See also: deck ((v.)) hot-deck
- 1930  Gasoline logging equipment has been developed to a point where it is now recognized as the standard of efficient methods of cold decking logs, yarding the odd corner or helping in the loading out of a few extra.
- 1966  The processes of yarding and loading, usually go on simultaneously unless the felled and bucked timber is to be "cold-decked," or "windrowed," that is piled for future loading.