American Reacts to Fred Dibnah Laddering a Chimney pt. 1 and 2
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Fred couldn't use a manlift sadly
No company was able to build a manlift strong enough to carry Fred's massive balls
Guy took down a chimney by hand.
Fred had stones so big that wrecking balls were rendered obsolete lmao
Haha so true brother,only 2 freds bring history to life this fred and mr fred flintstone...both are my heros.
Lol
I wish he was around to read these.
He missed a cult following he never knew he would have.
But tbh Doubt it'd make much difference but make him politely smile and say.
"That's nice that int it?"
Fred was like a "touchstone" the awe to be close to him, he sprinkled "Brave" around him.
I’m
Fred’s grandson this makes me proud that people in America are watching my grandad ❤️❤️ Thankyou to the channel host
Did he teach you any tips or knowledge?
@@ukdashcamguy500 hello oh yes we used to stay over n play in the garden I remember he had a big brass plate we used to take turns see who’d polish bits of it best I miss him so much I’m proud ❤️❤️❤️❤️
He built a chimney on my grans house off Manchester rd Bolton where he grew up in and to this day it’s still there it’s on one of the documentaries from the 1980,s he used to look up from his bedroom upon Weston street and the train bridge was facing his window this is what intrigued him into all he ever did
@@moneybackmoneybackmoneymon726 you have every right to be proud. He was a one in a million guy.
We all love Fred.
The man is a legend. He spent his entire life doing jobs the “old way”, his knowledge of the Victorian era & post Industrial Revolution was impressive to say the least.
Fred was an absolute legend in the UK, a real character, died far too young.
Age 66 from bladder cancer, 5 kids.
RIP Fred.
You will have to watch him "laddering an overhang" Dear God you could not pay me enough to do that .
One Lady asked him " Have you ever fallen off a chimney"
Fred " No - You tend to only do that the once "
I'm with you there. He was a legend.
You wouldn't catch me going on the crane!
I was sh##ing myself when painting the upstairs bedroom window frames, years ago.
I think Alan needs to climb up one of those chimneys when he visits the UK.
Fred's reply put a smile on my face.😀
He was a man born out of time, as well as a steeplejack, he was an engineer, a keen amateur historian, had excellent draughtsmanship skills...sadly one of the last of his ilk.
Pisshead and prob wife beater too but I like the fella
Bricky...
@@stevec4471 neither from what i know hes was a friend of my best mates dad
He used to rnd my mates dads n sit on there sofa in his overalks 🤣🤣
Fred was a man who could turn his hand to anything!
RIP Fred.. The legend, Gone but literally never forgotten
You missed the real “sweaty palms” bit, when he lashes the rigging and boards to the top of the chimney and climbs over the overhang! Balls of cast iron our Fred!
Exactly because the ladder is not straight up any more but leans out at an angle in order to pass the overhang.
Every time I watch that bit, my arsehole puckers like a piper's lip...
Have you ever tried to climb a ladder angled like that, your feet want to come off? I am sitting in a chair watching sweating.
@@CarlPaulsen The old brown balloon knot gets twitching like a rabbit’s nose.
When he says _I've done this 7 times before,_ he means this specific chimney.
Exactly!
Correct
@@ItsOnlyNiall he never fell off..lol
@@user-lo7es6gw1x you think ?? 😉
@@user-lo7es6gw1x Well, you only get one mistake.
Blokes like Fred are what made Britain the world power it used to be. If something needed to be done, it got done, no fannying about, just hard work, determination, and a pint or 10 of beer. The type of bloke every boy would have loved to have as a granddad.
The way he did this has not changed for over 150 years. Until modern equipment, he was the last true Jack.
So many of us Brits forget that Great Britain is actually the name of the island that we live upon, as opposed to any of the smaller ones( Pomona, Man, Ireland, Anglsea etc).Fred however, was a Great Briton, in the sense of his own achievements, a " Legend in His Own Lunchtime".
Agreed
My old man said when he worked in the Scottish shipyards all the guys were pissed to the eyeballs, throwing up after lunch then starting again, but built the best ships in the world, funny that, maybe we need booze back in the workplace!
Beer lubricates workingman's genius
Fred Dibnah worked on 1 of 2 huge chimneys that were next to each other, were I grew up in 1982. He was a 1 off, true bloke. RIP Fred Dibnah, you were a legend. Who else is thinking "wait till u see him do the staging, at the top"?
The guy was and still is a legend in the UK.
Dude is a fucking legend, Britain needs more men like him again
Men like that are born of necessity and hard times. It's unlikely you'll breed people like that anywhere in the developed world these days.
There would be if Thatcher didn’t sell us out
The health and safety police put an end to that
Britain was full of men like Fred . Great men great Britain
I think Fred's reference to seven times before, means he's climbed that particular chimney 7 times before. And his 'fear" is what allowed him reach a ripe old age . Big balls for sure. Before the age of health and safety, and being tied on the things. You could see any job on a chimney or church steeple could be you're last as one tiny mistake is all it takes. He's the man.
Fred lived like a victorian. If he had been born 150yrs ago, isambard kingdom brunel would have gone to fred to learn his trade.
For sure Fred would have been on IKB's team.
IKB would of gone to Fred and said "I've got this idea how would you do it"
@Andy XxX So was Fred and a very good one at that .
@Andy XxX fred built steam engines, the equipment to do it, had a full steam workshop, collected and studied everything about victorian engineering. He was an expert on archecture and knew alot about industrial history and archeology. He could hand build the tools to build the steam engines, as well as understand the design and science behind it. IKB designed things.
Fred's biggest regret in life was he was born 100 years too late. Very touching when he said it. I think he was on a visit to an old steam powered mill.
Thankfully I got to meet him and visit his house, when I was about 6-8 years old, with my dad. He was a friend of my grandads, however Fred was friends with everyone in Bolton. Great bloke, sadly missed.
Fred didn’t invent these techniques; he is using old Victorian steeple jack skills that time has forgotten. And this was his job. Legend.
Fred was a legend . This is no exhibition, this is how the guy worked. He rebuilt steam engines and machinery as well. The man loft was for the camera guys.
I think the chimney scaffold video is even more heart stopping.
Indeed, man had balls of steel.
oh yes, the looking down through it definitely adds pucker
The scaffolding round the top of the chimney always makes me feel sick when you watch Fred climb out on the overhang and the scaffold is all moving
Definitely. Amazing, brave and crazy bloke he is
Yeah it defo is there all good let’s have it men of Steel the men of old he’d have 3 to 5 pints before going up
Famous saying by Fred - "You only fall off once and then it's half a day out with the undertakers"
Fred was like an Engineer from the Victorian era transported to the 20th century. Hugely knowledgeable and continued to make tv series despite suffering from cancer from which he died in November 2004. Still classed as a 'National Treasure' . His programmes are often re-run.
I went down the Fred dibnah rabbit hole of videos a few years ago and trust me it gets even more insane...I don’t know how the guy was able to carry those massive balls up those ladders
Same here! Watched them all. Sad when the wife left him, he was in bits.
I miss this kind of programme-making. These days there would be all sorts of dramatic music, camera edits, arguments between Fred and the other bloke. All in the name of 'drama'.
Give me this old-school type of programme ANY day.
Ah, back in the day before the BBC was shit. When reality TV showed actual reality, rather than Jay Blades and his buddies pretending to repair some junk shop crap.
I agree. I'm 25 and prefer the older programs. Just simply better
Abso-blankin-lutely. Totally agree. And there was me thinking it was just me.
You get better quality stuff on UA-cam now. Watching two channels build wooden boats and it's got no drama, well produced, better quality than anything on tv
if filmed now Fred would be up against a pointless fictional deadline " he's got 2 days to drop the chimney or else....."
Fred's not climbed seven chimneys - he meant that he's climbed that particular chimney seven times. Man's a legend.
About to say the same thing.
Freds the man. No doubt. 🇬🇧
He climbed and felled hundred's of chimneys. The man was truly a legend
Yup we all knew that but ...
Fred was one of the last of the old school steeple jacks, he still used the old methods and was being filmed to record his methods. He was famous for his knowledge of old engineering and a legend in the UK.
Fred and his kind were men who had real balls. There are few who would go up a chimney like that. The classic for me is when he passes over the overhang. Once the ladders are strapped to the chimney there is great footage of him climbing the entire length of the ladders with tools and lunch tied to a rope round his waist. He climbs the entire length of the ladders in a one without the use of safety rope, passes the overhang and then stands on the top smoking a cigarette and throws the butt over the side. His classic lone is that you ride a bicycle round the top. It is some of the best documentary footage you'll ever see. I saw this footage when it came out several years ago and it made Fred an instant hero. I am from Lancashire in the UK and Fred is missed greatly since he was an absolute legend.
Glad that Fred has made it across the pond.
He’s a working man hero here in the UK.
PEACE ✌️
Fred is deeply missed, he was the sort of person everybody wished they knew personally and despite being famous throughout the whole UK, he never let it change him. Old fashioned and brilliant.
would have loved to have a few beers with him
Well said and spot on 👍
If he was still alive he would be in my top ten legends list to go to the pub with on day 1 after lockdown.
@@richardamner7432 And in a perfect world, we'd come out the pub the day after :)
that was his job ,not for show ,he did it ,day in day out ,he was a national treasure and sadly missed by all :(
Toughest part is dragging his mamooth kahoonas up the chimney.
Bravest Englishman ever. Ever.
RIP Fred ..Closest we have left with us now is Guy Marttin. No messin No fear .
Fred, a legend in the U.K. and a national treasure. Biggest balls in the world. Never affected by the fame he got. Much missed
I second that.......
he was a legend and I loved his programs at one time I watched with pride coming from Bolton myself, shame he was a wife beater
I miss Fred being on TV, his shows were somehow both calming and absolutely edge of your seat, nightmare inducing terror
BBC Four are showing a series of his programs there's one on every weekday at 7 p.m. and repeated again around 1 a.m.
@@kinasc1575 ahhh cool thanks for the heads up, much appreciated
There was one of his programs on tonight. 23rd Feb’21. It’s probably on iPlayer now or in a few hours.
Just type his name in UA-cam and quite a few pop up. The overhanging tower can make you scared of heights while your sat in a chair.
@@hadrianbuiltawall9531 I can't watch the end of this one hahaha
Fred was a national treasure, his knowledge of engineering and mechanics from the Victorian age was amazing. He had an incredible knowledge and hands on experience never see his like again.
There is no question, Fred was very intelligent. He was multi-talented. He originally went to art school, and his drawings are something to behold. He was a natural born engineer, there wasn't much he couldn't design, fix or improve. He had nerves of steel, as witnessed by his work at extreme heights. And lastly, he was thoroughly entertaining, which accounts for the huge TV viewership which he richly deserved.
I knew Fred drank with him and spoke to him a few time boy the man could drink. The lift platform would be filming and if he had to hire on it would cost a fortune. They have to many wind restrictions on the lift platforms so he wouldn’t be able to use them and would lose to many work days. Fred was up those chimneys rain shine wind you name it he was a worker and didn’t take fools gladly. Was a sad day when he passed.
Absolute legend was Fred 👍 Kev hope you concur with putting Freds knowledge into our school curriculum 😀
Common occurrence to see his land rover driving round back in the day round Bolton. His love was his steam engines had his own collection.
Built a statue of him which resides in the town centre still
Yes, That's correct. That platform was just for the film crew.
God didn’t rest on the 7th day, he created Fred Dibnah who told God “put yer feet up pal, I got rest of t build covered!”
He was from Bolton 🤣
@@nickgoode8579 Aye I know but I didn't know how to put that accent into words 🤣🤣🤣
Is Bolton more thee thar and they.
Instead of to, t and int. Like the leeds lot?
@@xPadge112x I should know better as my father is from Diggle and sounds exactly like Fred 🤣🤣🤣
@@dingapotamuss6213 bolton is in lancashire not yorkshire fred sounds more like peter kay not me
That’s why Fred was Fred . Absolutely fearless. It’s amazing watching him it really is. I don’t think anyone will ever be like him again. And he was born about 70 years too late. Just incredible he definitely knew what he was doing. 💪🏼.
It was still cheaper to get Fred to sought out the work, than hire modern gear. All the same, each time I watch Fred my arse tightens up.
And faster.
Fred would have had the job was half done before the modern scaffolding would be half way up that chimney.
i live just down the road from Fred and can remember when i was a kid him driving past my house on his steamroller. with about 20 kids chasing after him trying to climb on the back. i know because i was one of them.
No u don't live down the road from Fred!!! Impossible....
@@davidg8711 ?
@@yuh_uh420 what?
@@davidg8711 why impossible?
@@dickhead2717 because he's as dead as a doornail...
He did a string of documentaries about building Britain. The no BS honesty and insight is just brilliant compared to the stiff authority by some narrators.
They were on BBC Iplayer very recently, sat and watched them all myself. Quite educational and 'easy watching'
'Never Shall We See His Like Again.........springs to my mind. Youngsters have it too easy..sorry
@@rmcguire7033 absolutely spot on! No grafters left. If today's youth was placed in 1939-1945 we would all be German now, sorry to say.
i'm pretty sure all 7 parts of the documentary on him are here on youtube
@@scotgoth I was referring to Fred Dibnahs Made In Britain, which had 12 episodes. Its actually on UA-cam as well tbh though..
He is England's hero, and always will be! Rest in love Fred.
He's a proper old school hard Northen Englishmen
You’ve not even seen the bit where Fried has to negotiate the Chiminey rim, “not even King Kong has balls that big!”.
That's a gooden made me laugh
You've got to watch that one.. My heart was in. My mouth the whole time.
Mountain climbers negotiate overhangs all the time.
There's one where he gets to the top of a chimney, and it's bigger than he thought. And he shouts 'you could ride a bike up here'
@@streetkaaccord344 i remember seeing that for the first time and cracking up at his comment. Better than "one small step for......."
Fred was a national treasure here in England. Not only repaired the chimneys, but also knocked them down -worth seeing. Fabulous Character - god bless him. RIP.
FRED WAS A OLD STYLE SKILLED WORKER,THE LIFT WAS FOR THE CAMERA CREW THIS WAS SECOND NATURE TO FRED,THE LAST OF HIS KIND..RIP FRED.
Fred knocking a 300 feet chimney down brick by brick. He's a legend
We Brits loved this man, he was a legend. When he died all his skills were lost forever. The world needs men like him, the only one who comes close is GUY MARTIN he has balls of steel too.
This! 😎👍
Here we are watching the documentation of his skills that Fred left for future generations. While they have fallen out of practice, those skills are not lost due to a great man. I know it's not quite the same, but it's still a wonderful achievement.
Both hard core northerners.
Guy Martin is brave but not that bright. Fred was very bright.
@@tooyoungtobeold8756.......,i would not judge this on brightness, this is Dibnah's working life, Martin, we mostly see his hobbies, not the smarts he take to his working life.
Alot of knowledge and wisdom was lost when fred left us.
Yes it was sadly 😔.
Some of the old ways yes..... But this is a traditional way of laddering a chimney stack ... not much different today apart from the safety lines.....
Yes we did, but there are lots of Fred type guys working away in the background that just haven't been discovered. I used to love fred
The man was a legend, my stomach would be churning sitting in that cradle on the crane just doing the filming!
Watch the scaffolding by our Fred around the top of a chimney for another scare. Then watch the one where he climbs to the very top over the collar. He angles the ladders and simply climbs up at an angle. It's how they did things back then.
When he says he's done it 7 times before, he meant hes done THAT CHIMNEY 7 times, those holes are nicely spaced because he drilled them. And english health and safety are just as impressed with freds methods. Thats why he was popular, everyone watching thought he was crazy. However, he is actually a genius and was a living museum even when he first became famous in the early 80's.
Says something that even if they used the crane to lift and secure the ladder to the chimney, they'd still use the ladder to work off. Once its fastened its going nowhere.
Fred was a national treasure. Thank you for your tribute.
I knew Fred for years and helped him out on occasions. He was still doing this 15yrs ago. You need to see him board the top and also climbing out over a parapet!!
"The Dib" was a legend and a very knowledgeable fella, need more of his type
brilliant old fred deid in 2004 RIP he is a legend and balls of steel watch all his stuff he was from Bolton Northen England proper English accent
Fred had Adamantium balls
Balls of phosphor bronze.
He died because the soft millennials had arrived
@@deanburrell5595 'Soft milenials' had arrived way before then considering the older 'milenials' are pushing 40. You're probably misusing that label for generation Z. Most people make the same mistake as they don't know what they're talking about. This whole milenial/boomer labelling shite is getting really old.
The man was all that it means to be a northerner, a true legend.
Men like him built this country and men in fancy suits tore it down
Men in dirty boiler suit's and flat caps built this country, men in suits with expensive ties ruined it.
::Fred Dibnah.
@@johnbeck1978 alas the pen is mightier than the sword
Have you heard the story when Fred sent the tv producer up the ladders in his pin stripe suit?
It’s scary...
@@Durgesuth not heard that one, be nice if there was some footage of it
@@arto679
ua-cam.com/video/X-_9K9W5FM8/v-deo.html
Fred is a legend in my home town of Bolton. Got to see the great man working in his garden one day and say hi as he only lived up the road from where I lived 😊
When he said he had done this about 7 times, he means this particular chimney 7 times, that is why the holes he is using are in the right spaces for his ladders
Fred’s saying was.......if you fall off them, it’s half a day out with the undertaker....you tend to only fall off them once....lol 👍🤣🇮🇲
And he probably had a few beers at lunchtime as well...
Probably?
That was the done thing, when I worked in the shipyard. The barman in the snooker club had 3 or 4 trays of beer and a couple of trays of whisky and vodka ready when we arrived, just so he'd have a chance of keeping up with the orders, the other pub we went to used to serve up free soup and bread to go with our pints. Good times, doesn't happen anymore. That said, the canteen where I work is licensed... 🤔
It dates back to when water wasn't fit to drink, so all the men in heavy industry like forging etc. would hydrate with pints of weak beer because the water used in brewing had been boiled, so beer was safer to drink than water!
I'd have to drink a pub to do what he did
A few brown ales at least..😂😂
yes, agree with Finbar Stadt, the guy is a legend. I met Fred once, and hes from same town as me! Bonkers worth ethic, i have trained work at height, world apart from Fred, so
cant believe what he used to do. Yes a hammer and pointy object is a drill, a hand drill, we moved on to wind up one after that, then an electric one!
Fred is a legend a huge engineering and history fan
Never will the world see another man like this
A true gent
Fred is a Lancashire legend .
And yes , it is how they were still doing it.
Check out the one with the overhanging chimney. Or Fred episode 4 : drinking and climbing gives an insight into the fellow himself ( and north west England/Lancashire).
This is the one that had me shaking my head - and I used to go mountain climbing. Just bonkers!
yep similarly, natural heights, no problem, but those, you'd have to remove my fingers from the rungs with a crowbar
The one where he goes to the pub for lunch? Nice looking pint.
I got a job erecting tower cranes in 1970s shown basics in company yard just 1st couple of sections rest was on site we erected a 240ft crane and guys went to the pub to celibrate toping out then went back to finish the gib/arm these guys were not only going out climbing along the side of the arm to the end but walking along the beam on the top of the triangle arm no harness and more than a couple of pints in them! I quit before 2nd job didnt trust myself not to do same.
Born and raised in my home town of Bolton, North West England. We have a statue to him on Newport street.
That statue looks nowt like Fred!
Just to say, my friend has Bolton ' s first ever number plate, BN 4, 1904
He had a nice house in the centre
I’m a Londoner, and respect him through and through. Well done Fred
Are the statues of Peter Kay and Big Sam coming soon?
My son is 21 now, and when he was about 3 we got satellite TV and Fred Dibner was his favourite, we had to watch everything
There's a video on here of Fred climbing a chimney after he had laddered it and that had a 5 foot overhang. Watching him climb higher and at an outward angle put me right on edge watching it. Was a very talented man. Worth a watch if you've not already seen it.
Fred was a friend and drinking buddy of my father. I have met him several times and he is what you see. He was born 150 years to late, he should have been Victorian.
I agree there, especially when he described the landscape when he was a young man, described the dying manufacturing, factories and all the chimneys
Actually, I beleive he was a Victorian! Thoroughly nice chap though. Met him a couple of times,
He was born in 1938 so 150 years earlier would have made him a Georgian not a Victorian and there'd have been precious few chimneys for him to climb :)
@ Heathcote Pursuit: I was talking spiritually and mentally. The man was a legend!
I was with Fred doing a chimney repair and lunch time he'd had 6 pints of beer and went back up the chimney.
And I'll bet he was almost sober as a judge while climbing it...
@@barnabus1976 yes he said he has a few more if it's cold as it numbs the pain, fantastic man, same off screen as on.
Fred was one of are national treasures still is I grew up watching him and still love watching him to this day it's great to see other people from around the world can now have have the pleasure in watching this great man!!
The one where he climbs the overhang makes me feel really dizzy.
Yup absolutely sickening to watch
the one where he's taking the chimney down brick by brick & he walks around the top of a crumbling chimney is the one.
The one where he Blows his Car Horn After it fell down.....
@@matthewparsons4955 did ya like that?
#IndiaMill in Darwen? Another TV Legend John Noakes also did this climb too ua-cam.com/video/SF00yKxp9LU/v-deo.html
Fred was the David Attenborough of the engineering world. He was awesome and truly unique.
I could (and have) watch Fred Dibnah all day long. They don't make them like him anymore.
Completely agree, I met him when I was a kid at a Steam Rally.
@@danielthomas1735 this comment is almost copy and paste. Seems like so many met him. Good that he was about and so approachable.
Every time my dad used to complete something at home his favourite frase was Fred dibners " did you like that" He was very much a Fred dibner my old man.. working class heroes if there every were
Puts John Noakes climbing Nelson`s column firmly in the shade ! I was lucky enough to meet Fred at a Steam Traction Engine Rally in Cheshire - a lovely man. Interesting to note that the camera crew refused to film Fred climbing the chimney unless they were given saftely harnesses and hard hats (both of which Fred din`t need).
The one I love is 'fred dibnah, how to climb an overhang at 50+' more suspense than any horror film lol
That one makes me sweat just watching it
@@johnbeck1978 yep every time.
Not exaggerating, went dizzy watching that
India Mill. In my home town or as I say "Mi 'ome town"
Yet Fred said that chimney was a friendly one.....
Curls my toes thinking about it😀
Back in the days that a tradesman could support a good sized family...
Nowadays... 2 adults worked to death and not even able to support basic lifestyle let alone kids..
Totally agree. The Capitalists, fund managers, tax accountants, consultants? have all got there greedy noses in the trough. The good wages have gone for ever.
So true my mum and dad bought us up on a digger drivers wage. We had holidays 2 cars and raced moto x. Know i drive the same type of machine and have to do 6 days a week just pay bills. Its just all a trap
A miserable time for you, but just to say, it wasn't easy either, we went without things that people take for granted, no car, phone, central heating, washing machine, not even a fridge for years, definitely no holidays either., but it was easier to get a mortgage, we borrowed three times my ex's s salary, £ 2, 700 to buy a £ 3.000 house and borrowed the £ 300 deposit, I was earning £ 7 Pw, doing evening work, it was hard tbh, all the washing was done by hand and disposable nappies were unheard of.
Exactly!
Somewhere in the 60's, the workforce were doubled. Now that should mean that the household income was too, but in general that certainly does not seem to be the case.
I feel that somewhere, someone is laughing all the way to the bank.
I'm almost 40years old, I remember seeing Fred demolish a similar chimney in my hometown when I was around 10 years old, I've recently found out that he charged less than £1000, (around $1700 at the time)
That was in 1990,
In 2008, only 18years later a statue was erected in his memory, at a cost of £46,000.
People filming themselves climbing cranes on youtube as a hobby make more money than he could ever imagine.
He worked 100 times harder than any modern construction industry executive for 1000 time less money.
I was lucky enough to meet and watch Fred on a number of occasions as a child. Even watching him working up a chimney like this a couple of times. I don't think we'll ever see someone like that again.
No matter how many times I watch Fred do this in these videos it never fails to trigger my vertigo! He's a true legend just like the men who came before I'm. The unsung heroes of the industrial age of Britain! 🇬🇧🏴🏴
Over in the UK we are very proud of our boy Fred such a kind and gentle soul is great we have films to remember him. Decent reaction vid.
It broke his soul making money from destroying Lancashire's last large industrial chimneys.
End of an empire..
It did. Better him than some random though. He kept them safe and pretty for years then took them down at the end.
This man was a national treasure. There will never be another like Fred Dibnah
27:40. it seems to be just realising on you, how much respect this man deserves. He does the work the honest, old way. No frills, just bloody hard work.
The lift was just for the film crew, Fred always did it old school.
It frightening to watch Fred at heights even knowing that he survived his career as a steeplejack. He was, and is, immensely popular as a TV presenter as he’d talk to experts and in getting answers for himself he got them for his viewers. Guy Martin does similar today.
One thing to note on the wooden plugs for the dogs, they have to be bone dry seasoned timber so if they get damp they expand and tighten the grip , if the wooden plugs are damp or fresh they will shrink and your dead..
I often drive past this chimney and always think of Fred when I see it.
The legend that is Mr Fred Dibnah. One of his regular sayings was "did yer like that?" Fond memories of a very talented man!
When you ladder chimneys for decades without safety gear and are still walking, you carry on doing it that way. I would not say he was superstitious, but he was eminently practical and had a logical method that empirically worked over and over again. If he had put his mind to inventing a giant steam powered cherry picker that functioned to his satisfaction then he would have used that, but he was busy steeplejacking.
He was superstitious....
Fred never lit the fire when he toppled chimneys.... It was normally his wife....
"Steam Powered Cherry Picker" sounds like an avant garde folk metal band, or the name of a company that makes steampunk jewellery.
Absolute legend with balls of steel...
Fred Dibnah was a legend in Britain when i was growing up,my Dad made me aware of him.I"m 52 now so our generation remember him when we were small kids.When Men were men...Great footage.....Balls of steel,without a doubt...
Old Fred had balls of steel, i am a tree surgeon and this scares the bejesus out of me lol
So am I, I e had a few scary trees but he is on another level
It all changed when lawyers realised they could make money sueing for injuries.
I like your perspective on Fred. I agree. Thank you for this. He is amazing!! I love watching him.
The bloke is a British legend! Rip Fred!!
He used to call into the local brewery and they named a beer after him, after he died his last wife told them she wanted money for them continuing to use his name, so they renamed it "Gold digger" 🤣🤣
In the immortal words of the great Fred Dibnah "D'ya like that?". :o)
I think when he mentions drilling a hole, he's referring to what he'd be doing if it were an unclimbed tower. Since this tower has been laddered before, the drilling is replaced with re-opening an old hole with the hammer and chisel.
Fred's a legend. I'm from the same town as him and used to see him on his horse and cart regularly. He was a great character.
That was not for show he did the job. One hell of a self taught man on most things and very clever.
Fred was the real deal.
Fred did it old school...cos it was cheaper lol
I had the pleasure of meeting him once and bought him a pint in my local pub. He was a true gent, the truth was he did a great job, honest workmanship through and through. I’d shit myself doing that job, falling six foot will kill you just a sure as 600, it the attitude that makes it safe..
@@eamonnquinn9585 Half day out with the undertaker! Good old Fred
Fred always did the ladders when working on the chimney’s. The lift was just for the film crew. Fred loved everything about the industrial revelation. His job as a steeplejack was a job started in that period and he used the techniques and tools used for that job.
His own workshop at his house was all steam powered using Victorian machinery. Cannot forget about his beloved steam traction engine
I saw Fred at the Bishops Castle steam fair with his traction engine in about 1976 ish. Heck of a bloke.
@@OriginalgEd when i was younger i watched a few of the Fred documentaries or Tv shows he did in his later life with my grandparents even went to one of the museums he featured with them
You should see the video where Fred was climbing another chimney that had a big overhang, talk about balls of steel. Fred makes me proud to be British.
Fantastic clips from Fred Dibnah's docu-series thank you. Seeing him climbing those chimneys or especially working on the top scaffolding without harnesses etc makes me break out in a sweat!