Small Tractor Services LLC

04/04/2024

Refreshing a driveway by scraping, flipping, and smoothing the existing gravel with the landplane implement and using the loader bucket to back drag. Then spreading and smoothing 10 yards of 5/8" minus across the smoothed surface.

02/29/2024

It's the time of year to get after those pesky invasive blackberries before they take off again. Between the tractor and a Stihl hedge trimmer, a (not literal) ton of blackberries were cut, dropped, and mulched. It's always fun to be out in the field.

01/03/2024

07/14/2023

From an impenetrable sea of blackberries and tall grass to an easy to access yard and open field area.

The tool and the before and afters.

05/08/2023

Got blackberry sticker vines overgrowing your land? The tractor and I can put them in their place. What/where is their place?... On the ground, mulched into oblivion.

It's the time of year that the blackberries are trying to overtake everything. You can ignore them, but we all know they'll just keep growing and growing and growing.

Check out these before and after pictures and see what a tractor with a rotary mower can get done. From overgrown to cleared ground.

I'd like to say 'No blackberries were harmed in the filming of this series.', but I can't. The tractor and I hurt them. Actually, we destroyed them.

05/02/2023

Day 3 - Final Day. Day 3 was spent using the box blade to rip up the remaining roots, ferns, and blackberries that were buried as I worked. There was a lot of picking up, loading, and moving the material to the slash pile. I've included a non-edited video from day 2 in which I show how to pick things up and put them into the loader. It's pretty exciting!

04/30/2023

Day 2. Some of the ground is beginning to be exposed. I dug out the largest stump to get it out of the way. After digging out the largest stump, I cut the other stumps down in size so they could be more easily accessed by a stump grinder.

04/30/2023

04/30/2023

Customer wants the smaller stumps removed, ferns dug up and relocated, the larger stumps minimized so that they can be ground down with a stump grinder, and the ground cleared and smoothed for future grass. I said 'OK' and got to work. Watch the progress over the next few posts.

03/12/2023

With incredible photography tricks not expected of a small business owner, I was able to condense a longer time into a shorter time. Watch for 28 seconds and see me and the tractor use the rototiller to transform a pasture to a new garden area. (I think it's called time-lapse.)

I tried to get the tractor to do some of the rock pick up, but it said something to the effect of... 'I'm union pal, and the contract doesn't say anything about me having to pick up individual rocks.' I couldn't find a counter argument, so I picked up the rocks. I respect its fair and intelligent argument.

End result = smooth and fluffy topsoil ready for planting.

03/10/2023

Clearing a fence line for a customer to install new posts and hang a new fence. The tractor clears it and I rake it.

No 'rake and shovel workout' on this one but the upside of just the 'rake workout' is that it isolates and builds the following muscle groups: the upper flexers, the rear extenders, the middle ache-ers, the side growing-olders, the repetitive back and forthers, and the wake-up sore-ers

You can ask your local trainer about these muscle groups and workouts, but they likely won't know anything about them. I'm on the cutting edge of the 'ers AND the newest coolest workouts. They don't teach this stuff in school. I know because I'm a teacher.

There are still a few limited spaces available to join in the workouts. Spots are filling fast! Demand is high and prices are rising (just for the workout spots, not for the tractor work).

03/07/2023

A new gravel parking area... Often I am so concentrated on what I have to do I forget to take the 'before' picture. That's what happened here. The before included a small stump that I took out as well as native soil that needed to be graded with the box blade before laying down landscape fabric and then the gravel. One thing about laying down gravel is that there is always the opportunity for a 'rake and shovel workout'. If someone would like to pay me to participate in the 'rake and shovel workout' I should have some opportunities coming up!