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    Default Food plot seed bed prep - Perfecta

    I've run a 28' in the field, but have always been old school with a finishing harrow dragging a big pipe behind it for food plots...The 28' was way too big to run around in the woods, so I bought this for food plots...I'm impressed...It's going to pay for itself in time saved and quality of job...Git yourself one ........

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    Old news glad to see some others spend the coin on them. You can minimum till and 1 pass behind a bush hog if the soil is not terribly compacted.

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    So bush hog, run over with this thing one time and you're ready?

    You got a video of it in action?
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    Youtube for videos. I normally chisel and disc in the fall and final pass with perfecta. Plant my winter plots of oats. Bush hog real close in the early summer. One pass with perfecta to prep for planting beans, peas, sunflowers, and milo for browse.

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    Broken up enough for drill? What about broadcasting? Need more tillage work done?
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    What size is that and what kind of dollars those go for? I have a 16 foot batwing but something a little smaller would be more practical for smaller food plots.

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    Been wanting one for a while now...
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    I can just spread and cultipacker the seed in at that point. I spent $2800 on a new 8’ model about 6-7 years ago.

    FYI to OP and others. If you reverse the basket direction on the back it fluffs one direction and packs in the other direction. Not a quick change but 20-30 minutes and a few wrenches.

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    Do they have smaller units? Say for a 60 hp? What do they run price wise?
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    I sprayed with Glyphosate, bushogged close with batwing, one pass with heavy cutting harrow, fertilized, one pass with Perfecta.

    Plenty good enough seed bed for drill...Took out all the harrow furrows and tracks from fertilizing.

    VG - Check out the Unferveth Perfecta website and click under Seed Tillage equipment...Many sizes, and they say up to 7 HP per Ft required to pull, but in my experience in some heavy land in may be closer to 10 HP.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swift Strike View Post
    I've run a 28' in the field, but have always been old school with a finishing harrow dragging a big pipe behind it for food plots...The 28' was way too big to run around in the woods, so I bought this for food plots...I'm impressed...It's going to pay for itself in time saved and quality of job...Git yourself one ........

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    Have the same exact one. Worth its weight in gold. Best implement you can buy IMO.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheVisorGuy View Post
    Do they have smaller units? Say for a 60 hp? What do they run price wise?
    They make an 8’ that a 60 should pull fine. I’ve pulled my 10’ with a 75 hp no problem.

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    Thanks guys
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    I have an 8' that I can pull with 2wd 5045D John Deere on flat ground. It is heavy and I have to put a little dirt in the bucket to keep front end down when turning. You rarely find a used one so plan to buy a new one...

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    I have an 8' that I can pull with 2wd 5045D John Deere on flat ground. It is heavy and I have to put a little dirt in the bucket to keep front end down when turning. You rarely find a used one so plan to buy a new one...

    Here is a picture where I used the perfecta to cover spin spread oats in the fall.

    https://scducks.com/forum/showthread...light=perfecta

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheVisorGuy View Post
    Do they have smaller units? Say for a 60 hp? What do they run price wise?
    I believe new they are selling for around $500 per foot.
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    I think a lot of people are misconceived to think implements like this are going to save you time and money on field preparation.
    That is true....kinda.
    Field maintenance/weed prevention is your biggest hurdle.
    Let your fields grow in head high dog fennels, coffeeweed and other troublesome plants and you will never have it prepped in two passes much less one.
    I have fields that were sprayed twice this summer and can be no-tilled as they are now while others (that needed periodic discing) only need fire and one pass with the leveling harrow.
    However I have a couple that I f'd up and let crabgrass grow into beans/peas that will require multiple discings cause that shit wont burn.
    Anyway.....an ounce of prevention goes a long ways!
    Last edited by Calibogue; 09-29-2021 at 12:29 PM.
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    As much as I love the tiller looks and results I'd like to get away from all the moving parts and maintenance that goes with them. And sometimes it fluffs it up so much that you need to roll it. So many steps. For my plots behind the house no big deal but in the club and hour away: mow, spray, chisel plow or disc, till, drill, cultipack, etc. lots of back and forth
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    Spread lime every now and then, cut it, plow it, plant it, fertilize it and try not to think to much. Deer/dove hunters can burn 100’s quicker than a rapper in the strip club........

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calibogue View Post
    I think a lot of people are misconceived to think implements like this are going to save you time and money on field preparation.
    That is true....kinda.
    Field maintenance/weed prevention is your biggest hurdle.
    Let your fields grow in head high dog fennels, coffeeweed and other troublesome plants and you will never have it prepped in two passes much less one.
    I have fields that were sprayed twice this summer and can be no-tilled as they are now while others (that needed periodic discing) only need fire and one pass with the leveling harrow.
    However I have a couple that I f'd up and let crabgrass grow into beans/peas that will require multiple discings cause that shit wont burn.
    Anyway.....an ounce of prevention goes a long ways!
    Truism...

    Some plots I harvest for hay, some I spray with selective herbicide, some I bushog multiple times...If you let it get out of hand, there is no miracle implement to take care of it.

    Every implement is a tool and must be part of a bigger plan.

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