**Headline** Stephanie Avery conquers the local tractor in Milo field! **Headline**
Labor day was actually used for working. Chris and I have been working on the farm to earn a few extra bucks. Well this week we were asked to gather the newly baled straw and stack them back on the farm close to the cow's corals. The farm has amazing equipment that does all the work for you, well, as long as it doesn't break down. Chris and I got on a little tractor (looks very similar to the one in the picture), the tractor had a hay wagon on the back of it. The job of the hay wagon is to pick the bales of straw with these little forks. It then places the bales on a conveyor belt and when it has two bales on it will flip the bales onto a flat surface, until there are 10 bales on. Then the flat surface lifts all ten bales up and stacks them an their sides. We do this 7 times until the wagon is full. We then take it to the farm and unload the stack. Chris drove the tractor and my job was to pick up the bales. Chris and I had the first wagon ready to go unload, when of all things, it breaks down. So Chris gave me a lesson on how to drive the tractor. I drove the tractor all the way home and learn how to use all the gadgets on the beast. The whole thing was a great learning experience and very invigorating. I can't wait to drive my next tractor.