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Just a thought. You already have the set up built and it might be worth considering an air cylinder in place of hydraulic. You'd have to carry a compressor but when you opened the valve, it'd drop in a hurry. It might be worth studying out.
I Never had much to do with air cylinders but do know they use them on some blacktop plants to open and close the drop gates quickly. WHOOSH and it's open or closed.
A neighbor used to have a snowplow on his tractor that he ran the lift with an air cylinder, except he used vacuum off the intake manifold to suck it up instead of pressure, but that probably wouldn't provide enough cfm for your use.
I Never had much to do with air cylinders but do know they use them on some blacktop plants to open and close the drop gates quickly. WHOOSH and it's open or closed.
A neighbor used to have a snowplow on his tractor that he ran the lift with an air cylinder, except he used vacuum off the intake manifold to suck it up instead of pressure, but that probably wouldn't provide enough cfm for your use.