cold deck n [cold not in use, reserved]
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3 In logging: a stack of logs intended for later transport or use. chiefly Pacific NW Cf cold-deck v 2, deck n 1, hot deck n
1924 OR Sunday Jrl. (Portland) 15 June sec 3 15/2, He would have gotten at least 100 loads more but his cold deck which contained all the large logs burned the month previous. 1934 Bellingham Herald (WA) 29 May 10/7, Working on the cold deck, from which the logs are loaded onto trucks, Mr. Maleng looked up to see a big log hurling down upon him. 1938 (1939) Holbrook Holy Mackinaw 260, Cold deck. A pile of logs left for later loading and hauling. 1941 AmSp 16.232 MT, Cold deck. A pile of logs stored for transportation later. 1958 McCulloch Woods Words 36 Pacific NW, Cold deck. . . A big pile of logs yarded up to a swing tree in the woods; or stacked up any place away from the immediate logging; or stored at mill or other location. 1958 Porterville Eve. Recorder (CA) 4 Mar 1/6, The preponderance of the timber being sawed out of the cold deck is ponderosa pine. 1966 Mendocino Beacon (CA) 11 Mar 9/5, Fortunately our local mills have not been hampered by a log shortage due to a foresighted buildup of large cold decks last summer. 1988 Register–Guard (Eugene OR) 12 Jan sec C 1/1, Many mills are still trying to rebuild cold decks (log supplies) depleted by the six-week woods closure ordered because of the forest fires and fire danger late last summer and fall. 2000 Bellingham Herald (WA) 25 Apr sec C 6/7, [Advt:] Sale of a log cold deck located at WSDOT’s Upper James Street Maintenance Site.