Seeking forestry work abroad

[Martinmct]

Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction to find work abroad?

Canada would be the dream, but NZ, Aus, or Europe would be great too!

I just want to keep learning and see what else is out there.

Mid 30's with own kit.

Ideally forestry as I currently don't climb.

Tickets including crosscutting and maintenance, felling under 380mm, felling over 380mm, felling over 760mm and large tree breakdown, Assisted fell, multi stem Windblow, in date EFAW+F.

Experience on a mixture of sites from skylines, static winches, felling to machines, processing oversized, specimen hardwoods, coppicing, commercial softwood, a complete mixture.

Have experience on machines from 360's with grabs and winches, tractors with blade winches and cranes, forwarding trailers, flails.

Happy maintaining machinery, working in piece or day rate, able to provide references.

Thanks.

[Rough Cutter]

Just go to Canada with a work visa.

[Stubby]

Don't . When your back , shoulders and  for arms are fcuked you will need the NHS . 

[Rough Cutter]

11 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Don't . When your back , shoulders and  for arms are fcuked you will need the NHS . 

Only the foolish rely on the NHS in this job.

 

[Stubby]

5 minutes ago, Rough Cutter said:

Only the foolish rely on the NHS in this job.

 

Ok .

[Brushcutter]

Total Harvesting in Australia. Have international blokes from time to time. The locations can be remote but they do have sites all over. Many years ago I was offered a job forwarding there.

 

UMP have operatives from time to time.

 

Instagram is a good way to make contact with American and Canadian loggers to look for work contacts.

 

In most of the world you would be looking for logging jobs if you want to be on the tools and a forestry job if you want to get into timber crusing.

 

If you want to be a BC faller then the certification is very expensive and a long process 

[Rough Cutter]

https://ca.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=fc19a813ae3bab53&from=sharedmweb

[MPK Operations Manager]

On 01/12/2024 at 03:30, Stubby said:

Don't . When your back , shoulders and  for arms are fcuked you will need the NHS . 

Can you elaborate on this? I'm interested in your experience working abroad and how you feel working abroad would be any worse than working in the UK

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, MPK Operations Manager said:

Can you elaborate on this? I'm interested in your experience working abroad and how you feel working abroad would be any worse than working in the UK

You would not have the NHS or whats left of it .

[Mike Hill]

At your age the ship has sailed unfortunately.

 

Unless you can get sponsored directly and thats pretty hard to do, unless you have a special skill set that precludes locals into the role. Canadians used to get sponsored to run Swing Yarders when they first came out in NZ for example.