I guess we're beginners if that is all we have in our truck on the way to a hammer-in. We might not even know how to light the bloody torch. After all we don't even have a jack or lug wrench. Being such dummies we also forgot tips for the torch so we can't use it directly to weld up a lug wrench with the socket, pry bar and coat hangers. We are creative idiots though and jack up the truck with the 2x4's and cement blocks. We did this first because we made charcoal out of the 2x4's afterwards (we're going to just knock the truck off the blocks later). We wanted to make a fire box out of the rim of the flat tire but realized the catch 22 (can't get it off to use it to forge a wrench so we can get it off). Anyway, we dig a hole and make an earth forge with the charcoal we made. We use the oxygen for our blower. We think, hey maybe we'll get lucky and blow ourselves up and not have to go through this ludicrous exercise. But no such luck, we have to forge weld our pry bar and socket together with a couple of rocks sufficient to the task. We manage to get the job done and tire changed. We could have walked on our knees backwards to the hammer-in and back in the amount of time it took us to do all this. When they heard about this at the hammer-in they gave us immediate life-time honorary membership to the Dubious Society of Blacksmithing Buffoons. I think Hillybilliesmith may be its founder and foremost director.
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