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Kershaw County farmer Sampson Parker said "If I was going to die here, I was going to put up a fight, and that's basically what I did."For Parker, it could've all ended on his Kershaw County farm.He noticed a corn-stalk stuck in an old rusty picker."I went up with my hand and the roller that takes the shucks off the corn had grabbed the glove and pulled my hand into the rollers. The more I tried pulling my hand out, the farther up my hand went," said Parker.On his knees, his hand stuck in the picker, Parker tried yelling out for help. No one answered. An hour passed. Parker's hand went numb and he couldn't wait any longer. With a rod, he was able to jam the machine.Parker said he took out his John Deere pocket knife and started cutting away at his fingers. But before he cut himself free, rod and machine started to spark.Parker said "It was almost like a gasoline fire - all of a sudden it went 'woosh'."His right hand still stuck in the machine, Parker used his left to fight the spreading grass fire around him. "My skin was melting. It was dripping off my arm like plastic, plastic melting. I realized I was in trouble," explained Parker.And he was desperate. So Parker reached back in his pocket and grabbed his knife."And I just jammed it into my arm, just like that, just started cutting away from the bone - just dropped," said Parker.His right arm now cut off, his body badly burned, Parker drove to the road in front of his home.Doug Spinks, a firefighter from the town of Kershaw, passed by."My biggest fear was this guy is going to die on me right here and there's nothing else I can do, other than what I've done," said Spinks.What Spinks did was pull over, wrap Parker's arm and call for help.On his farm, the idle corn-picker still sits. But Parker is moving on, and he said he isn't upset with anyone or anything."Came down here, had a prayer with God and the corn picker and me. Made it easier, made peace with it," Parker said. "I'm just thankful to be alive - to do an interview with you."
Ananova: Farmer cut off his own armA US farmer whose hand became stuck in a combine harvester had to cut off his arm after the machine burst into flames.Samson Parker, of South Carolina, was trying to clear a trapped corn stalk when his glove got caught inches from its rotating steel rollers.He managed to jam the machine with a metal rod and began to cut his fingers loose with a penknife.But when a spark from the harvester ignited a fire, he had to take the blade to his arm, reports the Daily Telegraph."I just told myself, I'm not going to die here," Mr Parker said. "I just kept fighting, kept praying. And then when I did get loose, I jumped up running, I had blood squirting from my arm. It was pretty scary there for a while."The part-time farmer said when his fingers first became stuck he called for help to no avail. After an hour and a half his hand was completely numb.Sparks set the stubble field ablaze and flames swiftly engulfed the harvester. "My skin was melting," he said. "Like melting plastic."Describing the pain, Mr Parker told NBC: "I could feel the nerves as I was cutting my arm off."When he got down to the bone, he dropped to the ground, using his bodyweight to break the bone and free himself. At that moment a tyre on the harvester exploded, sending him flying.The father-of-three stumbled to a road where he flagged down a passerby, Doug Spinks, a firemen with paramedic training, who wrapped up his arm and called for help.
I hope he doesn't catch his dick in his zip next!
Also, I lost it when I came across that comment on the youtube video.
I actually had to stop reading it when he started talking about his skin melting off.
