LEGEND!!! American Construction Worker Reacts "Fred Dibnah - How To Erect A Chimney Scaffold"

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@birch290 Год назад

Fred Dibnah taught Chuck Norris everything he knew

@davechapman5815 Год назад

Fred Dibnah forgot more before his cigarette burned out, than Chuck Norris EVER knew.

@garethlipyeart6520 Год назад

CEPT FRED DIDNT WHERE A HAIRPIECE

@shushup6557 Год назад

😄

@garethlipyeart6520 Год назад

@@shushup6557 men with wigs nothing worse imho,fred wore a flat cap

@Jgf802 Месяц назад

Who the bugger is Chuck Norris ?

@Mark_Bickerton Год назад

In 1979 we only had 3 TV channels, so pretty much EVERYONE in the country saw him and had the same reaction you guys have had. This is how he became a household name. His character and passion for the industrial era is how he became embedded in the British psyche.

@markjones127 Год назад

I remember as kids (I was born in 1970) we'd talk about Fred in the playground like he as some kind of rock and roll star, as you say everyone watched him, a genuine legend.

@hondacrxxx Год назад

Was watching him today on UK tv 🤣 - channel called ‘yesterday’ if you’re interested

@marvinc9994 Год назад

"embedded in the British psyche." And the British psyche is all the richer for it !

@MrROTD Год назад

Late 80s Canada I had only three channels off the air, there was very little to enjoy but the best stuff was from BBC, so sad how they have fallen.

@knalwortel Год назад

I have in 2023 10.000 channels, and there is nothing on TV 🤣 only sports and porn

@waynenaki7796 Месяц назад

What an absolute legend. RIP. Fred.

@thegroovetube3247 Год назад

He's not demolishing it - he's repairing it.

@grantstephens2555 Год назад

He doesn't always fell the chimney. Sometimes it's just repair work. Absolute legend. No way I'd be going up there. My legs go to jelly just watching. Great video.

@martindunstan8043 Год назад

😂😂Me too, getting giddy sat on the sofa😲👍

@chrisparti Год назад

I'm loving the Fred Dibnah reactions guys. You've not seen him drop a chimney yet, I can't wait to see Daniel's face when he see's his technique, no explosives, and he always drops them straight where they need to go... Fred Dibnah doesn't do press ups, he pushes the Earth down... 😅😅

@SingleTrack66 Год назад

This. Well worth a watch if I remember rightly.

@Ozzpot Год назад

I feel the icy hand of death on my shoulder when I'm 15 feet up a tree. It's mind-boggling that Fred, or anyone did this kind of thing. He truly was one of the last and greatest examples of a character now seemingly lost; one of stoicism, valour, work ethic, and humility, with a healthy dose of gallows humour on top. What a legend.

@thomasskinner2259 Год назад

i worked in demolition 4 20 years if u tried doing that today you would get the jail lol

@nigethesassenach3614 Год назад

Well said Tony. He’s a missed man, may he rest in peace.

@richardwaters4795 Год назад

Fred was a legend in England. We won't see the likes of him again.

@PDR-wb9dq Год назад

I am from Greater Manchester in the UK, and there were hundreds of chimneys in the skyline when I was a young boy in the early 70s, now you can count on one hand how many chimneys are left and Fred probably took down most of them, he was a great man and I had the pleasure of meeting him once, hand shake like a vice, cigarette in his mouth and dirty hands, we talked for ages about his Steam Tractor engine, engineering, and cars, and never once was in a hurry to move on and try to get rid of me, I will never forget that day it was a pleasure to meet the man I saw on the telly as I was growing up, he was a true hero of mine and a very brave man, I couldn't have done his job for all the money in the world. A great fella RIP Fred.

@hermes667 3 месяца назад

He took down 90.

@stephenrice4554 Месяц назад

He commanded respect just for being Fred

@Atacama87103 Год назад

Fred was a really intelligent man and that’s probably what kept him safe throughout his working life. I work construction too and some of the people I’ve worked with could have all the safety regulations in the world and still cause an accident. I’ve always said that instead of just having random drugs testing in construction they should have random IQ testing 😅.

@mickpearson6184 Год назад

I've no doubt Fred's IQ would have been very high probably genius level

@simonfisher836 8 месяцев назад

This is true in all walks of life. Scary

@darrenreslis594 Месяц назад

@@mickpearson6184 Without a doubt. The natural mathematical, spatial awareness, mechanical and engineering skills that Fred seems to have been born with and then hugely improved on would pretty much ace him on most IQ, and certainly the Mensa IQ, tests. The man was and is a bona fide legend.

@Charliebhoy79 Год назад

I'm a Steel Erector by trade, loved my job back in the day when you could work on the open steelwork, proper erecting. Cherry pickers and safety overkill ruined the job. I've worked on 4, 5 hundred feet skyscrapers, stadiums, airports, some of the biggest jobs in the UK. There's no feeling like working up there on a nice day. We used to joke that we weren't scared of falling, it was the sudden stop at the bottom that got you lol

@stephenbrough8132 Год назад

Did you not live in fear of a huge gust of wind pushing you off? That's what I can never wrap my head around. You have my admiration too.

@dogdog9857 Год назад

iv been in constuction for 45 years and iv always thought the same heights dont hurt you hitting the ground does ...sometimes iv been sat on a building 4-5 hundred feet up having your break looking out at the view knowing sometimes no one will ever see that again ..building free standing lift shafts you can feel the sway of it the higher you go....stay safe mate

@Charliebhoy79 Год назад

@@stephenbrough8132 No, we only lived in fear of bad crane drivers lol

@theinvisibleneonrainbowzeb2567 Год назад

I always find it so strange in life, how absurd/bizarre/random it all is, like when you have people who fall from insane heights and effectively walk away, yeah maybe some minor cuts and bruises but nothing major, and then you hear about other people who fall off the bottom step, or step off a kerb at a bad angle or whatever and fall, bash their head or neck in the wrong place and they're gone.

@simonatkinson6389 Год назад

I can testify that the sudden stop at the bottom is effective and I only fell 10 feet!!

@davidbirchall832 Год назад

Men like Fred built the World 🌎

@lip-filler-looks-rank Год назад

f*ckers these days dont even know what sex they want to be :-/ dying are the Freds of this world

@jaws6869 Год назад

Correct, but the world seems to think it was Musk and Gates ect.

@darrenreslis594 Месяц назад

Literally. Without real men with real man balls like Fred had, nothing would be more than 3 floors tall.

@pacman4186 Год назад

Fred Dibnah once peeled a onion and legend says the onion is still crying 😭

@martindunstan8043 Год назад

😂😂Love it✌️

@davidfuters7152 Год назад

The planks would fly away in the wind not drop vertically, you would not know where it would land it could be 1/2 mile away I used to be what we call a Site Manager here in the UK ( the on site boss basically ) I was asked by me tower crane driver to go up in the cab with him , that was fun , no lift just a ladder in a round cage 200ft up and his ‘office ‘ didn’t go from left to right it rotates in the wind , it made me feel quite sea sick it was a really weird feeling He told me when he helped build the Severn Bridge ( joins England to Wales ) his cab was so high up if really high winds gusted when the bells in his cab would ring it would sway up to 5 to 10 feet each way a total travel of 10 to 20ft in all directions , sometimes he just had to brace is feet on the metal frame holding the glass to keep himself in his seat Bigger balls than me , bonkers job

@Isleofskye Год назад

Really interesting David. This Men are a special breed..

@tonycasey3183 Год назад

My Dad was a coal miner. A friend of his used to repair and maintain the cages (the lifts/elevators) and the shaft walls. He decided, after many years that he wanted a safer job and applied to work as a steeplejack - I think it was for a firm that erected cranes - and at the interview they asked: "what's the greatest height you have worked at?" He replied: "three thousand feet down a hole!" Some people are just made different. As an aside, my Dad was once knocked over the edge of an open mine shaft by a piece of broken machinery. It broke and cut a hole in his lower leg, but he managed to hold onto a metal bar and avoid falling a quarter of a mile to the bottom of the mine. He was back at work within six weeks whereas I would never have gone back there EVER again.

@markpalmer7215 Год назад

Fred was a very clever man, his documentary series were also excellent. In this video he’s not felling this chimney he is repairing it.

@sapper713 Год назад

Little known fact, Chuck Norris would call Fred for advice 😁

@alansmith1989 Год назад

There is another video where he climbs a truly Colossal Chimney. It is 300 foot plus in height and has two jutting ledges in where Fred has to navigate by ladders and it is truly nerve wrenching. I think its Titled "Fred Dibnah Climbs a Overhang" . So, if you think the chimneys he has climbed in the videos you have watched are something; the Chimney in that video will just amaze you!!

@Heaven-dy9lj Год назад

Yeah that Fred overhang vid is insane. Turns my stomach watching it!

@JM-dm3qk Год назад

It sounds like you are talking about the one he did in Darwen, Lancashire, (NW England), its India Mills and is listed now. It's on the outskirts of Blackburn which neighbours Bolton, where Fred Dibnah was from. We had a lot of cotton mills here in Lancashire so plenty of chimneys for steeplejacks like Fred to work on. Though most of the mills have gone now and there was only ever one Fred Dibnah.

@RobG001 Год назад

That clip is the most terrifying thing I've seen, It is truly jaw dropping, make me feel queasy every time I see it, and to think he does that maybe a few times a day, for months at a time, He really was utterly fearless.

@janicetaylor7516 Год назад

I always think of Fred standing on the highest possible point of a church steeple, no ropes, in a howling gale. He lit a cigarette and said very casually "cigs don't last long up here". 😁

@charlesmarshall8046 Год назад

He wasn’t demolishing this one, he was repairing it. There’s a whole bbc series featuring Fred and his steam engines that you can find on RU-vid, you’d like them. He was one of the last of his kind.

@LottyRayner-Vincent Год назад

My Great-Grandad was a steeplejack. There's a church down the road from me, and he fell off of the roof. He smashed his feet and lower legs and had to wear special reinforced boots with splints for the rest of his life. How he lived amazes me because the church is huge. Watching Fred Dibnah gives me shivers - but I still watch.

@martinotoole4097 Год назад

The man was a prince. How proud you must be of a relative like him. And you have his blood so you must be formidable yourself! Kind regards Martin.

@chelseacharger Год назад

I was a window cleaner who often worked on tower blocks. I was always okay with heights from a young age. You trust your equipment and judgement. As Fred says, it was wind that would cause some nerves and particularly when it was gusty. But as Daniel notes, we often are in awe of Fred's work ethic and calmness in hazardous situations but this guy was quite clearly also immensely strong. He'd have to be, just to extend those lengths of timber and steel rods across those gaps without having his feet planted and dealing with wind too !! Not all heroes wear capes. They can wear caps too.

@adrianchell Год назад

The most impressive thing about Fred Dibnah isn't his ability to repeatedly climb 200ft vertical ladders, while smoking and after several beers, it's the fact that he also had to carry up the additional weight of his gigantic pair of brass balls.

@simonatkinson6389 Год назад

This Man is way beyond a Legend!! He's basically sitting on a 2 foot length of an 18 inch wide plank, suspended on a length of rope HUNDREDS of feet off the ground!!! He'll be casually swinging around with a cigarette in the corner of his mouth humming a tune to himself as he does it!!

@andyward8336 Год назад

If I remember right he was doing repairs on that chimney. Many years ago I was fortunate enough to meet him at the mill my uncle worked at , he was doing repairs on that chimney as well . This was in the early 70s before he was on TV, my uncle needed to go into work for an hour on a Saturday so he took me . He was just on his way down the chimney when we arrived so my uncle introduced me to him .

@sandwormgod4771 Год назад

I was at a function where there was a guest speaker. Looking at the top table nobody could see a familiar face. Come the time, up stood Fred, as soon as he opened his mouth and said his first world the room erupted with cheers and applause. Ans what a speech. Anecdotal but funny and informative. What a man he was.

@angelawalker8615 Год назад

He was one of a kind,he was a millionaire but he acted the same ,he received an MBE in the New years honours list. Nothing fazed this man you got what you saw.

@DruncanUK Год назад

I used to use a bosun's chair when working on the North Sea oil rigs. It's amazing how quickly you get used to it - it's either trust your equipment or give up and go home!

@elliotwilliams7421 Год назад

When Fred passed his family opened his house and yard up. You could go stay in his house and wander round his yard. Missus old man loved him(old school farmer) so she bought him a weekend at Fred's house

@blazingsaddle166 Год назад

Fred Dibnah has legendary status here in the UK. He was a fearless steeplejack with steel balls the size of the Titanic. He had massive knowledge of steam engines and victorian engineering, hosting his own show on the BBC about the industrial revolution. Old school as they come. I doubt we will ever see his like again.

@bryanv1681 Год назад

Don't forget. That bosun chair (the plank) he's sitting on, was also a common piece of equipment used when carving out Mount Rushmore.

@MarkMagwyr Год назад

I think Fred was installing this scaffold to enable him carrying out repairs / repointing to the brickwork. This wasn’t to demolish it. Worth checking out one of his demolition vids where he fells it by burning his temporary timber supports. It’s crazy but it worked

@Leehuss5582 2 месяца назад

As a kid I would watch my man Fred taking down these massively high chimneys on his own. In the UK he is seen as a LEGEND...

@flashgordon1262 Год назад

Britisher here ,we all loved fred back in the day ,turned at at my village one year on carnival day on a steam engine..legend!

@garethbattersby Год назад

Fred Dibnah was not only a legend around where he lived in the North West of England, you would see him in his steam engine quite regularly, you would wave like it was your uncle Fred and he always spoke to you and responded like he'd known you for years. This respect for Fred spread across all social classes and jobs. There was a full series where he goes to other historical places giving the viewers history and engineering lessons. One stand out episode was Fred in London at this new major bank company HQ, he appreciated the modern engineering overcoming problems etc but there was one room in this modern building where they moved a whole 18th century room and put it inside this modern building and there was this banking executive in his expensive suit showing friend around with Fred wearing his usual get up... but you could tell there was respect for his knowledge despite the completely different backgrounds

@lloydcollins6337 Год назад

I think that was Lloyd's of London - the insurance market. They moved their committee room into their new buildings in the late 80s/earpy 90s.

@Smithjones12 Год назад

His programmes are still repeated on TV now

@harropharry Год назад

Fred's philosophy was that if you fall more than 40 feet all you will get is a half day out with the undertaker.

@zee2012 Год назад

Remember it's not the falling off that kills you it's the sudden stop at the bottom that does.😂

@rogerdarbyshire5664 Год назад

When I was a child, my bedroom window looked out over Bolton, Leigh, and North west Manchester. It was a forest of mill chimneys, and over time, their numbers grew fewer and fewer. I was back there a month ago, and only a handful remain. Fred took down quite a few of them. I never met him, but I heard from others that his handshake and grip strength were incredible- no surprises there then. A lot of these chimneys were demolished brick by brick, because the mill buildings below them were still in use, or were repurposed. Also, a lot of housing was very close to the mills- the old workers cottages. The whole mill culture had it's own quirks. My mother remebers being astounded when she came to that area as to how many people could lip-read- the only way to converse among the deafening mill machinery.

@primalengland Год назад

I’m 68 and from Leigh. We used to go to watch Fred drop the local chimneys. He had an actual pit head gear and mineshaft in his back garden in Bolton. What a guy. He also used to hold all the traffic up with his steam engine.

@justluke9166 Год назад

The lip-reading thing is where the Lancashire accent came from as the vowels are extended when you try to mouth something over loud noise.

@sukottora Год назад

@@justluke9166 Wow! Really? What an amazing fact.

@Greenwood4727 Год назад

@@sukottora Plus also the "sign" language for a cup of tea , and others we still use today. the noise made it so hard so speak you had to

@TheMcdonnell123 Год назад

" I don't know what's keeping him from sliding off " A PRAYER 😅😂😂👍

@Korrihor Год назад

As several other people have said, this is a repair job, not a demolition. To give you an idea of Fred's skillset, once he has that scaffolding built, he is going to start the real job where he becomes a bricklayer/Stonemason and repairs the aging brickwork, replacing and reseating loose bricks. Or maybe a blacksmith, fitting and fastening iron retention bands around the brickwork, or installing or repairing lightning rods to ground the chimney against lightning strikes. Everything you have seen him do is the pipework just to do the job. He doesn't build it and then let the other tradesmen come up and do the work while standing on his scaffolding, he'll now do all that work himself. If you've ever heard the phrase "building castles in the sky" as an idiom for doing the impossible? That was Fred's job description, literally.

@trainwatcherwoowoo2391 Год назад

Many years ago when he attended a steam rally in my local area that I was helping out at I actually got the privilege of having a couple of beers with him, the rally was over a weekend and on the Saturday evening after the public had gone home he was wandering around the staff camps and socialising with us and he way he was in real life was no different to how he was on TV, with Fred what you see is what you get and no letting his celebrity status go to his head, he was a great guy who is sadly missed by all who knew him

@1998TDM Год назад

It's his strength that amazes me. Someone should add an old school scaffold build to one of those bizarre gladiator shows. I would love to see some cut gym bunnies wrestling 16ft planks 20ft in the air. With a dirty great big fan blowing to make it even more interesting. The Dibnah Olympics?

@regfenster Год назад

They cannot do it, I'm a scaffolder and I've witnessed many gym bunnies with their bulging muscles crying due to lactic acid build up trying to pump up a 21ft steel tubes, usually after two with no more than an 8ft pump up they're finished. Fred's core strength was off the scales this is a seriously strong man guiding those 16/18ft boards across a 14ft span is no easy feet.

@corringhamdepot4434 Год назад

The British Pathé RU-vid channel has some interesting old black and white cinema newsreel films about steeplejacks. From back when they would have 4 or 5 men swarming all over the same chimney at the same time.

@michaelpatton7478 2 месяца назад

This man had it all and was the No1 in his steeplejack field. His expertise in engineering crafts was awesome, his technical drawings and knowledge of architecture was second to none......There'll never be another

@Toukoi Год назад

When you work heights you slowly gain confidenence in your ability to cope with what others would call madness. But this stuff still blows my mind, I would never be able to do that and feel confident, Fred is a legend.

@bobbymimms Год назад

The greatest thrill.from here in Scotland. is watching Spencer flashing the side eyes at Daniel every time our Fred does something wild. Every 23 seconds or so! 😂😂

@Stevensteven1098 Год назад

Fred did two years army service, He was in the cookhouse, From Cooking, To Steeplejack!

@markrichardson3421 Год назад

I think maybe this was a repair rather than a demolition like the other videos. In the video laddering a chimney wasn't he talking about doing a quote for repair work?

@jacquilewis8203 Год назад

I've vertigo just watching him. The clanging of his brass balls must have been heard for miles! Amazing 👏

@gwalia2112 Год назад

He didn't just go up to bring them down, he went up to inspect and repair. His traction engines were amazing, well not just his, they all are.

@jackdeith5097 Год назад

Dibnah the man himself every scaffolder and steeplejack in the country knows freddie hes like a folk hero among acess stage and rigging people across the board

@darrenreslis594 Месяц назад

He's a hero to all 'dirty hands' engineers mate, the two engineers names you hear all the time on site are Heath Robinson for someone that has made something that looks a bit shoddy but 100% works and Fred Dibnah for anyone that has managed to get to what appears to be an impossibly dangerous place with absolute ease without breaking a sweat, I've heard 16 year old apprentices that were born years after he died say "He was up that like Fred Dibnah".

@tonysparks2392 Год назад

Do the climbing a overhang. Talk about vertigo 😱

@59jalex Год назад

I've said it before. But Fred had a fantastic talent for drawing. His freehand drawing of straight lines is a thing to behold.

@WelshTiger1980 Год назад

Can you imagine the grip strength of this man, He could cruch coal into a diamond 👊💪

@mhunter8211 Год назад

Fred was a legend, Working in a style that the Victorians used. Big respect to Fred.

@nicklovell5872 Месяц назад

I love how you guys have taken Fred Dibnah to your hearts and to an audience that might never have heard of him! He had this effect on everyone. He was a pure, 100% legend.

@garethlipyeart6520 Год назад

he was a true english legend,no fear rip fred xx

@LordEriolTolkien Год назад

'' Half a day out wi'th undertaker.'' Is a typically understated British way of referring to Death

@charlesatkinson9184 Год назад

Another brilliant reaction lads. Fred was a man born out of his time. His love of 19th century engineering and construction is legendary. Before he died he drove his steam traction engine, with period correct caravan all around Britain. Culminating at Buckingham Palace to collect an award from the Queen. You need to see fred bring down a chimney, lumberjack style.

@aallan646 Год назад

He was one strong man , the upper body strength to guide those boards , he repaired chimneys aswell not all were demolished, at that time. More than likely a repair job.

@comedywriter8408 Год назад

First of all, I loved your commentary. It's amazing, that years after Fred's passing, new generations from all over the world have the pleasure of watching what this man did to make a living. It was a compelling watch, back then when I first saw him in the 70's, and it's still as compelling today. He is an absolute legend, and I'm sure that sentiment is shared by all of us. I am just completely humbled and overwhelmed by what he did. Fred was a humble man, and therein lies his greatness (apart from his incredible bravery and skill).

@stobe187 Год назад

the upper-body strength this man had is wild, guiding long steel rods one handed while constantly swinging that massive hammer etc...

@IanDarley Год назад

Rumour has it that when he met Chuck Norris, Chuck's beard retracted back in to his chin to hide 😛Edit: Doh! You did the Chuck Norris joke at the end.

@ellesee7079 Год назад

Watching Fred trying to thread that steel rod, I couldn't help thinking he would be excellent at jousting! 🤔😆

@AllyB824 Год назад

You need to find footage of him bringing down a big chimney in one go. Incredible skill and no explosives used at all. He was some man.

@DM-dg3oi Год назад

I never forget my first time working on rope cradles in the early 80s, and till this day you will never forget that experience of lowering yourself down from the roof with no safty harness into the narrow cradle, when you pull yourself up you basically have your life in your hands.

@djdeemz7651 Год назад

Reading that made my hands feel funny 🤣

@James-wp3jq Год назад

He's not demolishing it he's repairing it

@andrewmogg591 Год назад

I was always impressed by Fred's beautiful artwork and clear narration, a testament to his time at Art College.

@jen6879 Год назад

I got his autograph when I met him & his handwriting is beautiful too.

@cathyb46 Год назад

Each town in Lancashire had many mills. A miserable life for most who worked in them. Alot of weavers in Lancashire supported the North ie Lincoln against the South by not using their cotton and refused to work on it.(Lancashire cotton famine) The very mills prob shown may have been affected. Lincoln sent a thankyou letter and there is a statue of him in Manchester. There are many old Lancashire songs of that time and the starvation.

@adsyoffinch Год назад

If you ever needed a visual representation of anxiety, it’s Daniel watching Fred Dibnah 😂

@SlurpyDave254 Год назад

Great vid lads, I met him in the 80's at a Steam convention. Absolutely legend. His son Jack now lives where I live on the Isle of Man. Just like his dad he repairs steam engines, bridges anything that no one else can, cheers lads

@russcheetham4046 Год назад

The man's a legend Fred Dibnah many a series on TV for 40 years going around the country showing all old buildings, engineering, coal pits,the man new everything 👏

@duffymoony 9 месяцев назад

I am so glad they captured Fred and his steeplejack life when they did. Back in the day, it seemed like he was from a long bygone era, the end of the Victorian age. The 70s and 80s are now long gone too. He will live forever more when generations to come stumble across these programmes. Balls as big as space hoppers.

@FlissFloss2906 Год назад

They didn’t just demolish it because he was repairing it. No point erecting a load of scaffolding on the outside it he has to take it down from the top as he’s not at the top of this chimney! I love you for finding Fred Dibnah. Xx

@pianoboylaker6560 Год назад

If you are lucky enough to see one of his videos when he is talking about his engines and bridges, he has a scematic drawing (that he drew) in front of him, you will see some of his handwriting at the top. It is perfect penmanship writing in copperplate style and is absolutely beautiful to see. I watched that video when I was a young man and seeing that handwriting by Fred encouraged me to learn caligraphy myself and now I pen Marriage and Christening invitations for other people. Fred gave me a craft I would never have thought I could do but it has stayed with me for over 50 years. I now teach it to my grandchildren who are in awe of it. Thanks Fred for everything. I'll buy you a pint when I get up there.

@normanmart7933 Год назад

Fred always wears full safety gear ie his flat cap, so no worries.

@johnlewis9158 Год назад

Mr Dibnah's age makes this even more impressive. He was indeed my no means a young man here and yet he got the job done almost effortlessly

@hixyhicks Год назад

Being a hard man doesnt mean you can have a row,being a hardman in the dictionary just says Fred Dibnah .R i p Fred .

@davidscott9214 Год назад

i had rhe privilege of seeng all the fred dibnan programes when they were originally shown in the 1970 s ! they are just as interesting and fear inducing today as they were then . the man is a legend !!!

@Stu-my1zo Месяц назад

I actually watched Fred demolish a Chimney in Leigh Lancashire back in 1982. I was 14. An amazing moment as he pumped his warning horn and then the whole chimney came down in a moment of spectacle and dust, and then cheering. He looked very relieved it had gone well.

@GrimlarLex Год назад

I know the bosuns chair looks scary, but dont forget it had been in use by navies for ship maintenance and cleaning for centuries, ie sailing ships, hence the name.

@TheWoollyBack67 7 месяцев назад

Every time Spencer says ''not for me dawg'' makes me chuckle

@barrywhite9768 Год назад

Fred Dibnah keeps Chuck Norris awake at night

@XENONEOMORPH1979 Год назад

i have watched american actions on this guy and to be honest every time i watch fred doing what he does i still go giddy in the head ,the reason why i watch the man is because there is no other on this earth with his experience who could do what this man has done for most of his life and the details he easily explains that you can fathom and understand still blows my mind.

@stephenmorrow3490 Год назад

Lol. That head shake at 2 minutes 12 seconds just sums this up. Very brave man.

@Grimlock1975 Год назад

I can imagine the boys breaking into a sweat looking at the stairs in their homes after watching this lol

@Pi_r8 Год назад

I heard that a factory exec once asked the guy at the bottom, if Fred had ever fallen off 😳 Doh!. He replied, just the once but I caught him.

@toptechsys Год назад

ha ha ha! always great to see your reaction to our dear Fred! ;) he's a real national treasure to us here in the u. k. I call him the last victorian! he represents the brilliance,toughness,tenacity and pure genius that enabled the u. k. to kickstart the industrial revolution itself! God bless our Fred ❤

@electronash Год назад

I used to watch Fred Dibnah's series a lot with my Dad in the 80s/90s. I'd never seen anything quite like it back then. This was way before Parkour videos and RU-vid. lol Another great series was "The Secret Life Of Machines", but that's a lot nerdier, obviously.

@Twirlyhead Год назад

Isaak Newton, the inventor of gravity, has a lot to answer for. Else we could all do this. Fred says "Isaak Newton. You don't scare me". Chuck Norris looks on in admiration.

@tago69mago671 2 месяца назад

Guy was one in a million with balls of steel and an undying faith in his ability and equipment!

@ezza2x899 Год назад

Balls of steel but he had complete confidence in his abilities and level of work. National treasure here in the U.K. is Fred, never be another like him. Just watch the video of when Bolton came to a stand still for his funeral.

@FrowningIke 2 месяца назад

"Chuck Norris checks his closet for Fred Dibnah"!!!! 😂😂😂 Bravo! I now need to clean up all of this spat out beer !

@nrw34260 Год назад

Love your appreciation of a British legend.

@chrisellis3797 Год назад

Daniels face every time it pans out to Fred free climbing a vertical ladder🤣🤣 sheer horror

@mg-roveradverts 10 месяцев назад

He is a Lancashire legend which I am glad is now global! If you search google there is a statue of Fred in his home town of Bolton, Lancashire. What a fearless man he was. And remember this chimney he was repairing not demolishing.

@georgehaha6969 Год назад

I remember watching Fred when I was wee, what a hero. If I remember right, he wasn't demolishing this chimney, he was setting the scaffold to do a repair to the top. This is the guy who revived the British passion for steam power. I don't think he was fearless, he trusted himself and his tools. That is all any trades-person needs... and the skills of a master too. Fred was THE master steeplejack.

@arkroyalrifemoonbasealpha6101 Год назад

A mate of mine met him once at a steam rally he said he was absolutely no different to the Fred Dibnah steeplejack i think he even had a pint with him mind given Fred`s unquenchable thirst i bet there are many thousands telling the same tale RIP Fred

@martingibbs1179 Год назад

Have you seen the images of the construction of old skyscrapers in New York; the men who built them had a lot in common with Fred. Or even old school sailors, have you seen the history hit videos of climbing the rigging of an old naval warship. Imagine doing that job in the middle of the Atlantic during a storm without any kind of safety strap.

@valeriedonaghy701 Год назад

I remember him driving through my town on his steam engine on his way to a local steam rally, he was such a friendly man, always had time to talk to you and let the kids go on his steam engine, he was a local legend, everyone knew who Fred Dibnah was, thanks for doing these reactions, love Daniel's face growing paler, you can see the fear lol. Fred was a different breed