Man run over by combine harvester, lives

A man taking a nap in a Billings, MT, cornfield was run over by a combine harvester without serious injury, reports Carmen Irish of the Billings Gazette.

At about 1:15 p.m., the landowner drove a combine into the field to harvest corn. The farmer drove about 50 yards when the combine shuddered, [Sheriff's Lt. Kent] O’Donnell said. “The farmer thought he had driven over a fence post or an irrigation pipe, but once he turned the machine off, he could hear a man screaming,” he said. The machine had caught the man’s clothing and sucked him into the cutter.

• [rezmuff]

  “The man was taken to St. Vincent Healthcare with non-life-threatening injuries. O’Donnell said he had deep lacerations that may require skin grafting as well as stitches.”

• [Funk Daddy]

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKXjG7V7FHQ

  Some nonlife-threatening lacerations places him between lucky and blessed

• [Boundegar]

  This would rank pretty high on the list of things not to do.

• [voiceinthedistance]

  Not being awakened by an approaching combine surpasses my definition of a deep sleep. I’d say that might be more accurately described as an alcohol induced cornfield coma.  The man, as well as the public, is quite lucky he didn’t wind up in a can of corn niblets.

  • [Boundegar]

    I dunno, Corn-Man Niblets sounds kind of tasty.

• [LinkMan]

  I wish I could find a good link to some combine warning stickers.  The decals on those things are true works of stick man mutilation art, but I can’t find pictures of them anywhere.  Anybody?

  • [LinkMan]

    Most of the ones in this series are from construction equipment and not combines, but I think I once saw this one on a combine’s wheat harvester attachment:

    https://secure.flickr.com/photos/numlok/131508696/in/photostream/

• [Hamish Grant]

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6mCUoRYN3Y  

  I love this song…

• [traalfaz]

  Misleading headline – “run over by” is vastly different than “pulled into” combine.  Getting run over by a combine would suck but living through it probably not unusual especially if the ground is soft – the tires tend to be very large.  Getting pulled in is a way different affair – he’s lucky not to have lost limbs or bled to death – that’s the usual fate of people who argue with augers.

• [arsphenamine]

  Sounds like a harrowing experience.

  (cough!)

  • [dioptase]

     Another unfortunate reap victim.

    • [voiceinthedistance]

      Some guys, they reap so easy.

• [Richard_Kirk]

  FIRST VOICE
  There is no known likeness of his father Esau,
  who, undogcollared because of his little weakness, was
  scythed to the bone one harvest by mistake when sleeping
  with his weakness in the corn. He lost all ambition and
  died, with one leg.

  REV. ELI JENKINS
  Poor Dad,

  SECOND VOICE
  grieves the Reverend Eli,

  REV. ELI JENKINS
  to die of drink and agriculture.

• [Chuck]

  He must have thought that the Grim Reaper had upgraded from his regular scythe.

• [Sparg]

  What was the fool doing in the cornfield?  Great, now I’ve got Traffic’s “John Barleycorn Must Die” in my head.