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LOL! Bobodu about the green thing.
Joes427vette,, the cylinders I used I just picked them out of random looking at the size of rod stroke and diameter, and the length from pin to pin fully extended and fully retracted. I got the measurements out of the Northerntool catalog and then took a piece of pipe and welded basically like pin holes or eyelets to each end. Made two of them, one the full extracted length of what clyinders measurement was and one in the retracted position and those pieces of pipe were what I did my measuring from and it all seemed to work out. As far as performance goes boom raise is about 10 sec. and boom down is a little faster at about 6 sec. I did the single dump cylinder just do to cutting costs. If it did not work I would have gone back and put on a second cylinder but it works just fine. I did have to weld some stops onto the bottom of the bucket were the boom attaches to due to the little to long of travel of the bucket dump cylinder. It would extend all the way out and then go make the bucket roll back under the boom when dumping and was not able to retract the cylinder because it was wanting to go the opposite direction it was really meant to go. The welded bucket stop solved that problem. Thanks to all the nice comments and I look forward to seeing more of yalls inventions and gadgets and whatnots. LOL