oldnslo
Super Member
It does it on both the raising and lowering of the boom. As far as float, I have not checked. That is an interesting question. If it does float, I am curious to see if the self leveling feature is still active.
The valve has an adjustment for when you move the boom cylinder attachment points from the "maximum lift" position to the "maximum height" position (and vice versa). This adjustment would allow for different cylinder lift ratios -- although I don't know how much adjustment is allowed.
Thanks for the info RK,
out of curiosity, does the tractor seem to work harder when lowering the self level Vs non-self level. That was one of the major drawbacks to our BDSL (Bi-Directional Self Leveling) system. It took more power to lower an empty bucket that it did to raise a full bucket. Our system didn't reduce cycle times enough for most operators to notice.
Reason I am so interested in this is that I installed and made operational the first BDSL package back in the late 80's early 90's. We have never heard of any other comapanies working on a BDSL package but we have not heard of anyone marketing them.
Roy