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Read articles →This episode follows Tim and family attempting to excavate two buried cisterns or wells on their farm, using a John Deere 2038R with a grapple bucket and no thumb, a real-world limitation they work around throughout. The video is unscripted and problem-driven, covering debris removal, water management (pumping missteps), concrete disposal as erosion control, and depth discovery. Best for owners curious how a compact tractor handles messy, unplanned rural property work.
Tractor Time with Tim is an owner-operator hobby-farm channel focused on compact tractor projects, presenting themselves explicitly as non-experts sharing relatable trial-and-error experiences rather than professional guidance.
It is harder without a thumb, since picking up bricks and debris is less precise, but the operator still manages using the grapple to separate materials.
They found that one cistern was probably thirty feet deep to start, with twenty-five feet remaining after dumping concrete into it.
They haul the broken concrete chunks to a ditch where riprap had washed out, using the concrete as erosion control to stop the ditch from eroding further.
