Lateral bursting is a relatively new technique in the field of I trenchless infrastructure rehabilitation. Before lateral pipe bursting was introduced, trenchless methods catered almost exclusively to municipal or government projects: horizontal directional drilling for new utilities, guided pneumatic impact moles for bursting large sewer and storm mains and hydraulic rod-pushers for replacing other sewer and utility lines. All of these methods and machines shared a common scope of work — each was defined by projects that were large and public. By contrast, the first lateral pullers entered an arena whose jobs were small and private.
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