Tractor & Skid-Steer Work in Lebanon, Oregon —
"A Guy with a Machine"

Tractor & Skid-Steer Work

Same job.
Better tool for it.

"Tractor service" is what most folks in rural Oregon call this line of work, and it's a fair name — historically, that's the machine that did it. We just don't run a tractor. We run a Manitou skid steer (with brush cutter and box grader attachments) and a Bobcat E50 mini excavator. For the kind of jobs you'd hire a tractor for, those two machines do the work faster, leave less mess, and get into tighter spots.

What people usually mean when they say "tractor work"

• Brush mowing — overgrown pasture, fence lines, fields. Skid steer with brush cutter handles this in a fraction of the time of a tractor with a brush hog.
• Grading and leveling — driveways, building pads, yards, paddocks. Box grader on the skid steer.
• Driveway repair — potholes, washboarding, drainage issues. New gravel, regraded surface.
• Ditch and drainage cleanup — pulling out years of fill from a roadside or pasture ditch so water moves again.
• Small excavation — stump pulls, trenching, footing dig, post-hole work, water-line trenches.
• Loading and moving material — gravel, soil, bark, clearing piles to a burn or haul site.

What we don't do

To be clear about what this page is and isn't: we are a hire-out dirt-work service, not a tractor dealership. We don't sell tractors. We don't repair tractors. We don't sell tractor parts, attachments, or accessories. We don't service tractor equipment or do tractor maintenance for owners. If you own a tractor and need parts, repair, or service, you want a tractor dealer or ag-equipment shop — try Lebanon Steel & Supply, Linn Benton Tractor, or your nearest Kubota / John Deere dealer.

What this page is about is hiring an operator with a machine to come do dirt work on your property. That's our entire business.

Tractor vs. skid steer — the short answer

Tractors are built to roll across pasture all day. They're great for mowing big open fields. But for everything else on a small acreage — driveway grading, brush in tight spots, tearing into a stump, digging a trench, prepping a pad — a skid steer or a mini ex is the right tool. They're more compact, more powerful per pound, and the attachments switch in five minutes.

If your job genuinely needs a big tractor (think: 20 acres of hay-field mowing), we'll tell you straight and point you to someone with a tractor. Most "I need a tractor" jobs we look at, we can do faster with what we already have on the trailer.

Typical "tractor work" jobs we get

• "My pasture is up to my waist." → Brush cut, knocked back to manageable.
• "My driveway is a washboard." → Re-graded, fresh rock, crowned to shed water.
• "Water is pooling along the fence." → Ditch cleared or new swale cut.
• "Tree came down — need it pulled and the hole filled." → Stump pull, backfill, tamp.
• "I need a level pad for a shed." → Site prep, pad cut and rocked.