1943  In ground lead logging, at first the main line rubbed or siwashed around a stump in order to spool it onto the drum, but when the bull block was invented, ground lead logging prospered by leaps and bounds, and its inventor, "Tommy" Moore, was crowned with a wreath of salal and made immortal among loggers who know their stuff.
1952  Next [after the spar tree is otherwise rigged] the bull block is fastened securely in place at the top of the spar tree with steel cable and iron tree-plates. Through it runs the main line which pulls the logs in front of the forest.
1963   There's where you'll hear the mainline hum Through the bullblock, hanging high. . . .