About Us

Staff Details 


Joe Forrest
Business Manager

My name is Joe Forrest, my wife's name is Carol and we have recently
purchased Rural Enterprises I was born and raised on a dairy farm south
west of Busselton and educated at Cowaramup Primary school followed by
Margaret River High school. I worked on the family farm and in the timber
industry until I went to the wheat belt at 22 yrs of age. I worked at Hagley
Stud in Tamin for 2 yrs, then I went contract fencing for 3 yrs. I eventually
moved to Hyden as a bulk fertilizer contractor and started the spraying
Business. I am well known in the Hyden and surrounding areas as the owner
operator of Forrest Aviation and Hyden Spraying Services spraying crops
and spreading urea by ground and air from 1978 to 1995.

These businesses were run and managed together with Carol.
We also owned a grain farm at Hyden. At this time we also established and
ran a 2000 sow free range piggery for 12yrs employing up to 13 people.
We sold our farm in 2005 and moved to Perth and started a The Pool Table
Shop in partnership with my brother Robert and wife Carol
We built our own tables and also imported top Quality tables from China.
We sold The Pool Table Shop in 2007 to Casa Billiards
Carol and myself then started Tuff Engineering where we manufacture
aluminium trade canopies for the back of 1 tonner utes and Trucks
I am also a pilot and own a 172 Cessna which is used for business and
pleasure.

Over this period we have employed many hundreds of people both
Permanent and seasonal. We had to house and cook for all our staff when we
were spraying, up to 15 people and Carol did all the cooking 3 meals per
daywith breakfast at 4.45 am.

We sincerely believe we understand your needs having experienced them all
ourselves. We are looking forward to helping you with all your staffing requirements

Manager Joe Forrest 

Carol Forrest 
Business Manager

I was born and raised in Hyden on a wheat and sheep farm. I was educated at
Hyden Primary School. I continued Year 8 - 12 at Merredin Senior High
School where we had to board at St Michaels Hostel.
After completing my TEE I returned home to Hyden where I worked at the
Hyden Post Office and then the general store. I became involved in various
community groups and played sport to pass the time away.
I met Joe Forrest in 1986 who at the time was our local spraying contractor
both ground and aerial. We worked together and expanded the business to 6
ground spraying rigs and 3 aero planes. In that time we purchased a farm and
grew wheat and lupins.
 
We also established a 2000 sow out door piggery selling 800 pigs each week
In 2005 we sold the farm in Sept and moved to Perth in November. We had
the Pool Table Shop in Belmont. During this time Joe had traveled to China
and started importing pool tables. We sold that business in Nov 2007. We
now have an aluminum manufacturing business in Maddington building
trade canopies and campers. and aluminium trailers
I have been fortunate enough to have traveled through Asia, Europe,
America and around Australia.

March 28, 2009 we purchased Rural Enterprises from Tom Wilson and have
moved the premises to Redcliffe. My aim is to provide good service to the
agricultural areas for their staff requirements. I am also keen to promote the
Rural Safe programme so as to make our rural industry work safe. If you
have any queries please contact us or come and introduce yourselves at our
office.

Manager Carol Forrest