high-lead

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the cable, or main line (def. 3), used to haul in logs when using a high-lead system.

Quotations

1925

He yawned sleepily. "Got to fix a 'spar-tree' for a 'high-lead' to-morrow, so I better hit the hay."

1957

The caterpillar tractor is replacing the high lead.

1965

We high-lead-logged the slopes of the Iskut, tractor-logged the river bottom [and] built a road up the south shore. . . .