haulback

1. (timber industry, countable) A small wire rope or line used to pull the main cable (or butt-rigging) back into position after a log has been hauled out.Examples: "We ran 3,000 feet of haulback and got only thirty-five logs."; "The skyline isn't interlocked with the mainline and haulback, and the mainline and haulback can't both wind the same direction at the same time."; "Butt rigging—a series of heavy steel links, swivels, and shackles—commected the main line to the haulback line and carried up to six chokers."countable

2. (mining, uncountable) A method of surface mining where overburden (the material on top of the coal or ore) is transported from an area and then hauled back after removal of ore or coal.Examples: "This includes mining systems R&D such as development of haulback techniques to redeposit overburden material in a beneficial sequence immediately behind the extraction operation to minimize costs and aesthetic and environmental damage."; "As a result, haulback systems are being designed in shich the strip mine is continuously filled in behind as the mine advances."uncountable