SIDEBOOMS
PIPE HOME
LINCOLNSHIRE
FIRST STEPS
STRINGING
FRONT END
INSPECTION
COATING
LOWER & LAY
TIE-INS & FABS
SIDEBOOMS
AUGER
TUNNELING
HD DRILLING
TRENCHING & BACKFILL
PIPELINERS
REINSTATEMENT
THE LAST TIE-IN
OLD TIMES
DEREK's 1966
Have Your Say
TOM THOMSON
The sideboom is the iconic workhorse of the Pipeline. I have put a few samples of its job on this page, but a click on the first picture will connect you to a video just about sidebooms, with a bit of incidental music.
Another sideboom job is working with the augerbore crew
Working as a team to feed the last few feet of the pipe into the HDD bore at Celcon
Tie-ing in a run of mainline at Mitchell's Farm, Ightham.
Headed off to another job
Don't keep looking into the ruts, lift your eyes to the heavens now and then
The last tie-in to the Celcon HDD
Feel free to download and use images. (c) Mike Taylor