Lifting gear valve arrangement

A lifting gear valve arrangement for controlling a double-action lifting gear or an add-on unit of an agricultural commercial vehicle, comprising

• a continuously adjustable directional control valve having a floating position, the directional control valve forming a metering aperture to which an individual pressure compensator is assigned, via which a pressure medium volume flow flows to a working connection, wherein pressure medium flowing back via another working connection flows off to a low pressure or tank connection via the directional control valve;
• a pressure limiting valve fluidly connected to a working channel between the directional control valve and the working connection, wherein said pressure limiting valve is designed to be adjustable, so that the pressure in said working channel is adapted to be limited to different maximum values as a function of different operating states;
• and
• a control device moving the directional control valve to the floating position based on response of the pressure limiting valve.