“Like a lot of farm areas, it’s a marvelous place to live, but a difficult place to make a living,” he says. “If you take lumbering and farming out of the equation, there’s no business.”

So, he ventured into more commercial jobs and grew his business by working on golf courses throughout the Southeast. He also sought out niche jobs – anything in earthmoving. Eventually, he built a dual-capacity business with a fleet of equipment and trailers that could be transported from job to job and a fleet of bigger equipment for jobs closer to home.

Today, Glover Construction Company, Inc. does a lot of work in road and landfill construction and employs about 200 people. The company is the largest private employer in Northampton County. John Glover is proud of that and of the fact he offers so many people good, honest, everyday work.

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Great for the job

To do that good, honest, everyday work, the Glover crew relies on many pieces of equipment, including tractors. They make a lot of their own earthmoving tools – things like rollers and box blades – in a workshop on the company’s premises. Then, they attach them to the tractors. “It’s a great enhancement to what we do. We can spread and move dirt more economically than, say, a CAT grader,” says John.

When it was time to buy new 4WD tractors, he took a look at New Holland’s TJ line. The 4WD scraper tractors fit perfectly with his needs. Equipped with heavy-duty final drives, the industry’s largest-diameter bar axle, a heavy-duty scraper drawbar, differential locks and a tow cable, the tractors are ideal for earthmoving chores. He uses his TJ450 tractors to help maintain the roads he uses to haul dirt for highways and landfills.

John is also a horse trader, so he knows a good deal when he sees one. New Holland was number one on price, but the final selling point was when he attended a farm show and saw the TJ tractor up close. He liked what he saw, and bought two.