American Reacts to Fred Dibnah - British Steeplejack Takes Down a MASSIVE Chimney

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[@BerlietGBC]

Fred is a legend here in the UK , I followed him since the first 40 minutes program in the late 70’s, look for Fred Dibnah flying buckets to

[@mrorinocobottle9371]

Reaction videos to Fred really warm my heart and this one was no exception. Twenty years after his death people of all nationalities, races and cultures still admire him, thanks to tv programmes and KZbin. Peace to all.

[@Alan.Moffat]

Hardy old English man....... respect. From Scotland

[@CEP73]

They don't make 'em like they used to!! A real brave, patient, craftsman.

[@stevemorris6855]

Everything old Fred did with ladders, planks and chimneys scared the crap out of me. Legend.🇬🇧

[@tonyorome]

Me too

[@srowanmp59]

Born before his time..RIP Fred you Legend 🙏🏻

[@anthonytaylor7590]

Balls of steel lad balls of steel

[@annalieff-saxby568]

A British National Treasure, and a man with nerves of steel.

[@Andyb2379]

Had the honour of meeting him one in 1995. He was a remarkable man, genius in fact. To this day he is very sorely missed. He was a great ambassador to our industrial heritage. You’re not likely to come across a man that grafted as hard as he did.

[@annemariefleming]

Fred had to do it that way because blowing it up would cause damage to surrounding buildings. He used to assemble and attacht the ladder system to the chimney and set up his own scaffolding at the top, then move it down stage by stage as he removes them. £7000 was quite a reasonable price 50 years ago. Fred was a "national treasure". He was also into traction steam engines, and a lot of other specialisms.

[@TheVanillatech]

My Dad paid roughly £7k for the house we grew up in, a 3 bedroom terraced place in Yorkshire with a huge garden, around the same era (late 70's). Not a bad chunk of money, but what a dangerous job!

[@raymondfarrimond2010]

I had the pleasure to meet Fred once I used to be a taxi driver on the rank at Kay gardens in Bury. Fred was driving a traction engine and stopped across from the rank and a few of us went and had a chat with him. A great man.

[@garibaldi54]

£7000 in 1979 is the equivalent of £29,130 in 2023. Must have taken him the best part of the year to do it too.

[@Finny14754]

I’m British 🇬🇧 and Fred was a national treasure to us 🙏❤️. It was a sad day in England when we lost him . There will never be another one like him .

[@jannejoensuu896]

Wey aye man . 🧱

[@martinbobfrank]

You have hit gold with Fred. As stated below, he is a national treasure to the British; god rest his soul. And, no, he didn't die from an industrial accident. A true British hero to the working-class.

[@daviddogsbody]

Fred. A legend. Falls off a pair of steps in his daughters bedroom and hits his head on a drilling machine. The question is what is an industrial drilling machine doing in his daughters bedroom.

[@stevewest4994]

He must have been a bit of a nightmare to live with. I can imagine there were all sorts of engineering tools around the house. There was a TV episode where he took his family for a seaside holiday and seemed to spend about 5 minutes with them on the beach, then wandered off and found someone who needed a chimney taking down!

[@melaniejones7335]

😂

[@maxpowerii7368]

😂 of course what 10 year old girl doesn’t want a pillar drill in her bedroom…

[@user-zk8px7xt7t]

Fred has unbelievable nerve and muscle endurance, what a guy.

[@AlanCanon2222]

I've climbed and rappelled 100+ foot shafts deep underground in Mammoth Cave, and felt pretty safe doing it, and I can't watch Fred Dibnah without my feet breaking out in a sweat.

[@lestorhaslam]

Have a look at Fred Dibnah putting the ladder and scaffolding on a chimney single handed, that’s even more amazing.

[@Michel-7.7.7]

The most astonishing fact is, he build the ladders, the platform and mounted it by himself with rooes and pulleys

[@eddyd2647]

Fred is a national treasure

[@Isleofskye]

Good Reaction but you have missed the earlier episodes. Now we all thought THAT was dangerous with no safety, whatsoever. NOW for the REALLY crazy episodes. lol In the first episode he "laddered the chimney". and he erected that ladder on the side of the chimney that he climbed up. In The Second episode(ALL on KZbin) you see him create that staging or platform that was already on top here, in THIN AIR, on his own. LOL This is the 3rd Phase and Video 4 is him finishing the job so the others should be watched in order,my friend.

[@ianhampton6856]

Fred was a British legend and loved by everyone, he was so knowledgeable about buildings and ancient techniques. Watch his vids on laddering a chimney, amazing! Plus all his vids re steam engines and historic buildings.

[@NPA1001]

I remember watching Fred as a child with my mum and dad and seeing Fred climbing those chimneys and my Dad turning to my mum and saying.. “If that was my job I’d tell you not to bother getting my dinner ready until you saw me pull up on the driveway”

[@mervinmannas7671]

The whole country fell in love with Fred as he was the sort of hard working, honest, down to earth bloke who could talk and talk anf never get boring. You could have a pint in the pub with and get drunk on the laughter not the beer. He represted a generation that doesnt exist or is at least very rare these days. Now everyone wants to get rich quick or do so with the least amount of effort. Theres a lot to be learned from people like Fred. When the video ended one that was shown there you should watch. It is a man called John Noakes who was a television presenter for a childrens programme called Blue Peter. It was the action man and always got the daring stuff to report on. In that clip he is climbing Nelsons Column in central London to help wash the statue at the top. That is pretty hair raising too.

[@englishpassport6590]

Life was cheap when Fred was a lad the learning curve was steep but still there were many working men making their own way in their working lives just like him. They were in all kinds of trades and occupations but they were very rarely to be found in academia.

[@charliecosta3971]

This was in 1976. £7000 would inflate to £64000 today or $80000. However, it makes me dizzy watching this, and I wouldn't do it for 7 billion loool

[@benmurphy3724]

This is wkd to see! Not even alot of people in UK know who this legend Is, the last of a great generation of English gentlemen 🙏

[@maxpowerii7368]

not true in my experience. Can find eccentric blokes like Fred all over Northern England. BBC just doesn’t make documentaries about them anymore.

[@stephenturner6075]

There's plenty of Fred Dibnah videos on KZbin. Fred did dismantle the chimney by hand. Fred Dibnah is a British legend.

[@zibbezabba2491]

£7000 in the 1980s. That would have been about $12,000. You're spot on. About $50,000 in today's money.

[@officialcammmreacts]

😳🤯 wow!

[@zibbezabba2491]

@@officialcammmreacts I wouldn't do what he does, not even for 10 times that amount 😆

[@TheHarrip]

Oh you're down the Fred rabbit hole. There's a a few videos all more amazing than the last. The one where he drops a chimney with fire is 🔥

[@criticalthinker6076]

No he's not at all he couldn't care less about the subject get a grip he's wasteman with a wasteman channel honestly look at his channel he doesn't answer one comment and copies every video his channel is exactly the same as everyone else's it's laughable it's a joke

[@TheHarrip]

@@criticalthinker6076 okay

[@criticalthinker6076]

@@TheHarrip ye I know because it's a fact

[@Levenstone132]

Great to see you watching the legend Fred. He finished the job with wooden pit props holding it up then set them alight. Clever stuff. "D'ya like that?"

[@criticalthinker6076]

@@haveaniceday7016 he's a pure 🤡 can't him seriously at all

[@helensamuel9913]

MISS FRED LOVED HOW HE KEPT TO HIS ROOTS SO FUNNY AND BRAVE

[@stevencraig1871]

He was a machine!!

[@stevetokeley6542]

He put the ladders and scaffolding up too.

[@peterslim6415]

Let's not forget, that Fred was also a great engineer .

[@stevenknight1198]

Incase you didnt realise, he put all that ladderwork up himself, without any harnesses

[@paulfarrer3628]

He was an amazing guy👍👍

[@davidwalsh6608]

That is an Englishman 20 woodbines and balls of cast Brass

[@outlawking4106]

£7000 in 1979 would be worth £45,500($54,900) in today’s money

[@Mickbono06]

The man was and is a legend, done everything the old proper way. You want to see his other videos on you tube.

[@martincotty]

The same camera man filmed him for years never telling his family what he did for a living for the entire time....nerves of steel....fred top man 💪

[@borntoclimb7116]

As a urban climber, i like those videos. It is Impressive but for a pro climber, climb a ladder is easy.

[@paulallaker8450]

The bricks would have been reclaimed and used again. Fred is a legend. 💪

[@bernardmcmahon351]

Enjoyed your reaction, 👍 Fred was very clever, brave and amazingly lovely

[@bsasteve]

Fred got that chimney down, Fred is a legend here in the UK

[@beatonthedonis]

Dibnah also used to knock chimneys down the Medieval-siege way - knocked some bricks out at the bottom, replaced them with wooden props and then set fire to the props.

[@chrismccartney8668]

A legend so skilled and he took down hundreds of chimneys of which there were many chimneys..

[@clairewilson332]

Loved your reaction to this Fred was a star.

[@steamfandan9682]

They didn't fully record Fred Demolishing the chimney but the series following Fred Dibnahs life but in later years he would go onto presenting documentary's on industrial history before passing away aged 66 Years old

[@duncanhill3953]

He had a enormous pair.

[@funnyfacestudio]

He mentions a young man might not have the patience as you skipped the video.

[@janetburrows137]

As he gets lower. He’s too keep moving his staging down as he goes. Which is a big job on its own. You need too find one were he is putting the staging up. ❤❤

[@janetburrows137]

He’s going too the top . ❤❤

[@069gypsy]

he took the lot down fred was brilliant

[@rosweaver70]

Good on ya for doing this video. I think Fred would have loved people looking at his work decades on. Please check out when he took down a huge chimney by lighting tyres at the base. Such an exciting piece of footage. All the best to you and thanks for your lovely youthful sympatico. Ros x

[@rosweaver70]

@Have a nice day ....and, a few years down the line when he's older, he'll see something that sparks a memory of something he once reviewed (Whether or not it was done for viewing figures) It may enrich his existential view. This, my friend is how we enjoy the collective global communication. Go and smell the flowers please before it's too late.

[@gary71161]

he knocked it all down

[@douglastodd1947]

that staging was 5 layers spaced 5 to 6 feet apart been there 3month already 3ft a day roughly removed already 318ft tall when started 106 days to do probably when he gets lower to ground he might burn it down to save time in a more controllable area height wise might fell it in 50 /60 days or less.

[@liberalmatt]

Shaw, Lancashire.

[@Quato177]

I went to a school called St Joseph's in a little town called Darwen in Lancashire in the late eighties and remember coming out of class one day to watch Fred climb the India mill chimney which towers over anything in Darwen,straight up,no harness,nothing. Don't make folk like that anymore unfortunately.

[@davelocock]

Turn your volume up for yourself, missing the reaction in the mix. Fred' was a complete legend.

[@damedusa5107]

7000 pounds was a lot more than you think back when this was recorded

[@El_Gormo]

KZbin now purely consists of Americans watching Fred Dibnah…watched by people

[@oldskoolordie]

Dibception

[@El_Gormo]

@@oldskoolordie The Dibonacci rule…

[@Tony-xj2rc]

he throws the bricks down the inside of the tower, and at the bottom there's a little fella with a wheelbarrow wheeling them away!.

[@mathewleese3771]

My grandfather new him 😊 he said was lovely gentleman

[@happilyeggs4627]

7000 pounds. Equivalent to about 70000 pounds at todays rates.

[@jome7382]

Another British legend (called Fred 😉)

[@rcordiner]

Fred took down a chimney stack in my home town and he would autograph bricks for everyone.

[@martinlandy8199]

Fred is a true brit with true grit... my hero

[@keeganjacobs5913]

hes a OG.

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

What can I say us Brits are pretty cool

[@Bluetoothedshark]

Back then in that location, Fred could have bought 2 houses with £7000.

[@mradriankool]

Fred had to upgrade the suspension on his Land Rover to carry his massive balls around

[@stuartstretton6894]

£7000 in 1970s = £50,000+ nowadays. Love the video 💯👍🤓

[@fernbracken]

i loved this black guy hes so natural lol

[@superflyjimmysnucka9068]

Old Fred liked a few pints of beer before he climbed as well!

[@Run187]

7000 in 1979 Is 44,384.58 today ..

[@lestorhaslam]

Have a look too at the B.B.C.’s Blue Peter presenter, John Noakes climbing Nelson’s Column.

[@martynashwood881]

John Noakes was a one off, he once held the record for the highest civilian freefall parachute jump.

[@agnar9036]

people in this day and age bitch about work this man will put anyone in there place any time hes a legend

[@lucylane7397]

Definitely tea

[@janetburrows137]

He had too put two setts of ladders up to. Find one we’re he’s laddering a chimney. 😅😅😂❤❤❤❤🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@saxon-mt5by]

And don't forget as he demolishes the chimney he has to keep removing and re-installing the staging.

[@philsmith7343]

He said £7,000.00 (seven thousand pounds). That amount of money back in the 1970’s would of been a considerable amount of money.

[@barryhowes4799]

come visit the U.K. bro you'll have a blast

[@steerpike50]

Real men don't carry guns they knock chimneys down lol Fred was a ninja workman.

[@ianmclaughlin4043]

Fred must've been good at jenga

[@marcus3060]

Fred was the man of men

[@Ian20232]

£7000 in 1979 would be around £50,000 in 2023

[@timmonk7973]

£7000 then is about 50.000 USD today.

[@janetburrows137]

It’s 300ft chimney ❤❤❤

[@TheVanillatech]

Back then, that £7k would be enough to buy a fairly decent 3 bedroomed house with a big garden, in the north of England where he lived. Imagine he gets three or four of these contracts each year, he would be a very wealthy guy. But earned every single penny of that money.

[@janetburrows137]

This is 1979. 😂😂😂❤

[@kevinworrall231]

Back in the day this is how things we're done

[@aristonia1991]

Brick by brick? there's not enough money in the world where i would do this.

[@Agzeno]

7 thousand pounds he said in the 70's that Would have been like 30k plus today

[@andrewdaley5480]

Its a lot more than that your way off. 🇬🇧 😁

[@Agzeno]

@@andrewdaley5480 Oh ok thanks for the lesson in how to be a weirdo on the Internet 😫😆 did you meet you wide that way or should I say husband 👀👀👀👀 🇺🇲 weird twats

[@Ben-ks5bm]

50k

[@andrewdaley5480]

@@Ben-ks5bm less about 43 thousand pounds. 🇬🇧

[@user-gj3di1rf6k]

But you have to remember is this was made in the 1970s and that thousand pounds is probably an awful lot more now or a lot more 50 years ago long time but then people like Fred Dibner steeplejack they no longer would be allowed to do things the way that they did them back in the 1970s

[@williampatrickfagan7590]

The man would be sacked and probably charged with endangering himself today. He also took down chimnies by removing bricks ate base and then lighting a fire. The heat from the fire further weakened the structure. The structure would then fall within.the time predicted and land where predicted. If the man only had the chance to go to University. He did eventually get a gong from the Queen. Whole series of programmes on bbc TV about his genius. Like I said a terrible waste of a lack of education. Back in hos day, he was either factory fodder or cannon fodder. No poor or very few got the opportunity to go to University. Such was the class divide.

[@davidberesford7009]

A Suggestion - React to the Mutoid Waste Company - Joe Rush and his crew started out as counter culture, but their amazing creations are a legit part of Glastonbury now. well almost.

[@justMe-qp8jv]

Like my💯 grandfather balls of steel

[@andyward8336]

£ 7000 in the 1970s is about $ 39000 .

[@cypher9874]

7000 pounds in the 70s was mega money to a normal working class person

[@jamiewilson9280]

I always wonder who the cameraman was who went up there with him.

[@paulhadfield7909]

he does another where he fells a chimeny in one go

[@martincotty]

Plenty of episodes where he takes them down ...he died in 2004 I think ...

[@arfurwitt6221]

Didn’t Fred realise how dangerous it was to smoke cigarettes?

[@keeblah1111]

7000 pounds was alot of money in 1979