Tractor driver's ed

With another snow storm headed our way this past weekend, we had to move hay for the herd and flock. I decided it was time for K8 to learn how to drive the tractor. No special class, just 2 minutes of showing him how to start it, change gears, make it go, make it stop, and operate the hay spike. He said backing up was the hard part.

But once he had the bale of hay on the spike, he had no problem driving forward.

Or turning.

I had him drive around for a while. The real tough stuff like climbing hills and brush-hogging will come later after he gains more experience on level ground.

After a long winter we have lots of "spots" around our various paddocks where we fed big bales of hay to the animals - like this big brown spot. Once the snow melts this week and it dries out a little, K8 will burn the areas that still have leftover hay, so we can then spread orchard grass seed on them. We need to get it growing, so we can cut more hay in two months.