Don't do it.

[bearthebruce]

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?

Wouldn't there be some concern that all of a sudden, the post would let go and it would come flying up to smack you in the back of the head? It would be my concern.

Some guy said earlier in the thread, "Don't do it!"

 

[4570Man]

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?

There’s the risk that the post doesn’t move and the tractor rotates around the axle instead.

 

[ultrarunner]

I find chaining to the CAT dozer blade and lifting does the trick.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

You aren't supposed to pull post with the loader, you are supposed to lift them with the 3 point.

SR

 

[oosik]

My gate posts are REAL - 8x8 railroad ties. Sunk four feet in the ground. There is NO WAY my M6040 could pull those posts - even if my life depended upon it. It would be my hand shovel and dig, dig - etc.

Besides they have been - in place - for over 42 years and are now a part of Mother Earth.

 

[Bavarian]

I understand one side of the stump bucket was pulled from the QA after the loader arm bent.

Get rid of that crappy SSQA style. You wreck them with a 25hp tractor.

 

[CalG]

I got the sense that the original post was a "Don't do that" to responding to a neighbors request for help, with the example of the penalty for doing so.
I am made appreciative of this forum's membership by all the great comments of solutions to overcome the challenge. The response to the neighbor could have been...

"HEll Yes, I've got this great idea and I want to give it a try."
Glad to help you OUT!

I have gained much here!

 

[Williy]

The T post around the garden I have been able to pull some out by
hand the ornery ones have been using a bumper jack and chain haven't
tryed the tractor quick hitch yet

willy

 

[EddieWalker]

I have three tractors with loaders. Two are farm tractors that are 65 and 70hp. The other is a full sized loader backhoe with 80 hp that's supposed to be able to lift 6,000 pounds with the loader.

I can pull T posts and wood posts in compacted dirt with any of my tractors. But the only one that will pull a wood post in concrete is the backhoe, and when I do that, I get the RPM's up for more power. There is a pause when it maxes out, and then the post breaks free, and lifts out easily.

On a side note, there is a night and day difference between a post in concrete, and a post in compacted soil!!!!!!

 

[Doug Vee]

Neighbor lady called yesterday wanting me to bring the MX over and pull a gate post out. Knowing how rock hard our clay and rock soil is I declined and suggested they dig down some and cut it off.
20 minutes later I see my neighbor roar off the hill and down the road in her direction.
Today that tractor neighbor calls me explaining that he bent the loader and sprung a quick attachment pin or plate on the machine. He explained that he will cut one loader arm and weld it back on to reposition it.
Sorry to hear his misfortune. It's easy to exceed the loader capacity trying to pull something out of the ground.
If your neighbor asks you to do this just say no.

They are called "loader" for a reason.

 

[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.