Eugene man recovering after barbed wire lodges in his heart
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September 9, 2018
EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — It turned out to be an unusual Sunday morning on Wayne Wiser's filbert farm.
On July 15, Wiser was using a tractor to mow his 15-acre orchard in north Eugene when something caught his eye. He got off the tractor, with the rear-mounted mower still running, to take a closer look.
"I saw a piece of metal, which happened to be barbed wire, and I bent over to pick it up," Wiser, 62, said. "Next thing I know, it exploded in my hand."
Wiser believes that the wire had been close to the so-called flail mower, which uses T- or Y-shaped pieces of metal attached to a rotating drum to c...
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