Ford TW35 Power Beyond / Loader Valve Options?

BIL has a TW35 with a loader, running off the rear remotes. He's wanting to free them up to run a bale processor, so I'm trying to come up with a good solution. It's a 1984 by the serial number as close as I can see, has an analog dash and the valve stack is up in front of the rear axle on the right side, back to regular old pioneer couplers on the ends of hoses, not the newer-style mod. valves like an 8630. Questions -

I know Ford always had semi-oddball hydraulics, but is the valve on this tractor actually open center or closed?

Is there a spot to tap into to get power beyond-like flow to feed an independent mid-mount valve, or a line I can run another valve in series with the block that's already there?

It's really tempting to just put a mid-mount on it, then feed it off a rear remote, but the tractor only has three and he needs them all. A splitter valve could work, but I'd rather have it fully independent. Somebody HAS to have done this - Thanks!!
 
This subject came up a year or two ago with regards to loaders and TWs. At that time, we discovered that a company in Australia made a custom cover plate for the remote valve stack for plumbing in a separate power-beyond control valve. I think it was this website, or else at the other site. I'd hunt for it myself if the search feature at this site didn't suck so bad. Maybe someone else recalls where to find it.

And yes, everything about that tractor is open center as far as the hydraulics are concerned.
 
Any ideas what the make is of that valve? By the way, thank you Mark, the information you sent helps a pile, that gets me a long ways towards a solution!
 

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