Northstar9126
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I am looking for help with the hydraulics on an old snow plow that I want to put on my Deere tractor. My knowledge of hydraulics is very limited so any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a Deere 4300 with a loader and backhoe that I would like to mount a snow plow on. I want to remove the loader and attatch the plow to a frame that I have made to fit the tractor. I would like to be able to control both the side-to side and up-and-down movement of the plow using the lines and joystick that operate the loader if possible. The plow has two cylinders for angling the blade. Each of these cylinders has only one port. I suspect that when pressure is applied to one cylinder it pushes on the blade while the other has the fluid forced out of it, so that only one cylinder is really doing all of the work. The up-and down cylinder also only has one port. I assume that when the blade is being raised pressure is applied to the cylinder thus raising the blade and to lower the blade gravity forces the fluid out of the cylinder. I am wondering if I can replace both angling cylinders with one double acting cylinder that I could just attatch two of the existing tractor lines to control it. I would also like to replace the up-and-down cylinder with another a double acting cylinder, attatch the other set of lines from the loader to operate it. I don't really need down pressure but I am thinking that I would use the double acting cylinder to simplify the installation. Would this work? Is there another, better way to accomplish what I am trying to do? Thank you.