high-lining

Lumbering

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.

Quotations

1965

But many [high-riggers] just disappeared, as did the giant trees they had topped, limbed and rigged for high-lining.