In America a few guys come to mind. Norm Abrams, Bob Ross...Fred was a treasure not just to the folks in the UK but to the world who knew him. Absolutely wonderful fellow. Glad UA-cam showed me this guy. He brightens my day.
You can't really say that, Fred is a 1 in every billion, but every country and even locally every area/place has great men worth remembering. Literally everywhere has its hero's and talented individuals.
Bob Ross and our Fred are as chalk and cheese, yet both somehow have great affection in the popular cultures even across the pond; that's surely a special quality.
its weird all the shit we humans put into the air we breathe without a thought. why are tires even helpful here though? why not a pile of coal or wood?
yeah, Fred is a Legend, but nowadays with UA-cam and Others sources its Something different to keep someone in mind than in previous Times when Only privat Photos and memories have been the Things to remind on Legends...
Fred was a craftsman who respected the craft of the men who had gone before. He demolished their work with respectful regret at needing to do so. No quick fix with soulless dynamite, he took his time and worked in ways that those former craftsmen would understand. I hope his legacy continues
Yes 100% agree when he explained about the pully mechanism he tweaked from what he learnt from his elders, that’s some, STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS stuff!
We where lucky to have Fred look at our local chimney at India Mill's Darwen Lancashire!! He loved this chimney. I personally watched Fred climb India Mill Chimney many moons ago!! Miss this guy so much. R.I.P. Fred Dibnah God bless you.
Terrible analogy. A person condemned to execution was a criminal i.e. someone who didn't just NOT contribute to society, but actually took from it. Sure, at the time such structures could be considered 'dark satanic mills', but without them, and the cost paid by the British people to persevere through such times, the vast majority of the world's population would still be living as medieval serfs. That, and the quality of the enginering required to enable all that to happen, is why Fred treated them with respect. Get a clue.
@@sunnyjim1355 Heh…you must be fun at parties. That being said, plenty of decent innocent people have been unjustly condemned and executed throughout history. A serial killer can condemn people. So can a dictator. The authorities are not always righteous or good intentioned. Simply being condemned doesn’t automatically mean that a person is of bad character and has contributed nothing of value to society. It just means someone or some institution has sentenced them to punishment or death. OPs analogy is sound.
The level of pollution created from burning those tires is so moronic I lost all respect for him. Imagine how many sicknesses this man has contributed towards just for his prideful sense of "tradition". Men like him are idiots.
He sits in the same bracket as David Attenborough, he makes things that I wouldn’t normally find that interesting truly riveting with his genuine passion for his craft
5 Woodbines and 3 pints of bitter, then take on the world. Fred Dibnah, an amazing man - unrecognised genius. I am always inspired by his outlook to life.
@@sarahjones-jf4pr Stay off the gin, luv.. shouting is making you look hysterical on line. Work on your English comprehension a bit when you're straight, eh ?
Having a tire fire, climbing those heights without a harness, taking water from a fire hydrant. I couldn’t imagine Fred would get along too well with this generation.
@Stewart J I love watching these videos too. You would think that the, ‘powers that be’ only make rules or laws to make life more difficult. Not true. They are all based on legal precident which is derived by victims. Not saying he was a malicious person but he definitely didn’t understand why those rules were or remain there. Not going to write it all out, again. My reasons are in other comments of this video though if you really want to know why. It was a different world afterall. Scientific progress isn’t bogus and full of merit for economical, health and social reasons.
I wonder if part of the appeal of these programmes at the time might have been that Fred took some risks even by the standards of 1970s health and safety culture. That its not just generational, that Fred did really follow the rules of the time. My dad worked on building sites in 1960s/1970s and even he sometimes thinks bloody hell when we watch these together today.
@@pleasureincontempt3645 gypsies are still having tire fires to this day, but you guys in the settled community turn on us and report us straight away to this day . So piss off with your double standard.
He was an amazing man. I like the way the poor chimney got to do it's 'job" one last time before its demise. Wish I had just some of his mechanical skill and knowledge. RIP Fred, gone, but never forgotten.
It's Dec 12th 2022, we still watch and listen too our friend fred.who was a national treasure.The day Fred died.Ths day we all cryed.The following day.we remember our old friend Fred dibnah .we our heading into another year without fred.we still remember you and we will never forget Fred dibnah Ur a legend rip
Just did mot check on the light blue land rover thp36r and its still running 🙂 , nice to know someone is looking after it. Always loved watching Fred. R.I.P .
Some classic Fred Dibnah footage . Fred was meticulous with his work and highly skilled. You won’t see anything like this now. He was one of a kind. RIP
He reminds me of my grandad. Such a lovely character, always optimistic, hard working, strong as an ox and as kind as a saint. Always down the pub for a game of snooker, packet of mini cheddars and a pint ! My grandad was a miner, I remember back in the 90s watching him as a child pulling coal out of his hands when he was in his 80s! Hard working men, something I am proud to have been brought up around. take pride in what they do with a smile. Wouldn't surprise me if he knew my grandad. he was also an engineer and did lots of work all over UK.
@@Snacks8536 I think they used to say that newspapers made people into zombies in the 1800's. the point is to not be powerless to distraction, whether it is mobile phones or newspapers fixing our minds. even in Buddha's day (600BC), he was wailing about distraction, while today, industries are built on the premise to distract. this is a skill that needs training, whether there is social media or only paper words. Also, if you need to clarify your first comment because someone pointed out a blind spot in it, and then you call their comment dumb, then what is yours? Also, your filter needs fixing if you reply to crap that should be filtered.
I used to love going to work with my Father , learning from him was priceless, enjoyed every moment, especially knowing that I pleased him and he was proud which he never said but I could tell.
One of my regrets was not going to meet Fred at the Black Country museum while he was still with us. Grew up watching his tv programs and really regret not going. Proper Grafter👍🏻
I love these videos of Fred. Makes me sad to think what we are losing though. Men like Fred are on the endangered list unfortunately. A lot of knowledge is gonna die with men like Fred. Thanks for uploading this. I really enjoyed it.
Fred was a one off. He represented a bygone age dating back to the industrial revolution. Not so long ago, I remember watching a video about Fred's tools, steeplejack equipment, steam engine parts etc... being sold off or thrown away. Very sad. RIP Fred.
Fred wasn’t even typical of his own generation. Most of these types of men had died off before his lifetime. The west has been soft for at least 3-4 generations now.
Fred Dibnah was an amazing man, there is not many like him in this world today, wish I could have met Fred. Wish he was still with us today. R.I.P Mr Dibnah u will never be forgotten mate. 🙏🇺🇲🗽🏴🏴
Stuff like this should be on TV as educational because it really is that good His occupation is now a lost trade and lost knowledge Fred uses old telegraph poles someone in a street near his jobs every time is like why can't I use the landline The water hydrant system I think it's great he's doing what he's doing
@Daz Hughes I understand that after he had nocked a mill chimney down someone told the powers to be and Fred got told off for useing old rubber tires to create so much black smoke.
Such an awsome Guy! And the Steam Fair really knocked me off my seat, so many great engines! I very much hope they are somewhere still around as many of the owners may be gone already. Hopefully their relatives saved the engines to honor the work their fathers put into. I came here thru the vid of Fred´s last chimney, happily seeing him pull up in his trusty Land Rover. So sad knowing that with those people dissapearing their way of doing things also die out. I love the way of the Steeplejacks letting a once proud monument of craftmanship having one last draw of smoke before it´s over. One great example of a guy from times past. I took my tape recorder to record the steam fair music- Keep them wheels turning up there, Fred- I´d be happy to meet when my times come.
What a Great Man........ brave, humble, witty, creative, knowledgeable and a master of the industrial revolution steam powered engines. RIP Fred. There nowt be another like Fred.
I have a full time job, live on my own and pay taxes, and this was still 8 years before I was born haha. That said, even for me 1990 feels like 10 years ago. Really fucking weird eh
@@signomei --- You sound like a complete man-child yourself. You've been watching too much GBNews or Fox News and reading too much Daily Mail. How are you being punished for being a man? What manly things can't you do now? Beat your wife? Ignore your children? Do you think women are second class citizens? You bandy about all of these right wing misogynistic tropes but you give no examples of how you're being oppressed? So come on, how are you personally being punished by society today? And why do you need a good role model to be a good, well rounded person? Stop moping about and make something of your life and stop complaining that the world is against you.
Miss Mr Fred dibnah , spent hours watching his videos , very interesting man not to mention the size of his cahonies, how he climbed them chimneys without them falling over with size of his bollox is beyond me. Guys a legend.
Yes!! It blew me away. I’ve used a hammer and cold chisel on and off for decades, but those blows … he intuitively knew where he head if the chisel was always. And knew the exact arc of the blow. It was perfection !!
Thank God for Mr Fred Dibnah and this new media to show this MAN and his great life I love this man and wish I could have met him and helped him with some of his work and projects.I am in America and had an old uncle and grandfather like him but to young to really understand what they were doing RIP FRED DIBNAH I love you the man I never met
Fred was a legend! I remember seeing this back in the day an was just as amazed as now. I have panic attacks over cutting a doorway in a wall, that man had nerves of Iron!
I binge watched Fred's videos a couple of years ago and just recently the youtube algorithm just informed i must do it again...so here iam :) what a wonderful bloke sadly Fred's generation have all but left us now and we have the Millennials taking over. Glad i will be WELL in the ground by the time these next generation nutballs will be world leaders.
I was born in 1990 and watched a lot of Fred's programmes with my Dad as a boy. Now it's hard to comprehend someone using these great old school techniques even in my lifetime.
love this, love fred and everthing he did but, im sure this was later than 1991 though, only because the bit at the dorset steam fair, they showed "The Voyager" painted with its stripes. it didnt gain the stripes untill 1993. in 1991 it was plain yellow as can be seen in somevideos on my channel from 1991.
Wey aye, you don't get many men like Fred nowadays especially here in Catalonia.i saw a bit of my late father in Fred and the love of steam tractor engines. I enjoyed this video so much that I just bought one that I found on E Bay but will take around 6 months to get here by ship from Devon in England to Catelonia.
I remember Jack! He used to work at the Isle of Man steam railway with my dad and I remember one time when He was inside a steam engine boiler cleaning it with a shower cap on 😂 thought it was hilarious at that time I was only like 6/7 years old. Jack was a character tho 😊
I'll always remember my dad pointing out that that's the last time the chimney will smoke..he named his band The Pamonas after a Reddish pub too.. RIP dad and old Fred.
Random man: Those kids come over from yard to mess ere at these poles...knock them they could!! Fred: Ya ya ya Random man: And then I come over you see Fred: Ya ya ya Random man: And I says to them, why are you pulling that down? Fred: ya ya ya Haha love Fred.
"Right, " said Fred, "Both of us together One each end and steady as we go." Tried to shift it, couldn't even lift it We was getting nowhere And so we had a cuppa tea and "Right, " said Fred, "Give a shout for Charlie." Up comes Charlie from the floor below After strainin', heavin' and complainin' We was getting nowhere And so we had a cuppa tea And Charlie had a think, and he thought we ought to take off all the handles And the things wot held the candles But it did no good, well I never thought it would "All right, " said Fred, "Have to take the feet off To get them feet off wouldn't take a mo" Took its feet off, even took the seat off Should have got us somewhere but no! So Fred said, "Let's have another cuppa tea" And we said, "right-o." "Alright, " said…
In America a few guys come to mind. Norm Abrams, Bob Ross...Fred was a treasure not just to the folks in the UK but to the world who knew him. Absolutely wonderful fellow. Glad UA-cam showed me this guy. He brightens my day.
No American matches the standards of Sir Fred dibnah. This man stands in a league of his own
Bob Ross? That guy was a big puss
You can't really say that, Fred is a 1 in every billion, but every country and even locally every area/place has great men worth remembering.
Literally everywhere has its hero's and talented individuals.
Bob Ross and our Fred are as chalk and cheese, yet both somehow have great affection in the popular cultures even across the pond; that's surely a special quality.
I wholly agree. Norm Abrhams is on a par..
A true crafstman.
The talent and strength to be able to not only climb the chimney at his age but to manhandle ladders etc. Just amazing. Total respect to Fred. 👍
Ah the early 90s. Back when a man could have a tyre fire and no one complained.
🤣 I did it twice.. 1989.. 1992😂🤣 today people would kill me
in earlier documentaries fred said he was getting pressure from environmental groups😂 that’s fred dibnah your talking to
its weird all the shit we humans put into the air we breathe without a thought. why are tires even helpful here though? why not a pile of coal or wood?
@@JackMott those old tires were probably free.
@@JackMott ever lite up some tyres.....🤷🏼♂️🤣👍🏻
We still watch and talk about him all these years on and that says it all 👌r.I.p Fred ✌🏻
yeah, Fred is a Legend,
but nowadays with UA-cam and Others sources its Something different to keep someone in mind than in previous Times when Only privat Photos and memories have been the Things to remind on Legends...
Fred was a craftsman who respected the craft of the men who had gone before. He demolished their work with respectful regret at needing to do so. No quick fix with soulless dynamite, he took his time and worked in ways that those former craftsmen would understand.
I hope his legacy continues
Yep killing the planet in the soul sucking methods
Well said 👏
Yes 100% agree when he explained about the pully mechanism he tweaked from what he learnt from his elders, that’s some,
STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS stuff!
We where lucky to have Fred look at our local chimney at India Mill's Darwen Lancashire!! He loved this chimney. I personally watched Fred climb India Mill Chimney many moons ago!! Miss this guy so much. R.I.P. Fred Dibnah God bless you.
Oh man I would have loved to see that , what great memories, cheers from the Southern United States
Love the way the chimley as one last Moment of Glory smoke before felling.
Fred's way of chimney demolition is like a condemned person getting one last draw from a cigarette before the inevitable.
Fred’s way was to make the chimney smoke for its final time. Wish I had met the great man in person b
@@speedbirdconcordeBOAB
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Terrible analogy. A person condemned to execution was a criminal i.e. someone who didn't just NOT contribute to society, but actually took from it. Sure, at the time such structures could be considered 'dark satanic mills', but without them, and the cost paid by the British people to persevere through such times, the vast majority of the world's population would still be living as medieval serfs. That, and the quality of the enginering required to enable all that to happen, is why Fred treated them with respect. Get a clue.
@@sunnyjim1355 Heh…you must be fun at parties. That being said, plenty of decent innocent people have been unjustly condemned and executed throughout history. A serial killer can condemn people. So can a dictator. The authorities are not always righteous or good intentioned. Simply being condemned doesn’t automatically mean that a person is of bad character and has contributed nothing of value to society. It just means someone or some institution has sentenced them to punishment or death. OPs analogy is sound.
What a legend. A real clever bloke. Watching him is an art.
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The level of pollution created from burning those tires is so moronic I lost all respect for him. Imagine how many sicknesses this man has contributed towards just for his prideful sense of "tradition". Men like him are idiots.
@@omnipotentpumpkin9755 It was a drop in the ocean compared to China's pollution. Get a life.
@@omnipotentpumpkin9755 Oh shut up you clown.
Damn...the tension ^^^
He’s the kind of person you wish could live forever. What a great man.
Well said 👍
He sits in the same bracket as David Attenborough, he makes things that I wouldn’t normally find that interesting truly riveting with his genuine passion for his craft
I was thinking that, Fred is like the David Attenborough of the industrial world rather than nature
5 Woodbines and 3 pints of bitter, then take on the world.
Fred Dibnah, an amazing man - unrecognised genius.
I am always inspired by his outlook to life.
Well he had a habit of beating up his wife (and pet dog) but apart from that he is a treasure.
tiggywinkle 1000 WHAT IS UNRECOGNISED ABOUT FRED'S GENIUS?????...INSULT.
@@sarahjones-jf4pr Stay off the gin, luv.. shouting is making you look hysterical on line.
Work on your English comprehension a bit when you're straight, eh ?
Oh my
Having a tire fire, climbing those heights without a harness, taking water from a fire hydrant. I couldn’t imagine Fred would get along too well with this generation.
@Stewart J I love watching these videos too. You would think that the, ‘powers that be’ only make rules or laws to make life more difficult.
Not true. They are all based on legal precident which is derived by victims. Not saying he was a malicious person but he definitely didn’t understand why those rules were or remain there. Not going to write it all out, again. My reasons are in other comments of this video though if you really want to know why.
It was a different world afterall.
Scientific progress isn’t bogus and full of merit for economical, health and social reasons.
I wonder if part of the appeal of these programmes at the time might have been that Fred took some risks even by the standards of 1970s health and safety culture. That its not just generational, that Fred did really follow the rules of the time. My dad worked on building sites in 1960s/1970s and even he sometimes thinks bloody hell when we watch these together today.
He's better off dead where he is for all the reasons you said, he's had his life and enjoyed it, he doesn't belong In the computer age
@@pleasureincontempt3645 gypsies are still having tire fires to this day, but you guys in the settled community turn on us and report us straight away to this day .
So piss off with your double standard.
@@benking9503 Ben king of fortnite LMAOOO
Used to see him in his land rover many occasions driving in Bolton, sadly never met him...
The bloke had so much charisma even the people on the next table over were hooked to his chimney story
The narrator sounds like Alan Partridge lol.. Also thank you for the upload I'm having a Dibnah marathon. The Man was/is a Legend.
I wouldn't say he sounds anything like Alan Partridge. lol
Sounds like Harry Gracian
Harry Gration. Bloody terrible.
I'm on the marathon too can't get enough of the bloke
@@edsteele1134 check out my favourite band the Lancashire Hotpots. They have very excellent song in tribute to Fred which is called Dibnah.
He was an amazing man. I like the way the poor chimney got to do it's 'job" one last time before its demise. Wish I had just some of his mechanical skill and knowledge. RIP Fred, gone, but never forgotten.
Was thinking the same thing. A fitting send off
It's Dec 12th 2022, we still watch and listen too our friend fred.who was a national treasure.The day Fred died.Ths day we all cryed.The following day.we remember our old friend Fred dibnah .we our heading into another year without fred.we still remember you and we will never forget Fred dibnah Ur a legend rip
All those kids playing on the fallen tower straight after it’s felled. Imagine that today…. Impossible
The green police would have something to say about burning rubber tyres to.
lol in so many countryes today, its normal, india, china, brazil, pakistan, quatar and a lot more:)
@@borntoclimb7116 yeah they’re less developed, just like you.
Yeah, some old farts would be ringing the police on them and calling them yobs. Christ.
RIP Fred, Guy martin is like a modern day fred dibnah, I could listen to the both of them talk for ages.
Just did mot check on the light blue land rover thp36r and its still running 🙂 , nice to know someone is looking after it. Always loved watching Fred. R.I.P .
Both Landrovers are owned by one of his daughters.
Some classic Fred Dibnah footage . Fred was meticulous with his work and highly skilled. You won’t see anything like this now. He was one of a kind. RIP
He reminds me of my grandad. Such a lovely character, always optimistic, hard working, strong as an ox and as kind as a saint.
Always down the pub for a game of snooker, packet of mini cheddars and a pint !
My grandad was a miner, I remember back in the 90s watching him as a child pulling coal out of his hands when he was in his 80s!
Hard working men, something I am proud to have been brought up around. take pride in what they do with a smile. Wouldn't surprise me if he knew my grandad. he was also an engineer and did lots of work all over UK.
Always a pleasure to see Fred and hear his voice thank you you-tube. a man born 100years after his ideal time.
Fred. A man's man hard working but certainly enjoyed life to the full.
It’s like going into a time warp watching these. Life looked so simple AND no bloody mobile phones and social media making everyone into zombies.
You're on social media right now making this comment.
@@nihilistichris8609 I limit the time and I also filter out all the crap content. Such as dumb comments like yours 👎🏻
@@Snacks8536 I think they used to say that newspapers made people into zombies in the 1800's. the point is to not be powerless to distraction, whether it is mobile phones or newspapers fixing our minds. even in Buddha's day (600BC), he was wailing about distraction, while today, industries are built on the premise to distract. this is a skill that needs training, whether there is social media or only paper words.
Also, if you need to clarify your first comment because someone pointed out a blind spot in it, and then you call their comment dumb, then what is yours? Also, your filter needs fixing if you reply to crap that should be filtered.
How else the zombies going to read this
Said as we watch Fred Dibnah on a mobile phone on a type of social media.
I used to love going to work with my Father , learning from him was priceless, enjoyed every moment, especially knowing that I pleased him and he was proud which he never said but I could tell.
A few of us older yanks know what a clever, hardworking man looks like. Proper man here.
Are you still sucking up to the British Empire 80 years after it’s fallen? Lol
@@TOGGGAA1 are you still posting negative comments because someone showed abit of respect and positivity? needless smh...lol
@@bluemoon7378 liking your own comment? You stink with desperation
@@TOGGGAA1 ah that old chestnut.nah your just alone in your negativity.
@@bluemoon7378 You’re* Wow you’re on a roll
Salt of the earth, working class chap.
With Fred underneath the cheeky chappy grin and earthy humbleness was an engineering genius
One of my regrets was not going to meet Fred at the Black Country museum while he was still with us. Grew up watching his tv programs and really regret not going. Proper Grafter👍🏻
I love these videos of Fred. Makes me sad to think what we are losing though. Men like Fred are on the endangered list unfortunately. A lot of knowledge is gonna die with men like Fred. Thanks for uploading this. I really enjoyed it.
@mug wump knob.
Yep. All we have now are gender indeterminate things.
Fred was a one off. He represented a bygone age dating back to the industrial revolution. Not so long ago, I remember watching a video about Fred's tools, steeplejack equipment, steam engine parts etc... being sold off or thrown away. Very sad. RIP Fred.
Fred wasn’t even typical of his own generation. Most of these types of men had died off before his lifetime. The west has been soft for at least 3-4 generations now.
@@DucknCoverin I have no retort.
Fred Dibnah was an amazing man, there is not many like him in this world today, wish I could have met Fred. Wish he was still with us today. R.I.P Mr Dibnah u will never be forgotten mate. 🙏🇺🇲🗽🏴🏴
I worked with Fred for a couple. Of week and dropped the stann hill ringmillllchimney osswaldtwistle lancs
Always love seeing Fred's bairns out on the engine with him.
RIP Our Fred.
Fred:
"You can 'old drill up pretty easy like, over yer 'ed - only 30 pound of iron."
What a guy!
Stuff like this should be on TV as educational because it really is that good
His occupation is now a lost trade and lost knowledge
Fred uses old telegraph poles someone in a street near his jobs every time is like why can't I use the landline
The water hydrant system I think it's great he's doing what he's doing
Legend has it he rebuilt the golden Gates of heaven for god him self.fly high you legend
I love how the chimney has one last smoke..
@Daz Hughes I understand that after he had nocked a mill chimney down someone told the powers to be and Fred got told off for useing old rubber tires to create so much black smoke.
Very well taught and comment about the clip I totally agree with you wish I had taught of that.
Such an awsome Guy! And the Steam Fair really knocked me off my seat, so many great engines! I very much hope they are somewhere still around as many of the owners may be gone already. Hopefully their relatives saved the engines to honor the work their fathers put into.
I came here thru the vid of Fred´s last chimney, happily seeing him pull up in his trusty Land Rover.
So sad knowing that with those people dissapearing their way of doing things also die out. I love the way of the Steeplejacks letting a once proud monument of craftmanship having one last draw of smoke before it´s over.
One great example of a guy from times past. I took my tape recorder to record the steam fair music- Keep them wheels turning up there, Fred- I´d be happy to meet when my times come.
Did you happen per chance to find out the Music played at the Steam Fair?...
What a Great Man........ brave, humble, witty, creative, knowledgeable and a master of the industrial revolution steam powered engines. RIP Fred. There nowt be another like Fred.
"Safely tested and we'll send our report to the Fire Brigade"
Marvelous.
The year l left secondary school 1991 feels like yesterday lm a 45 year old bastard now
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I have a full time job, live on my own and pay taxes, and this was still 8 years before I was born haha. That said, even for me 1990 feels like 10 years ago. Really fucking weird eh
Well Stuart I left school 5 years later in 1996, but today I am a old fat bastard.
I love watching Fred what a man he was. He's well missed. They don't make um like him anymore ❤
@@signomei --- You sound like a complete man-child yourself. You've been watching too much GBNews or Fox News and reading too much Daily Mail. How are you being punished for being a man? What manly things can't you do now? Beat your wife? Ignore your children? Do you think women are second class citizens? You bandy about all of these right wing misogynistic tropes but you give no examples of how you're being oppressed? So come on, how are you personally being punished by society today? And why do you need a good role model to be a good, well rounded person? Stop moping about and make something of your life and stop complaining that the world is against you.
Love that scaffold he’s build on the Land Rover ..
It was nice to see his son Jack driving Fred's engine at his funeral.
Is there any footage of that?
@@Snacks8536 yes there is a video of his funeral
Absolutely. He did Fred proud 🥲
i understand Fred's sons know another tv personality Guy Martin who repairs motor bikes
Miss Mr Fred dibnah , spent hours watching his videos , very interesting man not to mention the size of his cahonies, how he climbed them chimneys without them falling over with size of his bollox is beyond me.
Guys a legend.
His muscle memory is very keen, some of these hammer blows from 29:12 on are without him even looking.
Yes!! It blew me away. I’ve used a hammer and cold chisel on and off for decades, but those blows … he intuitively knew where he head if the chisel was always. And knew the exact arc of the blow. It was perfection !!
This man was clever, funny and had God looking after him....
Love to have met Fred, R.I.P
Thank God for Mr Fred Dibnah and this new media to show this MAN and his great life I love this man and wish I could have met him and helped him with some of his work and projects.I am in America and had an old uncle and grandfather like him but to young to really understand what they were doing RIP FRED DIBNAH I love you the man I never met
He was too young to die, 66 is still considered young in this day and age. What a loss . RIP Fred.
Old for a steeplejack tho I'd imagine
Radetzky’s March being played on a Mortier 101 key dance organ at 15:33 if anyone’s interested :)
Thank you!
Fred was a legend! I remember seeing this back in the day an was just as amazed as now. I have panic attacks over cutting a doorway in a wall, that man had nerves of Iron!
You can just see the excitement in his eyes when he talks about the gap being half a inch less than when they made it, he knows shes coming down...
I binge watched Fred's videos a couple of years ago and just recently the youtube algorithm just informed i must do it again...so here iam :) what a wonderful bloke sadly Fred's generation have all but left us now and we have the Millennials taking over. Glad i will be WELL in the ground by the time these next generation nutballs will be world leaders.
Top bloke as always, and a tribute to our past recorded well.
I like how he renamed his steam engine after his mom when divorced his first wife.
Wow he's a real man's man
top man thanks for the upload
I was born in 1990 and watched a lot of Fred's programmes with my Dad as a boy. Now it's hard to comprehend someone using these great old school techniques even in my lifetime.
Fred is a legend of extreme, full stop!!!!!
What an extraordinary man
The Dorset Steam Fair returns in August 2022.
Fred was a top bloke and a huge inspiration to me except I stuck to joinery instead of steeplejacking and mechanicing
You're doing a good job.
@@123TauruZ321 thanks 👍🏼
Whate a guy,damm the world need more of these guys ,briljant
Absolute legend.
29:29 Fred wasn't even looking at the chisel as he pounds it with his mash hammer! A true professional. RIP FRED
13:50 little laddie chuntering away in his little flat cap & boiler suit? ha ha, lovely
I'd love to be Jack his son. Learning from the best in his field. RIP Fred I still watch these films/recordings of you being you.
Ahh yes. Nothing burns like a few tires splashed with deisel.
love this, love fred and everthing he did but, im sure this was later than 1991 though, only because the bit at the dorset steam fair, they showed "The Voyager" painted with its stripes. it didnt gain the stripes untill 1993. in 1991 it was plain yellow as can be seen in somevideos on my channel from 1991.
What a great man. Men like frank can do anything. Pinger generation would have done good to listen when he speaks.
His ability to whack a hammer into such a small chisel with such force really showed a man with skill
Well put together piece of Film..
Wey aye, you don't get many men like Fred nowadays especially here in Catalonia.i saw a bit of my late father in Fred and the love of steam tractor engines. I enjoyed this video so much that I just bought one that I found on E Bay but will take around 6 months to get here by ship from Devon in England to Catelonia.
Just found this dude. Damn it's comfy to watch people from this era.
he is a legend shame he is not a living legend now - R-I-P FRED
Legend fred without a doubt
The feller in the orange boiler suit and the beret looks like Ely off last of the summer wine
now thats REALITY TV and a real influencer
Trimendous videos from Fred Dibnah, l say well done Fred .
2022 never get tired of fred
Gone but not forgotten.legend.
Brilliant thanks
This is fascinating stuff
I remember Jack! He used to work at the Isle of Man steam railway with my dad and I remember one time when He was inside a steam engine boiler cleaning it with a shower cap on 😂 thought it was hilarious at that time I was only like 6/7 years old. Jack was a character tho 😊
What a man .
The health and safety men would have a heart attack at watching this lol
I'll always remember my dad pointing out that that's the last time the chimney will smoke..he named his band The Pamonas after a Reddish pub too.. RIP dad and old Fred.
Random man: Those kids come over from yard to mess ere at these poles...knock them they could!!
Fred: Ya ya ya
Random man: And then I come over you see
Fred: Ya ya ya
Random man: And I says to them, why are you pulling that down?
Fred: ya ya ya
Haha love Fred.
Loved that. A classic exchange between a couple of English old timers.
The excavator looks like a fly to that chimney. And then you have Fred.
He knew his stuff.
Usually programmes about steam engines would bore me. There is something about Fred that makes it interesting
Young Jack with a cap like his dad, every sons perfect man is his dad the most inelegant person ever whatever your dad said or did was like God.
“Which means the whole thing is leaning this way” *stands having a casual conversation right next to it*
Saying about stealing water on public television.
Legend
You alrite my mate?......talking to his son Jack....just a great dad!...incredible man and sorely missed!
It's a befitting send off for the chimneys to carry away the smoke high up into the air one final time before their ultimate demise.
"Right, " said Fred, "Both of us together
One each end and steady as we go."
Tried to shift it, couldn't even lift it
We was getting nowhere
And so we had a cuppa tea and
"Right, " said Fred, "Give a shout for Charlie."
Up comes Charlie from the floor below
After strainin', heavin' and complainin'
We was getting nowhere
And so we had a cuppa tea
And Charlie had a think, and he thought we ought to take off all the handles
And the things wot held the candles
But it did no good, well I never thought it would
"All right, " said Fred, "Have to take the feet off
To get them feet off wouldn't take a mo"
Took its feet off, even took the seat off
Should have got us somewhere but no!
So Fred said, "Let's have another cuppa tea"
And we said, "right-o."
"Alright, " said…