Famous last words Scoutcrafter: "I'm not a collector" -- Proceeds to show and discuss awesome bayonet collection. That view from the attic sure was cool--thanks for sharing that.
There used to be a whole plethora of fellas like Fred about, in England or for that matter America. Times have changed and I'm not sure if for the better. We were self sufficient, brave and inventive. Happier times!
John, tell your old buddy happy birthday for me - an old boy scout the same age as you two. I loved scouts, and was lucky to be part of a troop that had excellent and dedicated leaders. Half had done service in WW II, and the other half in Korea. Farmers, ranchers, a builder, a doctor and a lawyer. Among other things, I learned so much about hiking, climbing, camping, and field survival that even now my knowledge and experience outstrips the “experts” in outdoor stores and most pro outfitters I meet. I volunteered heavily while my son went through scouting, and when he has kids I hope he does. Great memories!
Love the bayonet collection. I am 68 and have collected knives all my life. My ex missus used to ask "How many knives does one man need?". My answer was always the same "Just one more."
Nice shout out to Fred - he is from my home town back in the UK, and was a 'star' well before the BBC series in those parts. Often used to see him driving around in his landrover or in his steam roller 'Betsy' at local events. Never got to see him fell a chimney, though my dad saw several. Absolutely fearless and quite the character!
I've watched many hours of Fred Dibna. What a fearless and hard working man. In my working days I did a lot of ladder climbing and scaffold work, but was always amazed and nervous to watch him man-handling those planks way up near heaven, BY HIMSELF! He was definitely a man's man. All the aerial acrobatics he did and never fell, but was instead taken out by cancer. He used to talk about the wind when he was up there, and jokingly say, "one wrong step and it'll be half a day with the undertaker"! Well, he cheated the undertaker for all those years. Rest in peace sir.
I have watched most if not all the Fred Dibnah videos. That is a job I could never do. Those early videos with him tying and attaching the ladders as he went up are incredible.
Dibnah was great, I'll probably never tire of watching him ladder a chimney 😅 Incidentally, they were called steeplejacks because originally they were employed to climb up to the top of the spires on churches and cathedrals to fix the rooves and weather vanes - the industrial stuff came much later. As for bayonets not being sharp, I've a couple of old Lee Enfield bayonets and an even older Chassepot one and they are pretty sharp (but then, they were my grandfather's war souvenirs so I've no doubt that they got used for what they wer e designed for) The box turned out great, best idea for a gift 😊
Yes- Almost all soldiers put an edge on their bayonets- There was lots of time to kill between skirmishes so sharpening a bayonet was the perfect way to kill time. 😃👍
Great Video 👍 That Fred Dibnah was a awesome dude! Thanks for sharing his story. Great information on bayonets and thanks for showing your collection in the attic or sky parlor. You have a awesome view of your neighborhood 🏘 from the window 🪟 in your attic, thanks for letting us see the view. I like the Watchman you have in the attic ,but he seems a little bony 😂😂 💀 👍.The box you made for that bayonet turned out fantastic👍👍. What a fantastic gift 🎁 to give your friend Jerry . I think that is a perfect display box. Another great shot of Old Glory 🇺🇸 flying in that beautiful night breeze. Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on Wednesday. Have a great evening. 😃👍👍
Fred was an incredible worker. In the north country the older ones remember this is time when the Edmond Fitzgerald went down 48 years ago. Don't let young person tell 60 is old, at least none of us past that think so. Our joints and scars might try to say different but we don't listen. I have the folding machete. It's heavy. I have a partialy refabbed WW1 British bayonet around here that was being made into a dagger but I never finished it. I reworked an old beat up Mark II into a all around sheath knife. I would pass up all the rest I have and take it with me in a disaster. I have to becareful as some states are not happy about the upper sharpened tip.
@@ScoutCrafter It is quite sturdy and heavy like the Woodsman'd Pal. I would take the Pal first. The Folding machete is in this WW2 AAF training film. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hz8GO9AHTz0.htmlsi=yq4-RoXqSH14UC6u
Love the shout out to Fred Dibnah! I love to watch him climb those chimneys and church steeples. How anyone could put so much trust in those wooden ladders, planking, and ropes is beyond me because I don't even trust a new ladder. I especially liked to watch him work in his shop behind his home where he was sinking the mine shaft and working with his steam engines. Very interesting and intelligent fellow. You're one cool dude to get a nice bayonet like that and then build a very nice display box for your friend! I got one for my M1 Carbine a few years ago for I think 10 bucks at the flea market. Also got one for an M1 Garand kicking around somewhere. Also have various knives that I have both made and bought over the years, but my favorite that I have is probably the Camillus USMC fighting knife with the leather stacked handle, complete with original leather sheath. I like to Blacksmith now and then so making knives was only a natural thing to do. Great video as always Scout!
my stomache turned when i saw fred build and climb these laders and i sh*tted my pants twice when i saw him passing the overhang. fred dibnah is the most amazing guy i ever come across greetings
Great Bayonet collection John. Thanks for the history on them. Box turned out great. Thanks for the tour of the attic. Could be a museum in the future. 😎
YAAY Jerry and Fred was 3 or 4 pieces of work. I think of some of the U.S. daredevils but Fred did stuff that'd make the so-called tough guys pee their pants every day! And the rebuild a steam roller and pulling his camper, drive it to a meet-up for steam machines. Amazing man. Happy week John and God Bless
Thank you for introducing me to Fred Dibnah. I am looking forward to viewing his experiences. I enjoy seeing the "old school" way of doing things, so I am sure it will great to watch. Love the knife display box!
I watched my first Fred Dibnah... Fantastic! He had a great personality: loved wthe way the youth connected with him. Again, thanks for turning me onto him.
I spent considerable time watching Fred going through his job and his hobbies. Quite the guy. I'm not afraid of heights. Those lashed together ladders and stubbed in board platforms are a bit more than I would like. Takes me back to the days of working on the 80 foot Cupola stack at the foundry. Changing water lines in the winter wasn't fun. The steam lorry was fascinating. Jerry is a lucky man to have friends like you. I had a bayonet from the Spanish just before WWII. I picked it up at the Army Navy store in Three Rivers, MI in about 1973. When I built the Harley Trike into a chopper I used the bayonet as the shifter handle. I made a couple mounts on the shifter so the blade edge faced the seat post. When I sold the trike I kept the bayonet. It disappeared along with a couple other knives and various bric a brac about the time we had a garage sale. We had a discussion about yours, mine, and ours. 👺😎
Fred ran his home workshop using steam and Victorian engineering, He was a fountain of knowledge. Years ago i was driving through a little village called Holmefith and outside a pub was a steam engine and Fred was there having a pint and a chat to folk. Much missed. One of his Jobs he took on was to demolish a chimney brick by brick.Stood on top of a chimney swinging a sledge hammer with no safety harness hahaha
Hear, hear! I think I've mentioned this before, but my late grandfather was a big fan of Mr Dibnah because he was from the same part of the country. Now I can't think of him without thinking of my grandad. "Did you like that?" Yes Fred, I did!
I'm from the UK and I love your channel - you're such a knowledgeable guy and very wholesome. I think it's so cool that you know about working class heroes like Fred Dibnah, I feel the same way about the US steel/ironworkers and the men who built the skyscrapers in the early 20th century and the NYFD/NYPD were the best in the world. I'm rambling but you have a great community ScoutCrafter and I do wish I had a teacher like you growing up.☺
Fred was amazing. When he said "these towers were built with steam" it changed the way i understood these amazing manmade structures. It is hard to articulate, but the moment he said that i immediatly understood his love of chimneys and steam engines. What a guy. Great gift, the box is first class. Cheers
Fred Dinah was a great Character, I grew up watching him demolishing things but he was equally (if not more) interested in preserving the past ! As you say there's load of great material out there about him. Interesting overview of your non-collection of bayonets, I have a British WWI version in the garage kept out of reach of my younger visitors. I remember a friend of mine bringing his Grandfather's bayonet in to school when we were learning about the war aged 9, and he took great pleasure in explaining that the scoop in the blade was to let the blood flow so you could more easily remove the blade !
Fred Dibnah, I will be checking this gentleman out for sure. Nice job on the selection of the bayonet and the presentation box, thanks for the video sir, enjoyed .
Great box and a lovely gift! I really enjoy going in the attic. I had one of the Delta saws but I passed it on when I bought the compound miter saw recently. Very handy tools!
What a coincidence (yet again) .... I've been tasked with making a box for a WWII German Wehrmacht dagger that my son-in-law inherited. So often you come up with the darndest things, and so timely ! .... It's weird ! ..... Thanks tons for a couple great box-making tips and ideas.
I remember barrels of bayonets of all types at the Surplus Store in the early 60’s. So many to choose from often for .50c and at the time it wasn’t important where it came from. You made the display box look way to easy, and the salvaged plexiglass comes in handy. Great job! (catching up on last weeks videos after a week of travel)
I watched every piece of footage I could find featuring Frank a few years ago, there were two or three other notorious steeple jacks around the same time but I can’t think of their names. I’m just enamored with that time period in the U.K.
Fred had another method, he’d bore the hole at the bottom and start demo at the top, sending the bricks down though the center of the stack so the so they could be wheel barreled away. No fire or dynamite.
I just watched a video of Fred on FB. It was made by the BBC in 1970 and it was his first documentary. Or so it was claimed in the title. I have known about him for years but what a coincidence to watch it just before I watched your video.
Amazing show! Brought back an AK bayonet from Iraq with a war souvenir chit. I was in Habbaniya and they were cleaning out a warehouse full of aircraft parts and they tossed out all these MIG and Sukhoi gages. They denied those chits though. We had a guy who would sharpen blades and he put a razor edge on my AK blade.
Great video ScoutCrafter. Loved all the bayonets. I’m always expecting to see a UFO in the final view of your video of the sky, but this time was at night, well maybe next time. That box turned out great.👍🏻👍🏻 20:06
Brilliant episode and thank you for the shout out for Fred Dibnah, you share the same DNA with him !.It used to be a joke in the Army that on enlistment all personal knives would be confiscated but you were then issued with a bayonet 😀.
Amazing attic! I could spend days up there. Reminds me of my grandparent's attic that had so many treasures in it. Love the box. I have a handyman business and business is crazy slow now because people are waiting for their tax returns and laying low after the holidays. Maybe I'll try making some boxes and selling them online!
Bayonets- it always amazed me that the Russians - NOT the Japanese, Germans, Italians or English or Americans- but the Russians, would design a bayonet multi-tool. I know the Swiss and later, Germans, offered a sawtooth back on some of theirs, and eventually, we in the US copied the wire cutter feature.
Grew up watching Fred ! Amazing fella . Gosh 20 years ago , he used to say one particular word really strangely , I’ll have to watch again to see what it was , great memories , thanks scout
Great gift and very nice box! I like the way you did the access to it and really like wood look of the sleeve never seen one like that before... great attic visit as well! 👍
You are not a collector of any ONE THING. You are a collector ot EVERYTHING! 👍😀😁. If you were in the UK, you would definitely be considered a hoarder! 😂😂😂
That scabbard (hard = scabbard / leather = sheath) is a M8-A1 due to the steel hanger hooks that attached it to a utility belt. The original M8 only had a web belt loop.
I have that same Swiss bayonet next to my bed. Mine came off a 1957 vintage Swiss rifle, but I don't remember the model. Also next to me is a reproduction USMC Ka Bar style knife made by Camillus. Also I have a lock box with a --------------------------------------
I've watched docs about Dibnah. Quite the guy. Steam is still king, if you ask me. I have one engine that is going to power the blacksmith shop, and need to go pick up a traction engine here before winter arrives.
I cant believe the timing with this! I just yesterday bought a ww2 German dress bayonet by accident on ebay. I was forced to pay $750! yup, dumb move clicking by accident. I wanted it but not for that much. Anyway great collection. love to see your knife collection!
Oh WOW yeah!! At 3:55 at the beginning of the attic tour, there's a Swiss volcano stove cook kit on the shelf!! I have one and love it!! Metal bottle, twig burner or alcohol burner stove with a nesting cup. They used to be fairly common on the milsurp market, but the supply has pretty much dried up. I love mine, I gifted my spare to a friend. That would be a fun cleanup and use video! Got any other old stoves? Us old Scouters seem to gravitate to those kinds of things :) I have a good collection myself!
How is it I've been watching your videos for months and I've never seen the attic? I must have been hiding under a rock or something. Thanks for this great video. I hope you're over your cold by now.
Hi scout love anything to do with knives I think I might have one of those but mine has a green scabbard will have to check to see what year it is great video god bless take care 🇳🇿🇺🇸🗽🪖🦅45
Hola, linda colección, hay una en particular que tiene la forma de los dedos en el mango, no la mostraste. Además tiene un protector para que la mano no se pase para la hoja, cuando ésta apuñala. Está detrás, a la izquierda del cuchillo de servicio (creo que de la navy) al principio del vídeo. Podrías decirme de cuál arma es, o que modelo. Gracias
Hello John, Fred Dibnah is a legend on the European side of the pound. Fear of heights was not in his book. I've been following you for years but I noticed it for the first time.Do you Cut on the table saw on the left side of the fencing. Or have I seen this wrong? Keep up the show, I'll continue to watch faithfully. A father of a scout
My model table saw has a larger cut on the right side of the blade so that is where the fence spends most of it’s life. I can cut on either side but usually leave the fence on the right of the blade. Goofy style. 😂👍
