Soil health was not why i started using this method. It was just quicker and easier and i didn't have to haul a heavy ass tractor to the club. I haul a 4 wheeler instead and just use a roll of chainlink fence to drag the dead thatch down over the seeds. I do appreciate the benefit of having healthy soil and not just dirt. I completly understand clubs not caring about soil health, but thats just icing on the cake, when using this method. A drill would be the ideal way to plant, but they ain't no way i'm spending that kind of money to plant a few acres of plots for deer.