Comments on: Video: The obligatory “farmer saws off his arm to save his life” clip

By: Captain Scarlet

Captain Scarlet — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:44:28 +0000

Understatement of the century at about the 1:14 mark:

He’s got his arm stuck in a corn picker that catches fire, he’s trying to put the flames out and cut off his own hand, but it’s when “the skin is just dripping off [his] arm like melted plastic” that then he’s says “now I know I’m in trouble”??

Geez.

By: Kini

Kini — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:18:55 +0000

91Veteran on November 25, 2007 at 9:21 PM

The first commentor stated the obvious.

I just asked the obvious.

By: El Guapo

El Guapo — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:40:45 +0000

I had a good friend get his hand sliced in half, long ways, from between his middle and ring finger down to his wrist, when he thought he could snatch a foreign object out of a grain auger while it was running. He admitted it was dumb and regretted it.

Farming is one dangerous (besides laborsom) business. Luckily he did not lose his hand, just feeling and some control in two fingers.

By: El Guapo

El Guapo — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:34:34 +0000

Which Republican candidate will secure mighty Sampson’s endorsement?
Or is he — a Democrat

Lets see: He took matters into his own hands (no pun intended), rescued himself, probably realizes he is not so smart for messing with dangerous equipment like that without shutting it off first (thus his fault), and then never tries to find a way to blame this on Bush or anything political (like farm subsidies).

He shows too many signs of self accountability and responsibility. That does not sound like a typical democrat, and especially not a far left liberal.

Glad he survied.

By: 91Veteran

91Veteran — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:21:31 +0000

I was reading about this on an Agricultural forum last night. One other guy related how this same thing had happened to a fellow farmer before. He cut his arm off, tied it up with a shoe lace, then drove the tractor and machinery back to his farm.

Is this person qualified to operate heavy machinery?

Let alone allowed to drive a car.

Kini on November 25, 2007 at 4:22 PM

Not sure of your question Kini. Are you suggesting he’s too dumb to do so?

Farming is one of the most dangerous jobs in the US. Quite often a farmer is in a hurry trying to beat the rain or some other issue, thinking of a million things, and all it takes is one second of not paying attention.

A classmate in High School had his arm caught in a baler. Luckily a friend was along and shut off the machinery before it pulled it off.

My brother lost his lower leg in another farm accident.

By: billy

billy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:29:24 +0000

Exactly why is this obligatory?

rmgraha on November 25, 2007 at 4:04 PM

So I take it that you are new to Hot Air and the works of the Allahpundit.

By: Dudley Smith

Dudley Smith — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:23:26 +0000

I was visiting relatives in Columbia this weekend and saw this on the local news. Not only did he cut his own arm off with a pocket knife, the arm doing the cutting was on fire the whole time. Amazing. The local news people were even warning viewers of how traumatic just watching the clip could be.

By: BadgerHawk

BadgerHawk — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:48:56 +0000

That guy’s attitude was great. Positive and Thankful.

By: boomer

boomer — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:18:28 +0000

We had a women killed here this fall by getting sucked into a combine. She was driving a truck and the two stories were she went into the field to pea and didn’t go far enough in and the combine came up faster than she realized. I also heard she went into pea and had and suffered a major myocardial infarction and was alread dead when the picker got her.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:54:21 +0000

Notice the editorializing: “Parker tried calling out for help. No one answered” read over a shot of the sun peeking through the clouds.

That’s God laughing at him. Or, there is no God.

By: ordi

ordi — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:51:25 +0000

My uncle had the same thing happen to him 30 + years ago in Southern Minnesota. He got his hand stuck in the combine and cut his own hand off to save his life. After a short period of adjustment he could do everything he had done before. I often wondered how he had the bravery to cut his own hand off and how much pain he had to endure.

Yes it was stupid to stick the arm in there when the combine was running however I am sure farmers do this all the time without getting their arm caught. It’s like the guy who drives the same path day in and day out and does not stop at that one stop sign – there is never a car coming then one day there is a car coming that he does not see and then gets hit.

By: GoodBoy

GoodBoy — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:48:57 +0000

a Democrat? No.. he mentioned God without spittle coming out of his mouth.. :)

By: amend2

amend2 — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:26:33 +0000

I’ve known a few Amishmen who weren’t so lucky. Often those machines just suck you right through.

By: Kini

Kini — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:22:02 +0000

Is this person qualified to operate heavy machinery?

Let alone allowed to drive a car.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:15:46 +0000

File under “The will to live”.

By: Afterimage

Afterimage — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:04:28 +0000

Having grown up in Iowa I’ve heard more than my fair share of these stories. :( Like Royce says, ALWAYS turn off machinery before trying to perform any type of work on it.

By: rmgraha

rmgraha — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:04:12 +0000

Exactly why is this obligatory?

By: Royce

Royce — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 20:33:31 +0000

They forgot to add that you always turn off any machine before working on it. This was a hard lesson that no one should have to learn.