drill-turners

Updated: May 4, 2025

Hour after hour passed, while the drill-turners took their places with the sledges, and the sledgers went to the drills the turnabout system of "double-jacking" with Fairchild, the eleventh man, filling in along the line as an extra sledger, that the miners might be the more relieved in their strenuous, frenzied work. Midnight came. The first of the six-foot drills sank to its ultimate depth.

Courtney Ryley Cooper - The Cross-Cut