Out past the reservoirs on Fitchburg's north edge the lots open up, the tree line pulls back, and on a clear late-summer day Wachusett sits blue on the southern horizon. Veteran Compact Tractor Service LLC works that kind of ground — wide lawns and rough field edges where a mower has to hold its line over uneven earth. Grass gets cut at a height that carries through a dry August, trimmed in around posts and stone walls, and cleared so the job looks finished rather than merely done. Spring and fall the same properties get their cleanups, brush and leaf and winter litter carried off. There is a particular pleasure in standing at the road afterward and watching a whole acre read the same from one end to the other.