American who is afraid of heights Reacts to Fred Dibnah Laddering a Chimney Part 1 & 2 

@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

@@TheRealSquirrel Please react to Dave Allen religious jokes and sketches. It isn't offensive just funny. Has 4.8 mill views. It's on DutchPastaGuy channel. It's about 13minutes long. Thanks 😊

❤ 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

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

* 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,

One fake Fred was real

@@user-jp5ru8sl6t Everything about the USA is fake.

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 RU-vid where he shows how it's done

@@danieldunlavey6901 Brilliant, thanks for taking the time to reply!

​@@danieldunlavey6901jag

Fred was a gem I'm so glad I discovered through doing this channel! Thank you for watching.

Incredible man was Fred

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".... 🍻👍

Just watched a video of Fred's funeral and it looked something to behold

The health and safety executive should do an extensively study of Fred and the legacy he's left behind on film. Never mind, all the whoa, omg sod that stuff. Those dopey daft bastards from HSE would instantly ground Fred today if they had half a chance. Yet there's potentially so much they could learn, one or two fundamentals of what safety at work should actually be about ,outside of that monotonous, zero tolerant world of glasses, gloves, mask, hard hat, boots, hi viz , gauntlets, not to mention those cscs or any number of neverending stupid poxy cards we all have to pay for and absolutely must have. You know, I could go on, and on and on and guess what, It's apparently still very dangerous a building site ,who'd a thought that ? RIP Fred.

God bless a good man & all of us 🇬🇧📣✌️🥸

he was a amazing beautiful guy 👍🇬🇧👍⚘

Fred”s chimney demolition with telegraph pole pit props was stunning to behold.

A gr8 line... Classic Fred..

Kids of today would be far better off having a guy like Fred as a role model than any of these modern day footballers or Rap artists. The man was a grafter who always seemed to have black grimy working hands and he’d gladly eat his sandwiches with his hands like that, that’s a proper man, not a namby pamby footballer who gets touched on the pitch and goes down like he’s been shot.

Very true

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

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

And Still is!.

Fred was born and bred in hull then moved to Bolton later on in his life

If given a big 3D printer that could use anything and all the material he needed, I wonder what he would want make?

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.

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 🤣

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

He started a second career out of it, as other traction engine owners would pay him to fix their problems.

I always thought he said he was “bladdered” 😂

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.

We still have Guy Martin

@@chrisdansey2600 don't think guy Martin has any balls to ladder a 200ft chimney

Well, the ladders come down once the mill owner pays!

"You didnt tend to last long if you weren't good at the job" said Fred in that pub interview

Roger it caused me anxiety 🤣

@@TheRealSquirrel your anxiety gave me anxiety 😬

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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!

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.

I’ll have a look at it

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 😴

Just reach the top and "Oh bugger need to go down for a pee"

@@crus1n Or maybe don't bother to go down.

I thought the same.

I wouldn’t even pick up the bloody ladder in the first place ! 😀

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.

Mill's gone, Chimney's gone, and alas, so has Fred. Grew up watching his shows, an absolute legend with balls of steel.

The chimney and mill in this video still exist to this day. The ground floor of the mill has been converted to a shop and cafe

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

I think 1989 was the date of the filming (I lost track of the first broadcasts). But this is a fairly modern chimney.