old log

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a log that has lain underwater for some time, having sunk during an earlier drive, retrieved for drying out and processing as lumber.

Quotations

1964

Lumber from these "old" logs dries 20 per cent better than lumber cut in the bush. . . .