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high-rigger
Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See rigger 1942 quote.
Quotations
1919
There are innumerable firms that have monopolized the services of the best hooker that ever gave signals for the high-rigger, while his short-handed crew changed the haul-back without the assistance of a grass-line.
1963
[Caption] A "high-rigger" topping a spar tree. He climbs the tree with the aid of spurs, belt, and climbing rope (a rope with a steel core), cutting off the branches as he goes.