Suppose you might MacGyver your method out of a harmful scenario? Clear up this emergency situation in a inventive method and your answer could possibly be featured within the subsequent situation of Make: journal! Submit your reply down under by June 30.
Written by MacGyver TV creator Lee David Zlotoff and his associate in predicaments, Rhett Allain, right here’s the brand new problem: Loss of life Valley Blowout! Share your greatest options for an opportunity to be within the journal and win some Make: goodies.
Lee Z wrote the favored MakeShift problem in Make: journal from 2005 to 2011. Now we’re bringing Mac again that will help you suppose — and make — your method out of pure disasters, energy failures, and different emergencies. There appear to be numerous them lately. As Lee wrote in Make: Quantity 82, “We’re all MacGyvers now.”
Loss of life Valley Blowout!
The State of affairs
You borrowed a good friend’s 2000 Ford Ranger pickup truck that will help you transfer, and also you’re in your solution to return it, which requires a drive by way of one of the crucial barren and inhospitable — to not point out hottest — locations on the planet: Loss of life Valley, California. It’s August and at 9 am within the morning the temperature’s already over 90 levels, when the truck’s proper rear tire blows and, by the point you pull over, is a shredded mess. Fortunate for you, there’s a spare and a lug nut wrench. However you shortly uncover there’s no jack! You’ve obtained no cell sign out right here, so calling for assistance is out. And it could possibly be hours — or days — earlier than one other automobile comes by. There’s nothing in any respect within the surrounding panorama that you need to use to raise the truck excessive sufficient to get the spare on.
The Problem
In a couple of hours the thermometer goes to hit 120 levels or extra. So, utilizing no matter you’ve gotten within the truck, how are you going to switch the tire earlier than the truck is simply too sizzling to the touch and also you develop into one other unhappy statistic that helped give this place its identify?
What You’ve Bought
And it’s all you’ve obtained:
- 2×2-foot sheet of previous plywood
- 6-foot mild responsibility chain
- Street flares
- Deflated yoga ball. Yoga mat, bungee train cords
- Soccer bag with sneakers, shin guards, additional garments, folding ball rebounder, 1 soccer ball, ball pump, operating drag chute
- The terrain has mild brush and principally simply grime. There are some rocks round, however the largest one is the scale of a basketball.
- Backyard hose (however no additional water)
Share your greatest options under for an opportunity to be within the journal.
