Gleaner M2 very dusty, need help!!

Joe Pro

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I have been running my new to me M2 the last 3 nights and everything has been going really well.
My problem is that it is really hard to see particularly at night.
I'm cutting soybeans.

There is tons of dust in front of the cab window. It's almost as if the front feeder beater is pouring out dust faster then feeding in beans!!
It is next to impossible to see where I'm cutting as the dust is so think. It is a little better sometimes when I change direction.

Is there anything I can do to help this? Something I can add, adjust?
I know my beans are running about 12 percent.
 
Really nothing you can do to generate less dust- very dry dusty beans here as well....if you have floating cutterbar, and no header height control....this is what I used to do...mount a rod on the thresher housing in front of the cab window. Run it through a steel ring on the lower part of the cab so it raises and lowers in front of the window as you r/l the header. Raise the header until the cutterbar is just touching the ground.....put a strip of black tape on the window, even with the top of the rod. Drop the header until the cutterbar bottoms out, and put another tape on the window at that point. When combining, keep the rod between the two tapes and you will be in range for header height. Paint the to of the rod in white, orange, etc. for better visibility.
 
Welcome to beans, the ruiner of air cleaner elements everywhere. Ugh.

Add lights down on the table. Think of a car with fog lights - you are cutting under the dust to light things up. Also, weld a drag chain to the steer axle that drags on the ground for about a foot. We always had one growing up and I didn't see the merit in the "lightening chain". It helps the build up of static and will keep a little of the dust off of the windshield of your combine. That dust there makes it even worse. Also, it's handy when the neighbors keep asking you when you lost your anchor. Ha ha. Dumb neighbor.

Also, leave yourself a trail. When you are cutting an oddly shaped field don't cut the full width of the last pass in. That way when you turn around you will have a way to follow out and not be "lost" in the dust in your own field. Dad told me that years ago and it has always stuck.

Some years when it is still it is horrible. There's nothing you can do but end up with a headache. You can't switch directions and find a breeze to save your life. That's when I remember I'm just glad to have a cab on the 9500 and I'm not cutting with the old Massey we had years ago.
 
Same here. Cleaning air filter every40 acres. Awful dusty this year. Best to hope for a good cross wind.
 
This is one of the worst years with dust.As posted below very good things to do.Myself the chain on the back axle and coating all the windows with rain x helps. A farmer down the road just bought a new machine last week.Friday he was combiNing with his 30 foot head and I honesty couldn't see his machine in the cloud of dust in the middle of the field until he turned at the end to see that he was in his new machine and not his old one.Good luck as the beans are drying down real fast around here
 

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