Minneapplis (AP) - A Minnesota farmer chose his life over his arm.
When Jarrod Wagner reached to remove a clump of hay that plugged his hay baler Tuesday night, his arm got caught between two of the machine's pressure rollers.
"All I was thinking about was that my arm really hurt," Wagner said. "And the baler was kind of sucking my whole body in, so I figured, well, it was either my whole body or my arm."
Wagner, 34, used metal from the headphones he was wearing to saw off his left forearm below the elbow.
"I was scared, but after I cut my own arm off, I had all sorts of adrenaline," said Wagner, who was recovering Wednesday at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale.
Wagner then drove about 300 yards on his tractor to find his father and best friend at the barn on his 70 acre farm in Elko.
His father looked for his arm while his friend took him to Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville. From there, he was taken by helicopter to North Memorial.
"When I woke up, there was nothing, he said, referring to his forearm. His father had found his arm, but "it was all messed up. It wasn't salvageable."
When Jarrod Wagner reached to remove a clump of hay that plugged his hay baler Tuesday night, his arm got caught between two of the machine's pressure rollers.
"All I was thinking about was that my arm really hurt," Wagner said. "And the baler was kind of sucking my whole body in, so I figured, well, it was either my whole body or my arm."
Wagner, 34, used metal from the headphones he was wearing to saw off his left forearm below the elbow.
"I was scared, but after I cut my own arm off, I had all sorts of adrenaline," said Wagner, who was recovering Wednesday at North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale.
Wagner then drove about 300 yards on his tractor to find his father and best friend at the barn on his 70 acre farm in Elko.
His father looked for his arm while his friend took him to Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville. From there, he was taken by helicopter to North Memorial.
"When I woke up, there was nothing, he said, referring to his forearm. His father had found his arm, but "it was all messed up. It wasn't salvageable."