Rob,
A friend of mine had just bought a new Mahindra 2615HST for use on his 21 wooded acres. When the dealer called and told him it was in, he came over to my house and we went and picked it up for him with my trailer. After I made some bucket mods and welded some hooks on I took it home for him on a Friday afternoon. He called me on Saturday afternoon and asked me to bring my tractor over with some chains since he got stuck axle deep in a wet spot. (Only 5 hours on tractor, I should have brought my camera but wasn't thinking at the time). I got him out when I realized his front wheels were toed out. His tie rod had caught a rock or tree stump and was not only bent like yours but he had kept going and snapped it. Our dealer was closed for the day so we took the tie rod back to my garage, cut off the outer ends and I welded in a new center piece of 1/2" thick wall pipe. Since my tractor is the same as his the proper length measurement was close by. That lasted till 20 hours and got bent again exactly like your pic. This time we just straightened it in a vise using a pipe wrench and he was back in business again. Then I noticed the bottom of his front differential had 4 threaded holes so I made up two skid plates out of 3/8" steel (one for his, one for mine) and bolted them on. So far he hasn't snagged the tie rod again. When he's all done clearing his trails I'll weld him up another completely straight tie rod.
