DCHP-3

cheese block

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a wedge-shaped steel or wooden block placed on the bunks of cars to prevent the loaded logs from rocking.

Quotations

1942
Perhaps the most usual [method of dumping] is the "parbuckle"--cheese blocks are knocked out on the water side, cables are passed under the loads and hooked to the cross-log at the brow of the apron.