The tapping sleeve & valve method has been around for more than 60 years. The fun is when you need to insert a valve in-line. In my years as a contractor we would freeze the main on each side with a huge amount of dry ice. Since I retired about 30 years ago there may be a better way nowadays

I enjoyed doing this kind of work several times over in the last 15 years .I miss solving water supply problems .Steel work is good though it's being replaced by HDPE in some works .

I'm a retired 1104 sec.9 welder after 33 years. This kinda looks familiar haha. Man I really miss jobs like this and the guys especially. Real characters. I'd like to thank the engineers and scientists that constantly trained us. Keeping us alive. Thanks for the video makes me feel good providing natural gas to our country. Only in America. Beautiful.

Excellent work. Outstanding. From a safety perspective, It’s a fail. The entire hole needed shoring. I am the general manager of on-site safety for my pipeline company, and here in America, all cuts in the ground that are deeper than 4 feet, “will have shoring.” Per OSHA.

My son is an engineer in FL and SENT me pics of the same process on a 24" WATER line, 240 PSI. He oversaw the procedure down in the hole. I really wish he would not do that.