Tractor drivers who get confused with their left and right have salvation at hand with the automated swath placement system available for Pottinger’s Novacat V butterfly mowers equipped with Collect merging belts.

When shifting grass to one side, the new system automatically switches from left to right, saving the operator from having to work out where to place the first stage of a merged swath.

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With satellite guidance ensuring accurate cutting widths, this digital upgrade allows skipped bouts for smoother headland turns without the brain power needed to work out where to channel the grass.

Missing out alternate passes eliminates time-wasting three-point or sward-damaging tight one-way headland turns, and results in a less tiring day’s work for operators, suggests Pottinger.

And with the manufacturer’s Connect telematics system uploading data to field management records, the work pattern can be made available to rake and forager or silage wagon drivers with access to its Harvest Assist app, helping make subsequent operations as efficient as possible.