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Pipeline - Excavator - methods for longwall pipeline activities - KENTUCKY
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11 days
Boston, KY

This class will be 2 weeks in length, 6 days a week, Monday - Friday, 10 hours a day. This class is geared toward the construction activities that are happening in the eastern portion of the United States and the effects that the Long Wall Coal mining operations are having on the pipeline infrastructure. The following subjects will be covered: 

1. The proper procedures to isolate both ends of the pipeline and excavate the pipeline.

2. The proper procedures to strip open the pipeline that is loaded/live. 

3. How to properly work with a dozer while stripping open a loaded/live pipeline. 

4. How to install air bridges, where to install air bridges.

5. Discuss how to install Stopples. 

6. Discuss the process of cutting sections out of the pipeline.

7. Discuss and review enviromental concerns.

8. Proper ditch digging procedures

9. Enviromental concern

10. Discuss monitors and strain gauges

11. other activies may include - pot-hole procedures, trench box procedures, loading and unloading pipe, carrying pipe, and fabrication.  

This class will be 2 weeks in length, 6 days a week, Monday - Friday, 10 hours a day. This class is geared toward the construction activities that are happening in the eastern portion of the United States and the effects that the Long Wall Coal mining operations are having on the pipeline infrastructure. The following subjects will be covered: 

1. The proper procedures to isolate both ends of the pipeline and excavate the pipeline.

2. The proper procedures to strip open the pipeline that is loaded/live. 

3. How to properly work with a dozer while stripping open a loaded/live pipeline. 

4. How to install air bridges, where to install air bridges.

5. Discuss how to install Stopples. 

6. Discuss the process of cutting sections out of the pipeline.

7. Discuss and review enviromental concerns.

8. Proper ditch digging procedures

9. Enviromental concern

10. Discuss monitors and strain gauges

11. other activies may include - pot-hole procedures, trench box procedures, loading and unloading pipe, carrying pipe, and fabrication. 

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