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    This Chinese guy lost his hands in an accident...Check out his story. There is no limit to what a determined man or woman can do.

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    After the accident, Sun Jifa, 51, of Guanmashan, Jilin province, in northern China, desperately needed to work on his family farm, according to the Daily Mail. “I survived, but I had no hands,” he explained.

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    “I couldn’t afford to buy the false hand the hospital wanted me to have, so I decided to make my own,” Jifa says. He spent eight years handcrafting prototypes before finally creating metal hands that could grip and hold.

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    The devices depend on a series of wires and pulleys inside, and are controlled by movements in his elbows, he said. “I made this from scrap metal for virtually nothing,” Jifa

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    “There is no need to pay hospitals a fortune.” He says he will further develop the design for other disabled people.

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    “The only drawback is that steel is quite heavy,” he concedes. “So they’re tiring to wear and get hot or cold in the extremes of summer and winter.”
     
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    Absolutely amazing.

    I spent 2-1/2 years in the Philippines when I was a wingnut in the AF. The Philipino's are some of the most innovative and determined people I have had the pleasure of meeting.

    Obviously this Chinese man is right there with them and does not have the word can't in his vocabulary!
     
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