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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any method of yarding logs by means of one or more spar trees and a cable system.

See: high-lead system,high-lining,high-rigging,skyline,spar tree

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1965

Mobile spar trees, which are monstrous self-propelled cranes whose thick booms bear a multiplicity of sheaves and cables, are used in modern high-line logging to replace the spar tree used until recently as the focal point for the complicated system of cables and pulley-blocks.