governed OIHD pipeline is active, but a successful populated graph run is not currently confirmed on this deployment. - Critical Skills List · Monitored · occupation linkage pending
Official migration sources are monitored, but PathLens does not infer visa eligibility or occupation-level eligibility from monitoring alone. - QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Candidate staging ready · not published
Qualification staging and human review are implemented; no qualification↔OFO relationship is published without an explicit source identifier or governed human review. - Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Acquisition active · no approved evidence on this deployment
Official QLFS artifact discovery is active. Dataset-specific schema, weighting, reliability and review gates remain separate; a discovered artifact or executable estimator does not itself create a public claim. - SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Partial · explicit source links only
PathLens preserves explicit source-backed SETA/activity links where present and does not infer modern SIC relationships from occupation titles.