I had the spare sieze in place on my Ford F100...
And on a previous occasion, I had a roadside flat, under conditions where I couldn't get to the spare (because the tire was flat)... and I"m not much of one to crawl under a truck that's sitting on a lousy factory jack.
So, when it siezed in place, I put a cutoff tool in there, and eliminated the hanger... carried it in the bed thereafter.