REDWOOD FALLS (AP) — A man has been rescued after he was pinned under a tree for more than four days while working on his land in southern Minnesota, officials said.

Jonathan Ceplecha, 59, was cutting down oak trees Aug. 27 near Redwood Falls when one of them fell and landed on his legs, according to the Redwood County Sheriff’s Office. He was found Monday in a ravine about 100 yards from his house with both of his legs pinned.

“I was with him Monday in the hospital and he was kind of getting how he was able to keep from panicking, which was by breaking up the days into hours and then breaking up the hours into 5-minute segments so that he could have little victories throughout the day that would give him little pieces of hope,” said his son, Miles Ceplecha. “He just tried to keep his mind distracted.”