Stihl Makes Food Plot Management Easy

By Ammoland

Lansing, Michigan – -(Ammoland.com)- It was on a golf course in the early 1970s, that I first saw one, while waiting on a tee box.

The groundskeeper was handling some type of gasoline-powered, handheld machine that mystically removed the high grass around a tree trunk. My amazement got the best of me and I stopped him in his tracks and asked him to see the apparatus. It was called a Green Machine, and when he told me where he got it, I plunked down $300 and had one of my own the next day.

That was the first line trimmer I had ever seen and it spelled the end of the hand-operated grass snippers. As ingenious as the Green Machine was in its day, it had issues and fouled out spark plugs on a frustrating basis. Still, it beat spending hours on hands and knees to get that well-manicured look.

Fast forward some 40+ years to country living, where managing a property for wildlife is an ongoing proposition. Felling trees, firewood, mowing and trimming never end. So, when I visited S &K Farm and Yard (south M-52, Owosso – 989-723-2369) to buy my …read more

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