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SAVE HIS LIFE. >> UNLOADING, INTO A BIN, MOVING IT FROM FOR HIM. TAKING WERE ONE FLIES THE OTHER. REPORTER: 3-YEAR-OLD HAS BEEN A GRAIN FARMER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS BUT IT WAS ONE SIMPLE MISTAKE THAT COULD HAVE COST HIS LIFE. >> IF I COULD HAVE GOT BY THE FIRST LOAD I WOULD HAVE SEEN IT. BUT I WAS IN THAT LIKE I WAS USED TO DOING. AND I JUST, I DIDN'T THINK OF IT? >> HE SAYS HE STEPPED OUT OF THE TRUCK, TURN AROUND THE CORNER. >> STEPPED IN THE HOPPER HOLE. IT SUCKED MY LEG IN. I WAS TRYING TO PULL IT OUT. I KEPT PULLING. REPORTER: WAS NO ONE AROUND TO HELP. IT FIRST HAPPENED I COULD TELL MYSELF. THIS IS NOT GOOD GOOD. THIS IS NOT GOOD AT ALL. REPORTER: HE COULDN'T CALL ANYONE. >> I THOUGHT, HOW LONG DO I STAY CONSCIOUS HERE? YOU KNOW? I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. THEN I FELT IT JERK ME AGAIN. OH, I WAS GOING IN. GOING TO GRAB PE AND PULL ME IN FURTHER. REPORTER: HE WAS LEFT ONE ONE OPTION. I HAD MY POCKET KNIFE THE ONLY WAY TO GET OUT OF HERE IS KIT OF. I STARTED SAUG ON. I EAMPUTATED THE OWN LEG. WHEN WAS CUTTING THE NERVE ENDINGS KI FEEL THEM EVERY TIME I WOULD START SAWING IT. ALL AT ONCE IT WENT. IT LET ME GO. I GOT THE HECK OUT OF THERE. HE ARMY UL CRAWLED 150 FEET ACROSS THE FORME THE NEWEST PONE TO CALL FOR HELP. EYE STAYED CONSCIOUS ALL THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL. I REMEMBER BEING UNLOADED UP HERE ON LIFE PLIGHT. >> REALLY CHALLENGING HIS PALANCE. REPORTER: HOW TO HEALING UP GOING THROUGH THERAPY IN LINCOLN. HE TOLD ME HIS GOAL WAS I NEED GET HOME AND GET BACK TO WHAT I WAS DOING BEFORE. HIS MAIN GOAL IS FARMING. >> THE FRONT WHEELS DON'T TOURNAMENT THIS THE BACK WHEELS DO. REPORTER: THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST SAYS THE ATTITUDE HAS BEEN POSITIVE. >> PRETTY NONCHALANT ABOUT EVERYTHING THATP PEN LIKE IT MOOSE BIG KAEL. >> IT IS WHAT IT IS. I MAKE THE BEST OF IT. THAT IS ALL YOU CAN DO. IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE. REPORTER: HE WAS LEASED THE REHAB CENTER ON FRIDAY. HE WILL CONTINUE HEALING UNTIL HE CAN GET A PROSTHETIC LEG BUT WANTS OTHERS TO LEARN FROM HIS MAKE HIS TAKE. >> I PAID THE PRICE OF BEING IN A HURRY AND NOT PAYING ATTEN

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When it comes to life-or-death situations, it's tough to say what anyone would do to save their own life. But what about cutting off a limb? That's what a local farmer did after getting stuck in farming equipment. "I was unloading corn into a bin, well, moving corn and taking it from one place to the other," Kurt Kaser said. The 63-year-old farmer from Pender, NE has been a grain farmer for more than 40 years. But it was one simple mistake that could have cost his life. "If I could have got by that first load, unloading, I think I would have thought of it or seen it, but I was in that routine like I used to do and I didn't think of it," he said. He said it was like any other normal day. Kaser pulled in, got out of the truck and turned the corner. "Stepped into the hopper in the little hole. It just sucked my leg in and I was trying to pull it out, but it kept pulling," he said. There was no one around to help and he knew no one would be there for a long time. "When it first happened, I remember thinking, 'This ain't good. This is not good at all,'" Kaser said. He couldn't find his cellphone to call anyone and his was becoming more and more desperate by the minute. "I thought, 'How long am I going to stay conscious here?' I did know what to expect. I felt it jerk me again and I thought it would grab me and pull me in further," Kaser said.He was left with only one option. "I had my pocket knife in my pocket. I said, 'The only way I'm getting out of here is to cut it off,' so I just started sawing at it."He amputated his own leg. "When I was cutting it, the nerve endings, I could feel, like, the ping every time I sawed around that pipe, and all at once it went and it let me go and I got the heck out of there," Kaser said. Then, he crawled 150 feet across the farm to the nearest phone to call for help. "I stayed conscious all the way to the hospital. I remember being unloaded up here on Lifeflight," he said. He transferred to Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital-Lincoln Campus. There, he healed and went through physical and occupational therapy. "He told me his goal, basically, 'I need to get home and get back to what I was doing before,' which was farming," occupational therapist Dani Willey said. Despite what happened, Willey said Kaser has had an extremely positive attitude. "Pretty nonchalant about everything that happened, like it was no big deal," Willey said. "It is what it is, make the best of it is all you can do. It could have always been worse," Kaser said. On Friday, he was released from Madonna. He will have to wait for the amputated leg to completely heal before getting fitted for a prosthetic leg. Kaser said he has no doubt he will back farming in no time, but he wants others to learn from his mistake. "I paid the price of being in a hurry and not paying attention, basically," Kaser said.