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[Jangler]

http://www.dailyregister.com/newsnow/x1638737294/Colorado-logger-cuts-off-toes-after-foot-is-pinned-under-trailer

Jon Hutt was doing logging work all alone in a remote Colorado forest when his six-ton trailer fell onto his right foot.

The pain was excruciating, no one was around to hear his cries for help and he couldn't free himself from the big piece of equipment. So he pulled out his 3-inch pocket knife and cut off his toes to get free.

"It hurt so bad," the 61-year-old Hutt said, "I would cut for a while and then I had to rest."

Hutt then climbed into his semi tractor-trailer, his foot wrapped in a shirt, and began driving for help. Hutt's ordeal was first reported in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel.

Hutt, who runs a crane business and does logging "for fun," had gone into the woods by himself on Aug. 19 to retrieve a pile of fallen aspen trees to cut for winter firewood. A trailer that was attached to his truck slipped and landed on his foot.

The wiry, 180-pound man told The Associated Press that he began cutting off his toes about 30 minutes later when he realized no one could hear his cries. Hutt said he couldn't reach his cell phone, which was in his truck and out of range anyway.

Hutt told his wife he would be back in several hours from a job 50 miles away, but he did not know when she might start searching for him.

"I cut off my boot to see my foot, and once I realized how bad it was, I started cutting off my toes," Hutt said.

Once he freed himself, Hutt stopped the bleeding with the shirt and drove toward his home outside Montrose, about 175 miles southwest of Denver. He called for help once he was in cell phone range. An ambulance met him on the way.

Hutt said authorities retrieved his severed toes and took them to the hospital, but doctors said the toes couldn't be re-attached because they were too badly mangled.

"They told me there was no hope for them. They said there was nothing to attach the toes to," he said.

Man, could you do it? I'd like to think I could but I don't know.

[MadHatter]

If I truly thought I was going to die, then Yes I think I could do it.

[pantherfan49]

A dude cut his entire leg off several years ago in a similar story.

[j2sgam]

If I truly thought I was going to die, then Yes I think I could do it.

^^This...

[Darth Biscuit]

I would never want to find out if I could do it.

[Bronn]

I thought the Hutts, being space gangsters and all, would be a little tougher...

Wait a second... Gastropods don't even have toes... story is bunk!

[Hotsauce]

I knew a guy in college who gnawed his arm off after sleeping with a fatty...

[pantherfan49]

I knew a guy in college who gnawed his arm off after sleeping with a fatty...

In other words, HotSauce is an amputee.

:)

[Mvp2014]

HOLY SH**!! That is some serious poo right there.

[Mvp2014]

That ol' bastard must have been drinking moonshine all damn day. Probably wasnt much to cut off after 12,000 lbs fell on it.

[Epistaxis]

ya gotta do watcha gotta do

[SOJA]

would be very tough