The Timberman's tasks include shoring and sheet work for every underground utility project, including transportation, sewers, water mains and tunnels, electric, and communication lines.
From an issue of The Carpenter,
Joe Geiger, a seventeen-year member at a Brooklyn water main site. Geiger explained, "If you see lumber sticking out from any roadway you know the Timberman are on the job... People sometimes forget the significance of shoring. If shoring is left to unskilled workers, people's lives are being put at risk".On another Timberman job site, George O'Brien, Foreman for Schiavone Construction and longtime member, gave us a tour of an underground construction site at a subway stop in Brooklyn. "If I could say one thing to our members, I'd say that I strongly believe that all of our brothers and sisters should take advantage of the classes that our school offers to us... I have. I have taken every course available to us. The more knowledge you have the more valuable you are to the contractor. But more importantly, the more we know, the safer it is for our members and safety means that members will be going home to their families at the end of the day."
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