Jackleg Boogie Comments

A jackleg weighs about 65 pounds about three feet long. You put steel at the end 2,4,6.8.10 feet long to drill the rock to make a tunnel. It's hard to operate and very dangerous cause it's got an air powered leg about 6 feet long attached by a 2 inch heavy rubber hose with a lot of pressure. Many men have been crushed by it's power.
And remember if he looks like a miner and talks like a miner he probably is one. And what does a miner look like? Well he walks a little slow with an air of being tuff and sometimes a little bowlegged and he doesn't talk much.
Richard Roy age 28 of Chelmsford Ontario Canada was killed by a jackleg on Jan 7th at the Kidd Creek Copper Mine in Timmins ON.
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