Watlon believes it is his company's ''can do'' attitude towards projects that has helped Walton Earthworks grow so rapidly over the past 10 years.
Tim and his wife Anita run the business from their new Parsons Rd, Weston, base and are kept busy tackling projects as diverse as recontouring land for pivot irrigators and building cow lanes from paddocks to milking sheds, to building the Duntroon to Kurow section of the Alps2Ocean trail.
''It sounds funny, but making the bike trail uses the same concept as making the cow lanes. You need to make a nice, smooth job that will last but they're just half the size!'' Anita said.
The business started in 2007 with Tim working huge hours after buying a tip truck and a digger leased from a local farmer.
Now the couple employ 16 staff and their massive machinery collection includes 12 utilities, seven diggers, two bulldozers, two graders, four road trucks and two articulated dump trucks as well as a roller, a Bobcat, a loader, rutbusters and all the rest of the gear needed to tackle a wide variety of earthworks and irrigation projects all over Otago, Southland and Mid Canterbury.
The couple has strong family connections with the North Otago area.
Tim says he has always loved machinery and grew up watching his family working on farm improvement projects.
He left home as a teenager to try his hand at a variety of jobs including farming, paua diving and working in mines, all experiences which he credits with helping him enormously in his business today.
''And I've always thought `why can't we do this?' and work on ways to make it happen when I see a job, however difficult it looks,'' he said.
His farming background also gives him a good understanding of farmers' needs and he works with them to come up with the best and most cost-effective outcome.
Anita studied at Lincoln University and qualified in agricultural soil science, later working at AgResearch in Mosgiel as a laboratory and field technician.
Today she helps Tim run the family business and looks after their three children, Katelyn (11), Toby (9) and Philip (2).
The family live in Weston, the older children attending Weston School, and Anita said all three of them are machinery mad and like nothing better than helping Dad.
Tim said over the past few years, as well as many general earthmoving projects, his company has been heavily involved in dairy conversions, installing kilometres of irrigation piping as well as contouring the land for pivot irrigators.
The company looks well set to face the future with its new base on the outskirts of Weston, which includes offices and a workshop.
For this energetic couple, the future looks bright.
''We know it's a constantly changing environment and we work hard to keep up with it,'' Tim said.
