Tilling 3 Acre Yard with Sub Compact Tractor; John Deere 1025R Tackles Huge Landscaping Project! 

I just did my first extra job for pay with my 3025e. Used the grapple to pick up junk and put in a 35’ dumpster the home owner provided and then ran the rotary cutter to finish out. $50 an hour for 6 hours. I felt good about it and your videos helped motivate me to give it a try. Thanks. ☺️

I grew up on a 260 acre dairy farm in Wis. We had 2 Ford 9N - 25 horse tractors and I spent a lot of nights plowing fields until midnight and going to school the next day. Yes, you can do a lot of work with a small tractor. I really enjoy your videos. Keep it up!

that area looks like heaven, so beautiful , good land and far away neighbors.

You can never have enough tractors. Johnny has done more that I would have thought but a big brother to Johnny would be a great addition. You all take care and God Bless

Speaking as a salesman all my life, I can smell a new tractor coming.

Love your attitude Tim, you have a great outlook and we are indeed in the service business to serve our customers , great job my friend

I've watched three times this doesn't get old to me thanks for videos

listening to you around the 13:00 mark in the shop. You're a good man Tim

You guys please be safe in the rough time our world in. Thanks for the films

Tolling in both directions is always the best

Nothing sounds better than a diesel grunting. Nothing smells better than fresh turned dirt. Yours truly Sally

following you from Puerto Rico, I have 7 acres flat great land and this coming year I expect to move there and enjoy farming as a retired person. Great video, let see another, is like classes for me.

Like the video Tim & Tracy you 've done excellent job .and we did the end too here Ontario Canada ,

it would be interesting to do a follow-up visit and see how her yard looks now!

I enjoyed your video. I really miss disking for my uncle with a little 730 John Deere. It was so easy to drive when I was 13 & 14.

Great job Guys Tim dont underestmate yourself or Johnny you done a great job Christy i hope your foot gets better very soon good luck guys

You are spot on with the customer part. Many times you have to push your machine beyond what its meant to do and hope for the best. Once you start your committed! You own that job until its done.

TTWT's content is a little kid & a big mans dream.

Thank you Tim hope Dad keeps geting better .Job like this just take time thanks for the great video.

I call it John Deere therapy! I too have a 1025 with a tiller and did 2 acres on my 4.5 acreage to get t it ready for seeding after house construction. My 48” Frontier tiller did a great job even with all the rocks. Enjoy!

I just picked up my new 1025r with 70 hours, love to see the videos, hopefully it stops raining here! Keep up the good work Tim!

I really like using a reverse rotation tiller for rocky areas. The rocks tend to not get stuck as much. My small 30in hydraulic tiller is reversible which is really nice to be able to flip it around for different conditions. Though I tend to use it most in reverse rotation. Where I live, all the topsoil was stripped and sold and all we have is clay. It’s a real challenge getting grass to grow.

Gotta comment again, Doing a job this weekend where I'll be pulling brush with the backhoe at $35 an hour (Usually charge $50. an hour but person is someone I know and they are just down the road so brush hauling can be done with the grapple) and I'll be doing it at 10 hour swaths at a time as the customer can afford it. Still just starting out so also using the job as experience and advertising. Used to clear bland using much larger equipment (D8K) so it will be a learning experience for me as well. Biggest worry is that customer is happy with the job when I am done. and yes, your videos are a BIG help. thank you. Last note. My first job was over 10 hours with a shredder with the 1025 during August in south Texas. Customer was thrilled with the job (burnt over 12 gallons of fuel, Machine earned it's keep that day.) and Yes, i can honestly say that the longest day on your own machine doing honest work beats the tar out of any day working for someone else.

Again a great video!!! Been a watcher for a bit and never a dull moment. Thanks guys!!!

Great job Tim and Christy !!! You all take such pride in your work ! Don't see that much these days !! I think of an elder deacon friend of mine that says " It's not how high you jump , it's how straight you walk when you hit the ground " !!! You all are a great example of that ! Such a good witness !! I love it ! Christy take care of that foot. Listen to your body , it will tell you when enough is enough !! Be safe and God bless you all !!!! Eddy

Awesome job ,, would love to get a huge job like that ,, I miss farming a lot hard work but so satisfying..

My first thought was to use a disk . Thanks for mentioning why you couldn't. Great video as always.

This was a trip down memory lane for me. I spent many hours sitting on the tractor doing the same thing. Used my 1025r to plant just under 3 acres. Tilled it with the same tiller, raked with a 6 foot landscape rake, and then spread starter fertilizer and seed. I laid down 450 lbs of seed. I did rent a brillion seeder to apply the seed. This saved me as we had some heavy rain several days after seeding. I feel the washout was way less due to the cultipacker on the seeder. Great video though.

I just love to watch your videos simply because your just nice people. Keep up the good work. And great videos and commentary

Wow that's such a nice flat open piece of land. Forget grass I'd be planting vegetables there. That's plenty of room for a nice garden.

I have a 3038e it worked good just wasnt strong enough to pull the box blade . So we went and purchased a 4044r with power reverser great tractor strong enough to pull six foot disc ,and five foot tiller.

Our 18 month old son rarely gets to watch TV. But he is obsessed with my 1025r so we threw this up on the TV. I've never seen anything on the screen hold his attention like Tim tilling.

Thank you for uploading.

I enjoy watching your videos it be nice to see what the yard looks like later in the season

Awesome work Tim and wife .

Great job, I like dragging the property after tilling. It helps level it and break it up a little more.

Makes me glad I chose the 2038r. Probably the best $$$ I have ever spent

My tiller I extended the rippers away from the body and braced it and mad more room so rocks don't jam and bend the tines as bad works great. And great video big yard work great job

That was definitely a big job for a little tractor. Your point about finding a way to get a job done even if you run into unexpected problems is so true. The first job I did for a customer there were tree roots and rocks everywhere I was tilling

New subscriber here: You two look and sound like two very sweet persons, glad I have found you on RU-vid and looking forward to watch more of your "adventures" ;-)

Nice job, now at the end finishing with the lights on working till dark that’s the farmer in him. You are right when doing work for others you are there to do a job so you figure the best way to complete the job and make your customer happy and do a good job that you yourself would be happy with if it was your personal property. I just keep in mind a couple extra dollars out of each job to keep up with maintenance of your equipment. Keep the great videos coming. Thanks again, Jeffrey Misch

Good job guys, I just bought that same tiller for mine. my garden is 65'x65'.

When i was young at my parents home we had about a quarter acre that wasnt used(an old pasture).My father said we re gonna make it good;my uncle came in the fall with his molboard plow and he came back in the spring with a disc,we put seed on and he harrowed it;3 weeks later the grass was up and the field was really pretty!

We grow grass in clay up in Michigan. The ground is either clay or sand here. It takes a little more TLC to get it to germinate but it does. Thanks for the videos, especially this one. We are doing the same thing come June here in SE MI, built a house and had the same problem this homeowner had.

Hi, I have done a lot of tilling, what we did on a soil liken you are going through, but take the first tilling a little higher and when you do the cross tilling set it to full depth. That worked mike UK

The tr3 rake works really well for ripping up and smoothing out. I’ve had mine for about 20 years. Just used it again today.

What a nice T-Shirt

Tim The Sub Compact Tractor King? That amount of tilling with a tractor that size and in the time you did it is impressive!!!

A good job done .... Nice to see Johnny all "Lit up"! :)

I have the same concept. The builder brought in some orange sandy dirt.. not clay but definitely orange sand not sure what you call it. But its just around the house for the grade. I have 3.5 acres and plan to rent a rototiller to do the same. I have a 25hp tractor now just not a tiller. The nearest sunbelt you can rent the tiller for like 90 a day. You guys did a great job and mine isn’t as level but very close. Thanks for the vid!

Good job. That is huge yard. At least it was flat. I used to work at Grissom Air Force Base but that is way north of where you are. Good job. I hope they grow a lot of trees there.

"Watch the field behind the plow turn to straight dark rows". A line from a song by Stan Rogers. You reminded me of the farmer in that song. Nice job, and big. Sure sounds like you just about have yourself talked into a bigger tractor!!!

When I need more weight, I strap a trash can or barrel to the implement and fill it with water. Easy to regulate the weight and when your done you just empty it.

About ten years ago I tilled 12 to 15 acres with a 5' tiller behind my 29hp tractor. That job took me three days. I never did finish - with only a few passes to go, the tiller gear box broke off a tooth and it jambed up and split open the box! $600 repair bill later I now prepare by plowing or cultivating before I run the tiller. Breaking up the soil like that goes a long ways to ease the burden on the tiller. Thanks for the videos.

Would love to see the lawn after it has been mowed a couple times. Nice job!

Been so wet in central Indiana this year. Friday was so nice then more rain into snow over the weekend.. I'm ready for summer

Very nice job, well done!!

My soil is still muddy up here in NE CT, been picking rocks with the backhoe prepping for the King Kutter XB I ordered today. Your videos have helped me make a lot of these choices, so thanks for doing what you’re doing. 👍🏼🍻

all I can say is "Thank God for slip clutches!"

Not boring. I want one.love from Sydney

Farming's an easy life! lol I love that. Your father sounds a lot like mine; it's a tough life.. Spent many nights sleeping behind the seat of a Case 1486 baling alfalfa hay

i had the same issue you had wit johnny and the sod and wet dirt with my little blue when we tried out the mower deck for the first time. the wet tall grass from last year made him bog down big time the little guys really love to show what they can do though!

this video is very close representative to my place in Wyoming. Except I have 7 acres (5 acre empty lot that borders the 2 acres the house sits on) basically all flat and a lot of clay soil. Last 3 seasons I've mowed it with a 42" John Deere D130 mower. Not this year, I'm so sick of spending all weekend mowing. I'm not even sure I can get my kids to mow even by paying them a lot. Your videos demonstrate the versatility and usefulness of a compact tractor. Last Mother's Day my wife wanted me to till a garden. Great lady, works hard at our family business (Thisjoyfulhome) and it was her special day. Well she laid it out on engineering paper, I about fell over when I saw the scale. Her garden was 50'x100'...and clay soil! The only tiller I had on hand that day was a little 6" wide by 4" deep (felt smaller than that) electric tiller she used to till around the house. We live in rural Wyoming so on a Sunday on Mothers Day there aren't a lot of stores open that have equipment for rent. Anyway I managed to convince her to shrink the garden to 20'x20'. Took me all afternoon and evening to till with that little electric tiller. She got her garden though. This year I would like to give her that big garden but this time using the proper equipment. I'm glad I found your channel! A lot of useful information and enjoyable entertainment. Appreciate your sense of humor! Best! Jason

Tim Cristi I enjoyed hope there grass grows we had a blizzard here lot of snow 20 to 30 inches with wind gust to 50 mph God Bless PaK

Evening Tim & Christy. I think it took 2 1/2 hours to till the whole yard. Enjoyed the video. Thank you for your time. Christy, sorry your foot is not getting back to normal sooner. I will be praying for you.Y'all take care and God bless.

You should do jobs like this on a Saturday morning that way you have plenty of time! The travel sounded like it took half the time of doing the whole job! Otherwise, it’s impressive what that did and to be honest I would have guessed much longer. Thanks for the longer vids! Very enjoyable.

Hey guys, I'm down here in Australia, love the channel and the info you guys present. After watching your youtube I have gone and ordered a new rotary hoe for my new Kubota bx2680. I do a lot of small acreage property jobs and am loving this machine to death. Stay safe and keep up the fantastic work, Regards, Ian, Gecko...

I bought my wife a little 3038e for Mother's Day a couple of years ago. She couldn't really operate the clutch on the bigger tractors. We only live on 80 acres so she can trim around the fields with the brush hog in a couple of hours. We do have a finish mower and use it to mow most of the yard. We built her a pallet fork frame that fits on the quick-tach and bought two forks so she can move stuff around.

We farmed SW of Houston. Always called them Turning Rows. Most of our fields had Turning Rows but if I could pull the rows up to the road I preferred it. As Turning Rows are wasted land due to the amount of compaction from driving over them for the turns. Crops dont grow well with compacted soil.

Years ago I had a five acre yard for my house and after tilling I got myself a 6 by15 foot chunk of chain link fence and put a six foot piece of railroad tie at the tractor end and pulled it all over for a few hours, it busted up the clots and leveled the yard at the same time, just say’n :)

Great vid Tim

Looks like a good job form 2 tractors running at the same time.

Thats a lot of work. I like the tractor and the tiller. Awsome job ... (-:

Hey Tim from iowa falls iowa here we do the head lands here also as you said mid west thing like watching your videos to see your reviews on things keep up the good work and having fun god bless

Didn't even thought you can do such hard work with those small tractors. Well done!

Here in the northern coastal plain of South Carolina farmers I work with do the end rows more like you did in this video. But it seems like the shape of the field makes a lot of difference in the way they do it. Great video! Debating a sub compact or compact tractor, so I've enjoyed the videos as you guys look at tractors.

Good stuff enjoyed that!!

Big job for a Big Tractor lokks great .Sir

I’m really enjoying the longer videos! More time to watch that green machine.

WOW! Big job for lil' Johnny! When are we gonna see the new Super Equipped tractor? Woulda come in handy for this job for sure.

LOL watching someone till is like watching someone doing freshwater fishing

Great video Tim the tractor did a good job considering the size of the yard

That's getting a lot done in the amount of time you spent and yes rock reck a lot of stuff

Tim, I farmed in VA. and NC. and we never went out in the road, we did just like you, do the main part of the field then the end rows. Oh well to each their own. Great job, give Johnnie a rubdown and a fresh quart of oil.

Johnny did a great job! I agree that it's a shame what was done to that area where the topsoil was removed.

Hek 5 hours for that yard isnt bad at all.. a Saturday afternoon really..these type of videos i really enjoy watching..

Watch your engine hours Mates! (He's the only truly un-biased observer of the project...) Good as usual. Sorry about your foot...get well soon! (always appreciate your contributions!)

one thing that TTWT should mention when doing dig or tilling videos is land owners know where utilities are at and tractor operator knows where they are as well. some videos can be construed as you just getting on and start digging - which can cause lots of problems. just a thought for future videos.

Ol Johhny never lets you down, even when you Sneak Case onto a job site behind his back lol

Nice video Tim shows what can be done with small equipment, but shows why you might need a bigger tractor.

When we’re harvesting we do perimeter then the middle and work our way round each side

It just save a lot of time to just turn in the road. 👍 video

Pulverized top soil with organic mulch about 2 inches thick would probably help those stripped areas. I worked for myself for 18 years doing painting/paper hanging/lawn work and I agree, you have to comply with what the customer wants. Sometimes they don't have a clue! No offense met on Johnnie's abilities, but I think I'll wait for a 10125 to come out. So what if I become airborne. I'll see if green tractor has wings I can order.

You guys did a good job nice video

Great video!! Keep up the amazing content!

my 4 year old loves watching yalls vids... he loves tractors... well now he has me hooked and now i want to buy some property just to give the wife a reason we need a compact tractor lol

I've gotta say Tim your swag level went up a ton with that TTWT flat brim.

Nice job!

If/When you go up to a bigger tractor the speed control panels are nice. When I was doing the brushhog the cruise control was nice for the straights. I can't imagine that the tilling is any different.

There's a lot of truth to the old saying" time is money"... When it comes to tilling.... patience is king..... unfortunately we've been conditioned to " instant gratification". Be patient and bid accordingly.