garden tractor

As a child of the 69s I am familiar with garden tractors that were small, could pull a plow, and would bury the axle spinning before the transmission broke. I have a couple hundred yards of gravel driveway and trashed my poulan LT pulling a light blade on wheels. Is there a real compact tractor...

Might not be the right sub-forum for this, but hoping this works as a general "catch all"... Just finished seeding and strawing the lawn for our house build (hope to close/move in in 3 weeks or so). Doing it all by hand, I'm well aware of how much lawn I'm going to have to mow in the future...