Don't do it.

[Deere Dude]

In 2002 I tried pulling a heavy duty round bar out of a plot needed for a garden for my son. I backed by 3 month old GMC beautiful diesel dually up to it and hooked up the chain. One tug or two the chain slipped off and the hook put a 1" dent right in the center of a nice smooth black tailgate. I have the truck yet and is still nice except for my dented tailgate. Still bugs me.

 

[5030]

When I pull posts, I use the arms on the 3PH instead. Much less stressful on the loader that way and I have about 2 times the total lift capacity on the 3PH than on my loader anyway.

 

[big bubba]

OP: if one side of the quick attach lever was released, they may not have bent the loader arms, but the torsion bar. maybe they know that since they're cutting & re welding. if the tube is not bent too much, it can be repositioned without cutting using the right technique.
be advised tho the torsion bar will be compromised & easily torqued again. i like to use bungee cords to cinch down the QR levers, regards

 

[Doug Vee]

In 2002 I tried pulling a heavy duty round bar out of a plot needed for a garden for my son. I backed by 3 month old GMC beautiful diesel dually up to it and hooked up the chain. One tug or two the chain slipped off and the hook put a 1" dent right in the center of a nice smooth black tailgate. I have the truck yet and is still nice except for my dented tailgate. Still bugs me.

When we were much, much younger, my brother in law and I used to use our pickups to pull over trees and help with digging stumps out. We had access to 4 very large blocks where we used 5/8" wire and rigged them in series like a giant block and tackle. We had pretty good success doing this.
In 1989, he bought a brand new Ford F250 with the fuel injected 460. It was a much heavier truck than his old 1979 F150. It just so happened that he had another stump to pull out fight after he bought that new F250. The very first yank he put on that stumped, it popped out of the ground and sailed over the truck, landing on the hood of the truck. He immediately drove it straight to the body shop. I never did see the crunched hood, but he told me the story, laughing as he told it to me.
I am pretty sure he was not laughing when it happened.

Doug

 

[scootr]

In 2002 I tried pulling a heavy duty round bar out of a plot needed for a garden for my son. I backed by 3 month old GMC beautiful diesel dually up to it and hooked up the chain. One tug or two the chain slipped off and the hook put a 1" dent right in the center of a nice smooth black tailgate. I have the truck yet and is still nice except for my dented tailgate. Still bugs me.

Somebody borrowed my truck to run to HD. He returned it with a dent in the TG. I had to get it fixed, best thing I did. ( if you don't count it wasn't my fault )

 

[Jstpssng]

Somebody borrowed my truck to run to HD. He returned it with a dent in the TG. I had to get it fixed, best thing I did. ( if you don't count it wasn't my fault )

This is why I don't borrow.

Anything.

 

[scootr]

Don't be a borrower or a lender.

 

[ultrarunner]

Don't be a borrower or a lender.

Hamlet… Giligen’s Island?

 

[BackRoad]

...Scootr...!

 

[DaBear3428]

I was thinking about this method recently and wondering if you couldn't do the same backing the tractor rear wheel up to the post, Chaining up the post the draping the chain over the tractor tire then putting the rest of the chin under the tire, so moving forward would walk the chain pulling the post up. What think yee?

ok interesting idea but for my tastes it puts me and the sheetmetal on the tractor to close to the action.