[AT] One-way cylinder

[Gunnells, Bradley R]

The other day while mowing hay the Select-O-Speed in the trusty old Ford started to slip. So not sure what’s up with that tractor yet. On my mower conditioner I have a cylinder that’s setup as a simple one-way cylinder. I’d like to keep it that way as I have a WD-45 I’d like to use on it at some point.

For the time being I thought I’d use the John Deere 2640 (late 70’s machine) but wondered if I can use the cylinder with just the single hose? I assume I can plug it into the lift port to raise it and then drop the handle to the float position to bring it back down? I didn’t see anything in the manual that addressed this type of use.

Thanks for any thoughts.
Brad