Hydraulic question

Bountyhunter

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I have a "out of the box" question for the brain trust on here. I built my own front end loader on my B6100 and love it. I am using the stock hydraulic pump. I have two 2"x20" hyd cylinders plumbed in parallel for the bucket curl. I find that the bucket curl is quite slow. If I changed the plumbing to have the cylinders in series, would that speed things up. I know that is done on farm machinery often to make sure both sides lift at the same time regardless of load, but I have never seen it done on a loader. I know that there would be a difference in volume on either side of the piston due to the rod abut wonder if it would be enough to make a noticible difference. thank you for your answers

H
 

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I have a "out of the box" question for the brain trust on here. I built my own front end loader on my B6100 and love it. I am using the stock hydraulic pump. I have two 2"x20" hyd cylinders plumbed in parallel for the bucket curl. I find that the bucket curl is quite slow. If I changed the plumbing to have the cylinders in series, would that speed things up. I know that is done on farm machinery often to make sure both sides lift at the same time regardless of load, but I have never seen it done on a loader. I know that there would be a difference in volume on either side of the piston due to the rod abut wonder if it would be enough to make a noticible difference. thank you for your answers

H
It wont work at all in series.

Dan