Ullett Construction Relies on Bobcat Equipment To Work Where Other Machines Can’t

Inclement weather can stop work for days and the region’s large sedimentary rock formations present their own challenges. In Tim’s specialized line of work - building custom, in-ground pools - the steady creep of residential development, with larger homes and tighter lots, can also make work difficult.

What Tim can control is the equipment he and his crew rely on to build some of the most sought-after pools in Eastern Ontario.

“The equipment we run means everything,” said Tim, a lifelong resident of the Ottawa area. “If your equipment isn’t running, if you can’t depend on it to perform, you’ve got big problems. 

“We’ve been able to rely on Bobcat equipment and we’ve been successful with it,” he said.

Evolving and growing his business with Bobcat equipment

Fresh out of high school, Tim took to the construction trade, framing houses during Ottawa’s housing boom in the late 1980s. By the early ‘90s, however, Canada’s recession reached Ottawa’s housing market and Tim decided to diversify into landscaping. 

With a fleet of Bobcat compact loaders and excavators, Tim oversaw about 20 employees who framed houses and completed landscaping projects throughout the greater Ottawa area. 

“Getting into landscaping brought in work,” he said. “Housing slowed and people were just fixing up what they had.”