While not wanting to pick on the fella, I thought about it and have to agree with you that his expressed pulling technique is the most dangerous and dumbest thing I have read here.
Every once in a while posters are guilty of talking out of the respective anuses, usually due to ignorance. Some guys do get belligerent or stubborn about it, and I don't feel the need to argue with them as it is like wrasseling in the mud with a porcine. You ain't gonna win, cause said porker likes it.
Thing is, when a man brags about beating up on his equipment and doing something incredibly dangerous, I have to believe he is basically full of carp and just looking for some attention.
Therein, my reaction. Also, It is likely no one would actually behave this way and survive being around farm equipment very long.