Colorado logger cuts off toes after foot is pinned

[Teh One Who Knocks]

9 News Colorado


MONTROSE, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado logger who cut off all of the toes on his right foot after he was pinned by a logging machine says he was afraid it would take hours to find him and he might die.

Jon Hutt says he used a 3-inch pocketknife to sever his toes from the machinery about a half hour after realizing no one heard his cries for help.

Hutt says Wednesday he was trying to retrieve a pile of fallen Aspen trees to cut up for winter firewood near Montrose when a logging trailer slipped and pinned his foot.

He says it happened Aug. 19 but he didn't file a police report.

The 61-year-old logger drove to a parking lot, where an ambulance arrived to take him to Montrose Memorial Hospital.

[PorkChopSandwiches]

wtf happened to his ax? A 3 inch knife, holy shit

[Loser]

I'm sure there's a bear grylls parody here, but I'm just too lazy.

My question is, how did he get passed the bones? :shock:

[Hal-9000]

a simple cell phone may have saved some toes.....:rolleyes:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Who logs alone? Doesn't it usually take a team?

[Teh One Who Knocks]

a simple cell phone may have saved some toes.....:rolleyes:

It says he was "near" Montrose....that town is out in the boonies and depending how far outside of town he was, there probably was no cell signal out there

http://i.imgur.com/p27BY.png

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Who logs alone? Doesn't it usually take a team?

http://i.imgur.com/Jh47u.jpg

[Hal-9000]

Olathe has a huge cell phone tower!...the booming metropolis that it is :lol:

[redred]

about a half hour after realizing no one heard his cries for help.

Danny Boyle won't be making a film about this then :lol:

[Hal-9000]

chops off toes, help pulls up 2 minutes later



:facepalm: he shouldn't have watched that %$$#@! movie

[Acid Trip]

I'm sure there's a bear grylls parody here, but I'm just too lazy.

My question is, how did he get passed the bones? :shock:

Your feet are full of tiny bones with spaces between them. If you cut near the joints you'd never encounter bone because you'd go between them.

[FBD]

:-k wtf? he cuts off his toes? he was trapped by the fuggin TOES?? :-s

[Loser]

:-k wtf? he cuts off his toes? he was trapped by the fuggin TOES?? :-s


SERIOUSLY :lol:

How can you be trapped by your toes?

I mean, I've been trapped by many of "those" toes, but never the ones on my feet...:huh:

[deebakes]

:rip:

[Hal-9000]

Toe-tally!

[Griffin]

Danny Boyle won't be making a film about this then :lol:


maybe it will be digit-ized.

[Hal-9000]

maybe it will be digit-ized.


5.8 from the Canadian judge :thumbsup:

[Pony]

Umm....




....nevermind.








OK, If you're trapped by only the toes in the woods couldn't you just either use the damn knife to dig around your foot? Or at least just pull really hard and hope for the best? Personally chopping off digits would be a last resort after days of being trapped and after every other option has been exhausted.

I guess they just raise 'em dumber in the Colorado mountains. :nana:

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Good thing I grew up in New England then ;)

[FBD]

you've got to be crazy or a fool not to be wearing steel toed boots doing that stuff in the first place!

[Muddy]

I wonder if the guy had been drinking...