American who is afraid of heights Reacts to Fred Dibnah Laddering a Chimney Part 1 & 2
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- How high up does this guy go unharnessed? Watch and see but be aware if a stomach turner.
Original part 1: • Fred Dibnah laddering ...
Original Part 2: • Fred Dibnah laddering ...
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The next upload coming in a couple hours is A MUST WATCH if you want to see a reaction to heights. Holy crap!
@Hey Look Squirrel another great reaction, keep them coming. 👍🇬🇧 Totally sympathize with you on heights I cant go further than 4th run of a ladder.
Oooh yay, I hope it's the video I'm thinking of 🤷♂️
@@JonsTunes you mean the one where he climbs the edge of the chimney. That got to me, that one definitely.
@@JonsTunes el Camino del Rey
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Fred was 66 when he passed away and it was in 2004 he was my uncle and it’s so nice to see people from all over the world watching him xx
❤ he was a wonderful man. Gave me many hours of smiles watching his telly shows. Very much missed by many I'm sure.
Your uncle is a national treasure , remembered with fondness by millions , you must be proud. I have one of his old scaffold boards.
sadly, i never got to meet Fred, god bless him.
Thank you for all you lovely replies he was an amazing man who is sadly missed by many people there will never be another man like him x
He were ace. Reminds me so much of my dad and m my cousins and uncles.
I've still got loads of freds independent programme s on dvd
When ladders were made of wood and men were made of steel.
It's 80s things existed just fred liked old fashioned things
well said paddy
In a nutshell!.
So was his balls...!!!
and died at the age of 34
The Yanks invented Spider Man. The U.K. invented Fred Dibnah. What a legend. Could never be replaced. R.I.P. Fred.
One fake Fred was real
@@Stan-m9s2k Everything about the USA is fake.
No safety net
No hard hat
No body harness
No gloves
No fear
A lifetime of experience
Application to the job
Proud to earn a living in an honest way
What an Englishman
Really enjoyed your understanding of all of this - and the respect you showed.
* and a couple of pints to settle the nerves😂😂🙈
Well said
not sure what English has got to do with it, everywhere was like this at one time and though some UK health and safety regs are absurd, there is also a very good reason we do not do this anymore. It is absurdly dangerous and foolish in fact, no matter how experienced. Romanticising this is ok in a nostalgic sense but fact is, hundreds of people died like this in the past in construction, shipyards and so on or were left with horrific injuries. Nothing at all romantic and wonderful about that.
And a ciggy hanging out of his gob.
And he died in bed!!!!! RIP Fred,
Fred is a working class hero he is a legend .a common man who continued to educate himself and others all his life.
I was a risk consultant and I was asked by Fred's insurance company to have a word with him about safety. What a waste of time. Fred knew exactly how to do it safely. What a character. They don't make them like him anymore.
Someone asked Fred if he’d ever fallen. “Not yet”, said Fred.
@@davidelliott5843 "you only fall once" hell of a guy
It's an afternoon with the undertaker
@@lordbelvoir2543 hahaha. Yeah that's right. Ha brilliant. What a guy hey. Women beer an chimneys.
@@intothewild5045 and dont forget "steam".... 🍻👍
The ladders are temporary which is why the plug wood wasn't treated..they never stayed up longer than the job required. The holes were drilled the 1st time he went up and were used over and over again as the chimneys needed repointing. Near the 1st bottom hole you can see about of pointing which has the initials " FD"and the date scrawled into it 😊
How did they repoint an entire chimney stack from a single ladder? its fascinating watching these old vids
@@danielclough86 he built a working flying scaffold that surrounds the chimney and allowed him to get off the ladder and work all round the structure - he built them first at the top and then rebuilt them several times to cover the whole thing. There is a video on UA-cam where he shows how it's done
@@danieldunlavey6901 Brilliant, thanks for taking the time to reply!
@@danieldunlavey6901jag
The steeplejack's ladder is removed after work is complete and the holes will be re pointed with cement from the top down as the ladders are removed to keep water out. Edit: You got it 😉
Fred was truly a British working class icon and his kind are sadly missed
Fred used to go to the pub at lunch time and have a beer. Then back on the ladder's. The thing that amazes me was him doing ladder's on the overhang at the top of a two hundred foot chimney. That really used to make my toes curl !
Incredible man was Fred
I watched Fred from the original 40 minutes program when I was a teenager , the man is a legend to a lot of us in the UK
And Still is!.
Behind every great engineer like Brunel, there was always somebody like Fred Dibnah that made it all work.
If given a big 3D printer that could use anything and all the material he needed, I wonder what he would want make?
The term Legend is used way too freely nowadays but in Fred Dibnah's case it is fully deserved. He could turn his hand to anything and was so "ordinary" in the way he went about doing it all. He had the kind of brilliant, down to Earth, Northern humility and a way of describing things in layman's terms that was so infectious. If you were ever lucky enough to have a teacher like him you would be able to master anything. Yeah, Fred was and always will be an absolute LEGEND.
A national treasure our Fred was, miss him a lot.
The look on your face is priceless! The one and only Fred. There was and never will be a man like him. God rest his soul.
Fred was a gem I'm so glad I discovered through doing this channel! Thank you for watching.
I did an apprenticeship in demolition before I joined the army, in 1986 Fred did the scaffolding for a steel works chimney we had to demolish by knocking the bricks from under our feet, he lowered the complete scaffolding by hand every morning before we started work, an amazing thing to watch. He was almost certainly one of, if not the best steeplejacks ever.
I think he was the best in my opinion and I also think he knew he was! They don't make them like Fred anymore. I have no more words
One of my favourite episodes of Fred's work was where they questioned him about his lunchtime visits to the pub, and subsequently returning to work at the top of a 200' chimney half pissed.
It's right. He''s gone up there with 3 or 4 pints in him. Or what about when he smokes a ciggie up there. Love him.
In one of his videos he explained you need a pint before going up the ladder. Nobody in his sober mind would climb up a chimney.
The wooden pegs are just temporary. After the work at the top is done the ladders get removed and the holes filled with cement.
This chimney is in my hometown of Atherton (North West England). From being a child just standing at the bottom and looking up to the top still makes me feel dizzy. Fred will always be a legend in this part of the world
Yeah..as soon as I saw the green n white stripe round the chimney knew it was ena mill 😊
What a guy he should have been prime minister more balls and common sense than any politicians will ever have.
Yeah, I'm from bent too. Used to see him knocking about either in his land rover or his steam engine
Thank you for watching OUR Fred and getting his wonderful story to a wider audience. He’s a national treasure and we love the man to bits. ❤ RIP Fred ❤
From a retired old school bricklayer, big respect for the man, the last of a breed .
God bless Fred RIP.
When Fred said he had "laddered" it about 7 times he means he has worked on that chimney numerous times and each time required ladders to be erected. He did not mean 7 sets of ladders...
I always thought he said he was “bladdered” 😂
The perfect answer to health and safety, "he can't do that" - well you climb up and tell him.
I have worked at a lot of places and some places have quite relaxed health and safety rules and some have excessive rules and what’s weird is the places where they was an excessive amount seemed to have a lot of injuries and incidents but at the relaxed places there was never any at all yet all the places were warehouses with the same hazards and equipment etc I also worked somewhere with incredibly strike rules and overbearing management for example if you went to the toilet you had paper work to fill out with how long you were and what cubicle you used … yeah insane mind boggling rules … yet at the same time it had the worst shop floor horse play and pranks etc and the most sackings , it’s like the rules create the madness to justify their existence
The legend that was Fred Dibnah, we’ll never see his like again.
We still have Guy Martin
@@chrisdansey2600 don't think guy Martin has any balls to ladder a 200ft chimney
This is a guy who appealed to all. Something about his approach to life was just fantastic.
Legend.
I have always been amazed that Fred could climb a ladder with balls that big. Legend.
The ladders are TEMPORARY for maintenance, not permanent, therefore not in place long enough for the wood plugs to rot. The holes were made for previous maintenance ladder rigging, (probably by Fred) then cemented up after completion.
I once fell off a 30ft ladder and I didn't hurt myself . . I was stood on the bottom rung at the time mind you 👍
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🤣🤣
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Fred was just real old school , and apart from being a brilliant steeple Jack, he was a very clever man he rebuilt old steam engines, and he was great at drawing , he did a series in the U.K. on ancient buildings and used his own architectural drawings to explain various building methods and they were superb. Rest in peace Fred , from someone who gets dizzy on the fourth step of a step ladder.
One of my heroes sad i never met him even tho i only lived 20 miles away although i phoned him a couple of times but he was out doing his stuff just add that he also trained at first as a carpenter before going steeplejacking
Courageous man, Fred Dibner. That was a brilliant series.
@@johnslattery6194 How come you phoned him a couple of times ?
Don’t forget on his small holding. He was also digging a mine shaft and bricking up the walls on his way down
I think he was an art student once but found the gentle pursuit of climbing around overhangs at 300 feet more appealing.
I used to live in the town that Fred came from - Bolton.
The cemented holes were there because of previous work done to repair the chimney every decade or so. Given the wind, rain and freezing weather of Northern England, the cement/pointing doesn't last the life of a chimney, which is why he's been up and down that chimney over a half dozen times.
Like most skilled tradesmen, Fred will know by sound and feel whether his ladders or other things made from wood were rotten. The reason he doesn't leave the ladders up there is that ladders are expensive and he probably went up a couple of dozen different chimneys a year.
Fred was born and bred in hull then moved to Bolton later on in his life
I remember the media discovering Fred, who had hitherto just been going about his business. He was an absolute natural for the cameras chatting away cooly explaining what he was doing; which on the scale of dangerous things was pretty much right up there. He was an absolute star whether steeplejacking or in his last years messing around with steam engines. Legend doesn't even begin to describe him.
He was a lovely man. A real man.
I wish men were made like that these days; we’re lucky if they even identify as men.
@@catherinerobilliard7662 the internet has broken your brain 🤣
Don’t forget to watch how he puts the scaffold around the top😃
Hauling up steel tube and planks to make a walkway around the chimney is yet another delight.
This is just inspection / estimate. When he goes to work on that chimney, he makes a complete circular platform. Bloody amazing.
The plug holes were there from Fred previously climbing the chimney years before. The guy watching him was his employee who sent stuff up to him on the ropes. The ladders only stay up for the duration of the job then they are removed and stuffed back on the rack on the Land Rover and on to the next job. But he liked a few pints of beer at lunchtime before going back up the ladders. An absolute legend of a man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just an old time working man who was fantastic at his job, great with people and fascinating to watch.
"You didnt tend to last long if you weren't good at the job" said Fred in that pub interview
The most gut wrenching scene I've watched with Fred is from one of his earlier ventures taking a chimney down brick by brick. He stands on the top edge of the brickwork a few inches from the edge of the chimney opening and starts kicking loose masonry off the edge, meaning he's balancing on the edge on one leg. Always gets me. Very interesting to watch someone else's reaction to this sort of thing I must say!
Rest in peace, Fred. Fearlessness, common sense, passion, and genius in equal measures. A true Legend.
Fred builds the ladder up to get to the top so he can do his maintenance work that he's employed to do then he'll remove the ladders when all the works done.
His ladders go home with him...A legend he was.
Well, the ladders come down once the mill owner pays!
Makes me proud to be British.RIP Fred
Don't forget that it's not the fall that kills you,but the sudden stop at the end!!
Fred Dibnah is a British icon. He is a human who truly lived his life to the max. He was hard as nails and was scared of nothing. He did not waste his life watching UA-cam videos. If you can accomplish 5% of what Fred did, you will live a full life.
I'm from Mr Dibnah's neck of the woods. As a boisterous 80s ADD kid (undiagnosed until recently) very little sat me still for half an hour as a child like watching Fred Dibnah did.
His warm nature, charm and abilities as a raconteur had me captivated from a young age. I lost both grandfather's before I was the age of 4, so that might have something to do with it perhaps.
Anyway, when Fred was on the box, my folks used to plant me in front of the TV for some respite themselves, so I've been told!
He's much loved by all round here. Gone, but not forgotten. Indeed, missed by many. RIP Fred.
The knowledge fred had would fill an encyclopaedia 10x over
Fred came to Doncaster Yorkshire on an open day Steam Raleigh, and I had the most wonderful experience chatting to him briefly. He was kind and had time to talk to everybody. A great man with truly nerves of steel.
The chimney had been laddered several times before, in order to make repairs aloft. The wooden stand-offs were not treated against rot, because they were only used for one temporary ladder, likewise the rope and string.
Putting the platform up is equally as jaw dropping! Love it.
Roger it caused me anxiety 🤣
@@TheRealSquirrel your anxiety gave me anxiety 😬
They broke the mould when Fred was born 👍💪🇮🇲
And then he fixed it for them
When fred was born the midwife said 'Its A Man'
Fred is the perfect definition of what used to be called a Bluff Northerner usually by Southerners lol you got a job to do, you get on and do it
Given his chosen profession he probably had the level of awareness, level of concentration and skill as 20 of such people knitted together. His very life depended on every second and every move and he did it so casually. I know he liked a drink but I need a drink just watching him.
true
I'm a southerner and in my book Fred was an absolute legend. No reliance on technology, just age old methods that have worked for years. As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Here we go. Another professional "Northerner" claiming they're hard done by, yet tougher than anyone born and raised on a lower latitude.
Logically, this would mean folks born in Scotland are tougher than you. And those from Orkney must be built like Greek Gods.
What folks in the "north" of England mean is they don't like people in southern England, namely London. Theu have preconceived notions of what people are like and what they think of them.
As a man born amd bred in central England with parents from Leeds and East London I have seen first hand this northern prejudice of looking down on folks from the south. Southerners couldn't give a shit.
Anyway. Fred was a legend. In his own right. He was respected north, south east and west. A real gent and very intelligent craftsmen.
Turns my guts to water every time I watch him. He was a strange and wonderful man.
To get a true idea of how much this guy was loved and admired by the people you need to watch and react the video of his funeral. It’s on UA-cam titled “The Day Bolton Stood Still”
I’ll have a look at it
I think its sad to think that people like Fred, will soon be no longer part of our world.
They are still about it’s just health and safety culture is taking over the world.
People like Fred are alive and well you just don't know of any, not much appetite in the media for this kind of thing it doesn't conform well with the consumer culture they've created.
Fred Dibnah, is a national treasure ..... The man was so calm and precise, I doubt if anyone ever questioned his capabilities .... RIP Fred .
We met fred at a steam rally some years ago , and he took us around the arena on his traction engine , he was a bit worse for wear , but was absolutely adorable .
Fred was, is, and remains a legend, great skills, great brains, and without fear. His brains and skills kept him alive
Fred was like a national treasure when I was growing up he used to be quiet a celebrity but also a very down to earth man
I went an seen his steam engines when i were a kid was me grandads best mate :)
just as well he never came too down to earth...
He is a national treasure!
Fred was a legend. The man was fearless and most of all he was humble. I would have loved to have met him and shook his oil covered hand as he loved his steam engines. Fred used to repair chimneys as well as demolishing them. That's why he had holes already in the chimney.
Never tire of watching these... genuinely. Have a look at “how to climb a chimney overhang at 50+” ive watched it so many times and my brain still can’t compute how someone’s mind allows them to feel no fear while doing something so fraught with danger at just one wrong move.
I bumped into Fred Dibnah in an indian restaurant in blackburn over 20 years ago. Even when out with his family for an evening meal he was wearing his flat cap and boiler suit jacket. Absolute legend
Love watching Fred and even though i know he didn't fall, my hands and feet are tingling just watching.
They broke the mould after Fred was born. I had a crack with him on the phone once, just as genuine a fella as you see here.
My dad worked heights all his life, but even he winced somewhat when watching Fred Lol!
You're right, they did brake the mode with Fred. So Fred being Fred made another one from scratch in his backyard
My Dad worked on live overhead electricity at height, but he wouldn't have done what Fred Did.
@slingshotvibe what do you mean when you say you can't get your age group up a ladder? Wtf are you on about? People say such bullshit things 🤡
@@Sycophants_should_suffer like you?
@@ajorngjdonaydbr 😴
remember that iconic photo of the New York skyscraper being built, and the men having lunch on a beam with legs dangling, not a safety harness in sight , think i would have passed out .
I can imagine that photo and it makes me anxious.
They admitted recently in the papers that the photo of the New York workers was a fake and was done in a studio.
Fred from Lancashire, us Yorkshire folk had the upmost respect and admiration for his down to earth attitude and skill
I met the guy several times mostly at traction engine rallies. Had some great conversations and parties at night times sitting around the rally fires. Top man and great engineer. RIP Fred.
Fred is an English national treasure! What a guy! 💪
let's see these muscle bound, tattooed, pretty boys do this job then.
Why them? Have you had a go? I doubt muscle bound, tattoed, pretty boys did the job back then either! Too busy joining the merchant marine.
@@jeffhubbard4688 Ooh hello sailor your a nice boy.
(In a Dick Emery voice)
@@dave_h_8742 What are you: the ship?
Let's see you do this job then.
Apart from no fear of heights, incredible bravery he must have had very strong upper and lower body strength. No need for him to attend a gym.. apart from that he often went up with a few pints inside him and then smoked away while working at that height
I grew up with blokes like Fred throughout the family, and as a 11yr old I started working for my uncles scaffolding company on Saturdays, and I used to climb scaffolding with no ladders, no safety harness or anything, but now I can't even go up a bloody ladder.
Different times they were, proper salt of the earth guys like Fred were, every dinner time they were in the pub for a sandwich and five or six pints (within the hour) and then straight back up to the job.
Just reach the top and "Oh bugger need to go down for a pee"
@@crus1n Or maybe don't bother to go down.
When Fred leans back, I nearly pass out...
Yes
Fred Dibnah. A British national treasure. A man born out of time - he'd happily have lived in Victorian times. He went effortlessly from Steeplejack to TV presenter, interested in everything. Brilliant at getting points across, and creating beautiful artwork and models to do so. They broke the mould with Fred. A true one off.
How Fred can climb that chimney with titanium balls the size of space hoppers is an art in itself.
Fred was and still is a legend absolute genius with his work and steam engines
Fred Dibnah MBE
R.I.P
He's from Bolton where I live. Fellas are tough up here.
Your face is full of admiration for Fred and that's wonderful.
I've watched Fred since I was a kid.....And I still get sweaty palms when I watch him.....Proper legend.
It says 1989. It’ll be a date the chimney was worked on. The chimney would almost certainly have been build in the 19th century. The ladders are Fred’s, they only go up whilst work is going on, then they get taken down.
I think 1989 was the date of the filming (I lost track of the first broadcasts). But this is a fairly modern chimney.
Fred was a legend I love watching the scaffolding and how he pops to the pub for lunch.
It's like being stuck at the top of a ladder and someone says "Just come down the same way you went up" ... "P**s off! I came up head first" >_
😂😂👍👍
Fred Dibnah, engineer, steeplejack and all round legend. Watched him on TV years ago, it was almost compulsory viewing if you knew he was going to be on.
What made Fred Dibnah truly exceptional was the fact that his immense physical capabilities were matched by his intellect. He had a profound knowledge of applied mechanical engineering.
Loved the series he did when he knew he was dying where him and his mate went a trip round the country in his steam engine. The best TV.
Not only was Fred a working class hero, he was a helluva steam engineer. A very intelligent man who was down to earth.
His art is good to he initially went to study art then became a draftsman
@@lukealexanderrobertsthefir458 Very cool! I didn't know that.
@@Drewboo1968 I think sone of his drafts sold a few back for a few bob
When he wasn't up a chimney!
This chimney is five minutes from my home and currently has a ladder all the way up just like Fred's. The man is a legend. Great video.
Is it still standing?
Fred was awesome and a joy to watch. Far better than today's pampered footballers and warblers. Highly intelligent a brilliant engineer. Fearless and so down to earth. Fred is a true legend and superstar. I doubt if Fred would have liked that label though. He was a true humble working man we all love him. RIP FRED
It's funny how they've got a MASSIVE crane to FILM the process, yet the work is done manually.
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That was Fred's Tonka toy when he was young.
@@philipm06 haha.
Well, he's got one of his own.
His train thingy is amazing.
I live about 2 mile from where Fred used to live. Also stood at the sidelines at his funeral. There is also a statue in the town centre of Fred. I also met Fred on some of his jobs, the firm I worked for hired Fred some equipment and I went out to repair it. A very clever and underestimated bloke.
Someone commented one time imagine how much better he would have been without his vices, I replied they are probably part of what made it possible lol
As someone who's watched the original video many times, and is somewhat scared of heights, I love the way people react to Fred at the top of the second ladder when I know there are many many more to go! 🤣😂🤣
And occasionally he came out of the pub to do this...and when questioned he said....well you wouldn’t want to do it sober....
the irony of being called squirrel and not liking heights lol
And not having the nuts to do it.
@@keegan773 top bantz.
Your reaction to this was golden squirrel.. Everything Fred puts up is removed after the job is finished.. Its impossible to say how many times Fred has used those same ladders.. The holes are made by the steeple Jack's themselves.. No one thought about the maintenance of them when they were built.. Can't wait to see your reaction to the scaffolding video.. Pmsl..
Scaffolding video will come but watch the next upload if you want to see me scared out of my ass
God old Fred. Tough as old boots and hard as nails.
Legend, the strength and stamina needed for his job is mind boggling, his grip omg, must have been like a vice.. they broke the mould with Fred, an amazing man...sadly missed.
Old Fred was a down to earth northern commoner no hairs and graces with Fred.
When he took his family on holiday. He made sure he would take them where his job was. So the family was sunning it on the beach while he was working. Also he built a chimney on his terraced house. And now it is a listed monument.
Told ya squirrel. The nuts go funny every time. You know what I mean boy??? The holes have been put in previously and ladders put up and taken down. The holes are pointed with morter when the ladders are taken down.
he mentions that the rope was made from hemp. once upon a time, all rope, string, twine and cloth was made from hemp. your jeans, all lace, plus almost all paper, were made from hemp. the sails on the tall ships, as well. it's the longest lasting, hardest wearing fibre on the planet. then it was made illegal, although a lot of rope was still made from it. it even gets stronger, as it gets older. it's becoming legal again, although small amounts have always been grown, here in the UK, for things such as rope and string
In one of the historic dockyards, I believe it’s Portsmouth, they have a shed where they made the hemp rope with all the necessary equipment. The ‘shed’ must be over 100yds long!
@@marcuswardle3180 It's in Chatham not Portsmouth
@@blazer666del Thank you Derek, I thought it was Portsmouth but couldn’t ever remember seeing it there and as I used to have a year pass I questioned myself over the location.
Great video, Fred had nerves of steel,,, no fear, he is missed to this day , a Great British Man , and a hero , what a character 👌
Balls of steel that guy had, I am with you on this one Squirrel there is no way you are getting me that high up on a ladder held by a bit of string and blowing about in the wind.
I have death grip when cleaning out my guttering on my conservatory which is about 10 feet high.
fred dibnah was a legend was he fearless was he just so confident in his ability or just brain dead over the risk prob all but what a man a LEGEND RIP FRED
Fred was a real man. His knowledge was vast and varied. The man was a joy to listen to. It is rare to have a presenter who is a true expert in the subject matter. Not only did he have the theoretical knowledge but the man lived it.
Fred had done some renovations on this chimney before and he used the same holes as before, he even signed the cement with his initials 👍🏻
Don't feel alone.......it scares the s**t out of all of us!
Fred is definitely a legend but it is soo funny watching and listening to Squirrel's reaction. Great stuff!
Remember he has to do this twice, one on opposite sides. So he can see both sides. Most firms would know and trust the person they hired so he'd get the contract.
Fred neglected his first wife as he also spent a lot of time reconstructing a steam engine in his back garden. He was asked to do some repairs on a chimney in Blackpool in the north west of England and he took his wife and two daughters with him and told them it is a holiday. When they returned home, his wife Alison too his daughters on a proper holiday in Spain and when she returned home, she took the kids and left Fred. Quite sad really. There's a fascinating Fred Dibnah story that you should watch.