Re: Losing your manhood--farm augers.
There have been some horrible accidents involving farm augers (a long rotating, spiraling blade used to lift grain up into storage bins). One involving my grandfather was more humorous and vaguely similar to your story, in the sense that it involved man vs. furiously rotating, powerful machine. Anyway, he got his overalls caught in the auger, but was strong enough to hang on to part of the tractor so as not to be ingested by the device, which was being driven by at least 45 hp. As it ripped off successive layers off his clothing, he screamed for his hired man to "Shut It Off, Shut it Off!". But the guy was hard of hearing and not the brightest bulb in the pack either. He looked back at my grandfather slackjawed, and repeated "Ehhhh?, Ehhhh?" With most or his clothing ripped off, my grandfather was finally freed to live another day.