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high-lead yarding
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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any method of high-line logging; specifically and originally, a system using only one spar tree.
Quotations
1937
Logging in this district is done almost entirely with machinery; steam, oil, and gasoline engines and high-lead yarding bring in most of the logs direct. . . .
1966
High-Lead Yarding is most common in the Coast Region. One metal spar is used, its main line and haul-back line rigged to a stump or "back" spar 600 to 800 feet distant.