Are you ready to harvest whole plant silage?

Harvesting whole plant silage

When harvesting whole plant silage, many contractors rely on high-performance mower combos with conveyor belts for merging swaths. Pöttinger looks back on many years of experience with mowers using swath merging and is the No. 1 contact partner when its about harvesting whole plants at high speed, but with care.

And this is precisely where the NOVACAT X8 collector leads the way when it comes to mowing: this mower combination has a working width of 8.3 m and is equipped with cross-conveyor belts as standard equipment. These enable flexible utilization of the mower combination in all operating conditions and working situations. The new conditioner with its large hood can now process the highest quantities of crop in a single pass. The crop is drawn away rapidly thanks to the large clearance between the conditioner and cross-conveyor belt. The NOVACAT X8 collector is available with the ED conditioner equipped with tines or with the new RC conditioner fitted with three conditioning rollers for lucern or other leafy legumes. If required the conveyor belts can be pivoted upwards and the forage is spread in a wide blanket. This guarantees an optimum drying phase. The swath boards, fitted as standard, enable three individual swaths to be placed as well.

NOVACAT X8 collector

If required the conveyor belts can be pivoted upwards and the forage is spread in a wide blanket. This guarantees an optimum drying phase. The swath boards, fitted as standard, enable three individual swaths to be placed as well.
The two conveyor belts can simply be lowered hydraulically into the working position again by pressing a button on the Power Control terminal. The forage is then fed from both sides into a large central swath. The swath can then be easily processed by harvesting equipment in the next pass. Highest efficiency and performance are guaranteed as a result.
The two cross-conveyor belts can also be raised individually. This means that a combination of swath and wide placement can be achieved. One cross-conveyor transports the forage to be placed between the swaths of the front mower and the other side mower. A width of around 3.5 to 4 m of the crop is then cleared. Using this configuration, the crop from more than 16 m working width of the mowers can be placed to form a swath blanket of around 9 m wide. The forage can be allowed to dry in the field and yet the windrower needs to rake as much as 40% less area.
NOVACAT X8 collector saves time and above all costs. This is the winning combination for increasing efficiency and silage production at the highest level.


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Created: 31.05.2011

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