A 4-day class designed to inform laborers of the applications, tasks, and safety measures of horizontal boring operations.
Subject matter covered in the course includes:
General applications
Pit preparations
Excavation safety
Line and grade
Machine operations
Casing and auger functions
Lubrication uses
Machine safety
Graduates must demonstrate their knowledge of the working of a boring machine, what tasks must be performed, how to prepare the pit, how to keep line and grade, how to work with lubricating mixes and how to work safely around a boring machine.