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haulback † Lumbering 
n. See 1942 quote. See picture at high-lead system.
See also: high-lead system
- 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.
- 1942 HAULBACK. A lighter line coupled to the mainline which hauls the logs in from the woods, operated from a second drum on the donkey through an arrangement of blocks. Its function is to draw the mainline and chokers back out of the woods to pick up a fresh "turn" of logs.
- 1966 Whether the mainline was to be pulled in, or the haulback to go out . . . or stop all operations depended on the correct number of whistles.
- 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.