DCHP-3

cold-deck

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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v.

build a cold deck; pile (logs) to make a cold deck.

Quotations

1930
Gasoline logging equipment has been developed to a point where it is now recognized as the standard of efficient methods of cold decking logs, yarding the odd corner or helping in the loading out of a few extra.
1966
The processes of yarding and loading, usually go on simultaneously unless the felled and bucked timber is to be "cold-decked," or "windrowed," that is piled for future loading.