What Was I Thinking?

It just needed a big hammer.
We have to replace the brakes on Joel's truck, a job I have never done before. Joel bought the apropriate book so we have the needed manual, then we bought the needed tool for getting the drum removed. We could not get the first one off so Rick came over an pulled the first one off. The NHL playoffs are on so our time has been limited, but the truck is safely parked on jack stands in front of the garage door. So after two weeks we have one drum off, slow progress, but it is progress. We decided to tackle the other drum last night as soon as we got home from work. There is this little hole on the inside of the wheel and inside that little hole is where this little bent tool is placed and there is a small wheel that you turn with the tool this releases the shoes from the drum, and don't forget that you must push this little arm back so that the little wheel is able to spin and there is no room to work or to see what you are doing. Everything in the area that needs to be worked on is either steel or close to concrete. (skin is neat stuff, it just about always grows back) After a lenghty time of taking turns to spin this little wheel we seemed to be getting no where, the drum would not come off. Just as the frustration level was about to reach the limit, I saw the big hammer just laying there, I honestly didn't think it would help the drum but I thought it might make me feel better, so I hit it with the hammer and it came free. So of course now I'm on the look out for what other problems can be solved with one blow from the hammer.