US Patent 11919738 Apparatus for lateral cable pulling and pipe replacement

A compact, open path vertical cable pulling apparatus, having a low center of gravity and composed of two detachable, single person hand-portable components. The apparatus is competent to pull cable horizontally through space underground with a pulling force in the range of at least about 20 to 100 tons using low pressure flow hydraulics and has utility in the cable pulling industries, including in the drilling and horizontal directional drilling industries, and as part of a method for pulling cable through space, including pulling cable through space in the pipe bursting and trenchless pipe replacement industries.