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Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife #6537823
05/15/19 10:22 AM
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Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife after it's caught in machinery

https://www.foxnews.com/health/nebr...fe-after-its-caught-in-farming-machinary

A Nebraska farmer made a life-saving decision last month when he used a three-inch pocket knife to sever his own left leg that got caught in farming machinery.

Kurt Kaser, 63, says he was unloading corn from one bin to another on April 19 when he accidentally stepped into a grain auger, trapping his left leg in between the rotating shaft.

The equipment began to pull Kaser’s leg in further, mangling it.

“I didn’t know what to do,” he told the Omaha World-Herald on Tuesday. “I was afraid it was going to suck me in more. I about gave up and let it do what it was going to do.”

The lifelong farmer told the paper that he couldn't find his cellphone and that it would be useless to yell for help on the 1,500-acre farm.

Kaser said his will to live kicked in when he saw the machine had already removed his foot. He observed an area just eight inches below his knee, took out his pocket knife and began to free himself.

"When I was cutting it, the nerve endings, I could feel, like, the ping every time I sawed around that pipe, and all at once it went and it let me go and I got the heck out of there," Kaser told Omaha's KETV-TV.

After he was freed, he crawled 150-200 feet to the nearest phone and was flown to a hospital. Kaser says he never lost consciousness.

He was released from a rehabilitation center over the weekend and will have to wait until his leg fully heals before he is fitted for a prosthetic.

Kaser told local media that he’s optimistic, because he’s lucky, that he’ll be able to walk again.

“Some (other patients) won’t ever get out of their wheelchairs. What they’ve got is what they are. I know I will be walking again fairly normally. Other people can’t, won’t ever.”

Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6537828
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The world needs more people like that.

Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6537829
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Bad deal but at least he is alive to tell, and is posative and wants to walk again.


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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6537832
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That must have hurt.


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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6537890
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And left a mark. Need more like him.


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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6538017
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Lucky didn't pass out in shock, my dad was killed when young in pto shaft , there was a guy where I used work, that shirt got caught in silo unloader, it strangled him, another guy from a factory where I work, found him an his neck was pinch shut like to a few inches. Awful sight

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It's takes a farmer to go thru and survive something like that

Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6541613
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OMG He must have had an Angel looking over him. I could not have done that. Take me away Angel!


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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6541642
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A biker/ farmer around here got his ponytail caught in some type of farm auger and pulled his head into it. I saw the wound after it was healed and it looked like a patchwork of skin grafts. Hes lucky to be alive.

Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6541656
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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6541756
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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6541768
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Adrenalin, a will to live and a good knife! He would have made a good soldier or LE maybe he was.

Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6541883
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I need to run out to the shop and sharpen my knife!
As far as pain goes, a doctor once asked me what my pain level was on a scale of 1 to 10. Ten is the highest. I have felt the pain level of ten. At the ten level, you go into a level of shock which shuts down the pain receptors in the brain. You may holler and scream, but you don't really feel it.
Therefore, as far as feeling extreme pain, level nine is worse. You get to enjoy all of that sensation.

Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6541893
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Be hard to cut the bone with a Barlow?

Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6541909
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Great uncle on my Dad's side did a hand like that with pliers. Was caught in a corn picker head.


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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6542694
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Farming is a dangerous occupation. I have a lot of admiration for all farmers.


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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6542759
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Local girl 13 was tangled last week in pto unloading silage,was a sad outcome.

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I’m not a farmer and I wonder why tractors don’t have a kill switch attached to the operator like a snowmobile or a remote wireless kill switch.


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Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6542775
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A farmer about 10 miles away died last fall after getting caught in a sweep auger in a bin. He got loose, but bled to death. Sad, left a young family. My grandpa lost his hand in a cornpicker back in the 50's. He held till it chewed his hand in two. He always said if he would have been wearing cotton gloves, he could have torn free. He was wearing leather gloves. They took off what was left at the wrist and he wore a hook for the rest of his life. Was very little he couldn't do.

Re: Nebraska farmer amputates leg with pocket knife [Re: Ray B] #6542789
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When I was a kid running a school-boy trap line it seems like most f the farmers I knew were missing a least a finger or two.


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