A couple of years ago the tree in a back yard flower bed got so huge it started deforming the block wall, it had to go.
The flower bed fell into disrepair after my wife died, I am not a flower bed guy. I started removing the bed a few months ago. I gave away the retaining wall block, all 350 of them. Next I removed about 2 dump truck loads of dirt from around the old stump.
If you are in the market for a small tractor, don't even think about getting one without a front end loader.
Lots of removing what was left after having the huge stump ground, filling in and leveling, then down with the sod. I put out 2600 yards when I built my house 14 years ago. I had some good help from some energetic high school kids, it was hard work but not too bad. At 67 putting out one pallet was a major chore.
I calculated that I needed 51 yards to complete the project, there are 50 yards on a pallet, being an OCD kind of guy I drove back to town for 5 more pieces to complete the last row.
Done, this project whipped me. I spent two days filling, leveling and raking rocks (4 tractor buckets full) before I put the first piece of sod down. The picture is before I drove to town for a few more pieces of sod to fill out the row.