LOGGING — all kinds — including construction, operation, maintenance or extension of logging roads
This classification applies to commercial timber harvesting, including but not limited to the cutting, skidding, on-site processing and loading of trees or logs onto trucks for transport to saw mills. This classification also applies to the construction and maintenance of temporary logging roads in connection with logging operations.
This classification also applies to reforestation operations to plant new trees or timber growth management operations to control or remove brush or overgrowth when performed in connection with logging operations by the same employer.
When bucking, felling or limbing is performed by persons who furnish their own power equipment, including but not limited to chain saws under an agreement in which the rental value of such equipment is included in the contract price for such operations, not less than 80% of the total amount paid to such persons shall be included as remuneration.
Hauling logs to sawmills shall be separately classified as 2727, Log Hauling.
The grading of permanent roads, including permanent unpaved roads that are used for logging operations, shall be separately classified as 5507, Street or Road Construction — grading.
Log chipping, including the subsequent transport of the chips, shall be separately classified as 2710(2), Log Chipping.
Mill operations shall be separately classified.
Forest engineering or timber cruising operations shall be separately classified as 8601(4), Forest Engineers.
The removal of trees that retain no timber value when not performed in connection with logging operations by the same employer shall be classified as 0106, Tree Pruning, Repairing or Trimming.
Reforestation operations to plant new trees or timber growth management operations to control or remove brush or overgrowth when performed for other concerns on a fee basis and not in connection with logging operations performed by the same employer shall be classified as 0042, Landscape Gardening.
Land clearing operations, including the removal of trees in connection therewith, shall be classified as 2702(2), Land Clearing.
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LOGGING — all kinds — including construction, operation, maintenance or extension of logging roads Footnote: This classification applies to cutting, skidding, on-site processing and loading of trees or logs onto trucks for transport to saw mills. This classification applies to the construction and maintenance of temporary logging roads in connection with logging operations. The hauling of logs to sawmills shall be separately classified as 2727, Log Hauling. When bucking, felling or limbing is performed by persons who furnish their own power equipment, including but not limited to chain saws, under an agreement in which the rental value of such equipment is included in the contract price for such operations, not less than 80% of the total amount paid to such persons shall be included as remuneration. The construction of permanent roads, including permanent roads that are used for logging operations, shall be separately classified as 5507, Street or Road Construction — grading. Log chipping and the subsequent transport of the chips shall be separately classified as 2710(2), Log Chipping. Mill operations shall be separately classified. Forest engineering and timber cruising operations shall be separately classified as 8601(4), Forest Engineers. Reforestation and timber growth management operations performed for other concerns on a fee basis and not in connection with logging operations performed by the same employer shall be classified as 0042, Landscape Gardening. Land clearing operations, including the removal of trees in connection therewith, shall be classified as 2702(2), Land Clearing. | 1/1/2019 |
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