Plotmaster vs multiple implements

[AntiqueIron]

I have an 83 HP JD 5083E. Have been planting food plots for two years now. Question is this...is the Frontier Plotmaster better than using specific implements. I have a cultipacker, disk and spreader that I use for food plotting. The Plotmaster has the following in order.

Disk harrows
Cultivator
Seed planter
Cultipacker
Drag

Here is a link to the model I am discussing for a visual. http://www.plotmasters.com/fp_1208.html

Most everything I plant (clover, alfalfa, etc...) calls for disk, pack, spread seed, pack again. It seems like for planting clover the Plotmaster would plant the seeds too deep with the order of implements. Is this correct? I know that they must do something right or they would not be selling them but seems out of whack to me. Thoughts? Experience?

Thanks

Get yourself an old seed drill and run what ya brung

I am of the opinion that any tool that does many things, does none of them particularly well.

Least my train of thought (or lack thereof, I’m not regarded as the brightest crayon in the toolshed), is that if these worked well, farmers would be all over them. Nobody Ive ever known or any operation I’ve encountered plants that way.

Least the way I’ve always done it, right wrong or indifferent has been to till once, pick rocks, till again, pick any residual rocks, fertilize, seed, pack.

You loose a lot of benefits associated with a time difference between stages, can’t pick rocks, can’t let muddy soil dry out, can’t really incorporate OM, can’t really let weed roots get exposed in soft dirt to bake and die.

I think those all in one units work, but are nowhere near as effective as a dedicated multi phase approach.

 

[kneedeep]

I agree with this 100%.
There isn’t a “One Pass Planter” made or will be made that works correctly. The time in between each pass contributes to the success of any agricultural endeavor.