General Info:
Ron the Tractor Guy is owned and operated by Ron Carpenter.
I specialize in helping small farmers attain greener healthier pastures and Hay fields; I am a certified Oregon Herbicide operator and applicator. I also love working on making perfect garden spots for my customers, and doing all sorts of custom tractor work. I usually have local grass hay for sale as well as healthy vaccinated beef calves.
I have been driving small and mid-size tractors off and on for the last 30 years. My love of tractors actually goes back further than that; one of my earliest memories in life is riding on a combine when I was 4 or 5 years old in the farm country between Amity and Salem, nearly 40 years ago. I went to high school in Willamina, Oregon where I took every AG class that was available. I was also involved in FFA all 4 of my high school years. In 1980 I started working on a farm just down the road from my parent's house. The farm was owned and operated by Ron and Jeanne Pittman. While working on the Pittman farm, I was introduced to most type of tractor driving. The farm had over 1000 hogs, 150 acres of fescue hay, hundreds of acres of wheat and barley, plus a couple dozen head of cattle. I worked for the Pittman's for over 5 years, while attending high school and college. For the next fourteen years I was not around farming much (although my heart was never far from it). We--me and my wonderful wife, Kathy--focused on raising our 4 children and growing our faith in God. In 1990, we purchased a small farm outside of Canby, Oregon...and, of course, a tractor too! During this same timeframe, I was working at a paper mill in Oregon City and learning the trade of a millwright where I was able to drive operate and repair almost every type of machine in a paper mill. From 2001 to 2009 we operated a small fruit stand at the corner of our property; we raised strawberries, blueberries and raspberries, as well as a couple head of locker beef each year. In 2003, we purchased our first new tractor (a 33 HP Kubota) in order to start a custom tractor business. Our clientele quickly grew though we used just a Roto-tiller, bucket and a 5 foot brush hog for implements. Since that time we have grown to the point the have three tractors (all over 40 hp), a full set of haying equipment and more than a dozen implements to serve our growing customer base. In June of 2010, we decided to run our farm and Ron the Tractor Guy custom tractor work business full time.