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high-rigger Lumbering 
n. See rigger 1942 quote.
- 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.
- 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.