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Steel round tubing. It’s an old-style Pioneer Forecart that we just got used and it was involved in a runaway horse accident that bent the ends of the shafts closest to the horse. Both shafts have a slight rightward bend. On the right-hand shaft, this is fine as the bend is away from the horse’s shoulder but, on the left, it pokes into his shoulder a bit.
This is the best image I could find of the shaft style that we have:
Ideas we’ve come up with so far (but haven’t yet tried) are:
* Get a length of pipe with an inner diameter slightly bigger than the outer diameter of the shaft, somehow immobilize the shaft (possibly between two fence posts), fit the pipe over the end and lever it
* Arrange the shaft so that it’s leaning on the ground with the unwanted bend pointing up and hit the bend with a sledge hammer
* I know that an appropriately sized commercial pipe bender would probably work, but we don’t have one.
