Spent 6 hours fighting a stuck drift pin, turns out it was my hammer angle

Last Tuesday I was trying to pull a rusted drift pin out of a trailer hitch I was fixing up, and after 6 hours of soaking it in penetrating oil and beating on it with a sledge, I finally realized I was hitting it at a 10 degree upward angle the whole time. Once I squared up my swing and gave it one good solid whack from straight on, it popped right out like it was never stuck. Has anyone else had a job where the fix was just adjusting your own stance or swing instead of changing tools?

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