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Black Diamond Uses Every Onsite Resource in the Rough Founded in 2017 by father-and-son team Black Diamond is currently working on a 26-acre site that will be the location of more than 300 multi-family housing units. Robert Timberman and Robert Timberman Jr., Black Diamond General Contractors is a full-service earth work and site work company based in the Charleston Peninsula of South Carolina. They do a bit of everything — from groundwork, infrastructure work, water, sewer city work, city repairs — they even have a vertical construction division. “We do a lot of public utilities, site development, and we do some vertical construction, mostly in residential. We do commercial as well,” said Timberman Jr. “Essentially, what we are is a one-stop shop. We’ll get a site that’s completely wooded. We’ll clear it, develop it, install the stormwater, water mains, sewer mains, and the public utilities and hand over a finished product ready for vertical construction.” The Timbermans explained that one of the keys to success when developing a site from the ground up, is the ability to use as many onsite resources as possible. “The thing we’re probably most known for is the ability to go onto a site and use every resource of the site,” Timberman Sr. “We’ve got a 650M dozer, two said. “From the topsoil screening, the Black Diamond owns 17 Case machines, and many of them are currently 1150M dozers, one that has a Leica roots of the trees, recycling for mulch working on this 26-acre site. [machine control] system installed,” and those type of things that are creatTimberman Jr. said. “We’ve got an ed along the way…” SV212D roller. We’ve got a 921F Black Diamond currently is workwheel loader, a CX145D excavator, a ing on a 26-acre site that will be the CX300D excavator, CX350D excavalocation of more than 300 multi-family tor, a CX210D excavator, a TR340 housing units. The lot, once their crews CTL and its multitude of attachments, began initial clearing efforts, turned all running currently at this time.” out to have an interesting history. Timberman Sr. explained how the “When we moved on to it, it was skid steer is one of the most critical wooded. It dated all the way back to machines on the site from the first day the Civil War. And it was used, at that point in time as a sand mine, and also a see DIAMOND page 82 lumber mill for railroad ties,” Timberman Sr. explained. “That continued After the rough grade, Black Diamond runs two Case 1150M dozers in tandem — one all the way through the 1950s. And that’s of which is equipped with a Leica machine control solution. why you see the settling ponds and some of the other areas in the background which we are filling.” “When we got the site, we found a couple pieces of railroad iron from the early 1900s,” Timberman Jr. said. “This site was heavily timbered, and we had a lot of low areas that were holding water, not necessarily wetlands but just holding a lot of water with a clay bottom. So, a lot of our tracked equipment was having trouble getting through that. But the low ground pressure machines from Case really did the job in getting through there and getting us to where we can get to hard ground. Growing Fleet The Timbermans started Black Diamond with a single compact track loader — a Case TR340. Now, Black Diamond owns 17 Case machines, and many of them are currently working on this 26-acre site.
