This new, more-comprehensive edition adds coverage of the various pipe, joints and fittings now available, and is filled with photos, diagrams, charts, and examples to help you build a career as a successful pipeline contractor. It provides not only the hands-on instructions for operating the equipment and doing the trenching, pipe laying and connecting work, but the business end -- what causes so many skilled equipment operators and pipelayers to fail when they try to start their own pipeline business--Cover.