Straightening a bent dozer carriage

The torque tube is absolutely bent, its not the carriage. However the large plate that the carriage mounts to is also bent. I'm not about to hack that HUGE tube off, notch it and weld it all back together (3 days of work) So I opted for the "use a bigger hammer" method; in the form of a 28,000lb telehandler with a log for a buffer. I bound the front tracks together at an angle so that most of the force was on the tip

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