The first of seven episodes from 1982 exploring the fascinating world of Fred Dibnah
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@neiltaylor99215 жыл бұрын
Why didn't English Heritage buy Fred's home and workshop... Oh too busy rescuing homes of the aristocracy to preserve something that the working class can relate to.... Fabulous bloke and one of my heroes
@daleHarrison934 жыл бұрын
yeah mate its a disgrace his yard should of been opened as a museum, untouched as he left it
@englishbreakfast82 Жыл бұрын
It's a really sad affair that Fred's legacy wasn't preserved
@englishbreakfast82 Жыл бұрын
This chap is my absolute Idol
@ShevillMathers Жыл бұрын
If it had anything to do with sport, it would have been saved from day one.
@rk9859 Жыл бұрын
One his houses is in Bolton near where I live with his workshop and everything. Local let’s people have a look very friendly guy
@RichardFrost2 жыл бұрын
The rusted steam engine Fred negotiated in the video took him 27 years to restore and he worked on it and completed it right up to after he was diagnosed with cancer. His final 2 years of his life was focused on restoring it. The steam roller was used to pull his coffin, a day where all of Bolton turned up to pay their respects. What an incredible man .
@eliotreader82202 жыл бұрын
no that was the traction engine that took him on the last journey. Fred's sons Jack and Roger still have their dad's steam roller
@RichardFrost2 жыл бұрын
@@eliotreader8220 I stand corrected .
@GenaF Жыл бұрын
I laughed when Fred said that doing up a traction engine, after his experience with doing the roller, it'd probably only take him 4 years to do. I already knew it had taken him 27 years and was only completed during his illness.
@GenaF Жыл бұрын
Both the roller and tractor were in freds funeral procession. Betsy the roller pulled his travelling trailer AND his landrover. Freds son Roger travelled on that and the tractor pulled an amazing trailer with freds coffin and ladders- his son Jack was driving that. A businessman called Michael Oliver bought Freds roller in 2011. Sadly his 5 children decided to sell it to shut up Freds final wife, blonde dollybird hag Sheila who he cut out of his will. She was contesting the will so they gave her the £264k proceeds from it. Sheila was a horrible woman who wanted to be 'someone important'. She stopped freds steam and mining friends visiting and tried to change what he wore and what he did. I'm unsure what happened to the tractor after the funeral. The press seem to get confused by it and the steam roller.
@stuartolds861411 ай бұрын
TA reg was Devon.
@emilianocaprili41603 жыл бұрын
This documentary isn't simply the story of Fred Dibnah, but a tribute to an entire era and to the humble men who made it; many of whom didn't live enough to become old.
@Samn3212 Жыл бұрын
My own dad included. Loved his machines and was the most clued up fixer ever. Asbestos exposure (for when he was 16) stopped him from getting old in 2016.
@jb6368 Жыл бұрын
Different breed
@OneSingleBreath2 жыл бұрын
Sometimes KZbin recommends true Gems. German myself, I haven‘t heard of Fred before. But this is all just brillant. Hair-rising work on the Chimneys, but it‘s filmed and commentated totally calm. No dramatizing, no unnecessary music…. And at the beginning of this video, Fred drives by a guy burning old leaves on the roadside. Unthinkable nowadays. All in all, every time I stumble upon old documentaries made in Great Britain I‘m on one hand amazed of the overall quality of it. On the other hand, I‘m a bit confused, because I can‘t think of something similar filmed in germany.
@Samn3212 Жыл бұрын
🇩🇪🇬🇧
@TrevorTrolls Жыл бұрын
Your English is fantastic !
@mark.kelley1928 Жыл бұрын
We are all brothers, Germans are fantastic engineers, the world’s best in my opinion, Fred was definitely one in a million bless him, drove me to my occupation and I’ve loved it too 👍 I’m 59 now, still full of steam and ready to go lol 😂
@carlwilson177211 ай бұрын
There were many men like him in Germany I am sure. We are not so different, us and you.
@OneSingleBreath11 ай бұрын
@@carlwilson1772 No, of course not. But I meant this art of filmmaking, in first place, which is truly unique. I found some old short documentaries filmed in Germany in the 60s/70s/80s, which come somewhat close to something like the series about Fred.
@casskop Жыл бұрын
I could listen to Fred all day. I'm from Lancashire and this series makes me nostalgic for when I was a young fella.
@self-preservationsociety70573 жыл бұрын
Fred talks about working quite comfortably once the corner boards are in place , Why am I holding on to my arm chair with white knuckles just watching him ? What a legend , a real bloke !
@march11stoneytony2 жыл бұрын
Thank you mysterious KZbin algorithms for suggesting this gem of a series to me
@jofferybezos292 Жыл бұрын
Seems its only the geniuses who get it 🤔😂
@FLYINGTHOR Жыл бұрын
100%
@BullyBoxer Жыл бұрын
@@jofferybezos292 he was far from Genius , more of an Eccentric.
@frederickkennedy79316 ай бұрын
@@BullyBoxerhow do you know he was “far” from genius? Cuck
@johanconradie21205 ай бұрын
Same here
@alfred42512 жыл бұрын
5 pints of beer and got to the top of the chimney, I struggle after 5 pints going up stairs. Legend of a man !
@leddielive Жыл бұрын
I'm lucky if I can find the stairs let alone climb them! Lols
@petermostyneccleston28845 ай бұрын
As Fred would say, "You try doing this job sober."
@deeppurple8832 жыл бұрын
He had qualities that many don't. His honesty and being a straight talker impressed me. His work ethic should be applauded and held up as a bench mark. The planet is losing all those skills.
@IntEngT2 жыл бұрын
I agree with you deep purple, Fred Dibnah was a great man, a brilliant Victorian brain. I wish I could have met him. if you havnt watched " the day Bolton Stood Still " you really should. it was very moving.
@garethjames13002 жыл бұрын
Already gone in 2022
@IntEngT2 жыл бұрын
@@garethjames1300 ur joking man, they taken it away..Jesus, this world man.
@nilsp94262 жыл бұрын
People complained about the youth today probably from the stone age onwards. I am pretty sure honesty is on the rise, prove me otherwise.
@richsackett34232 жыл бұрын
@@nilsp9426 Good call on honesty. Lying is much more easily found-out.
@mist8k3 жыл бұрын
Nothing but respect for this great man. Steeplejack to the heavens
@halcyon2893 жыл бұрын
Fred must've been as strong as an ox
@marnoch684 жыл бұрын
Of all the people ive seen on the tube this man has to be the bravest person ever. And his knowledge of Victorian England industry is unsurpassed. Real treasure will be missed
@stecrawley65902 жыл бұрын
The drawings Fred did of Victorian stone work and architectural detailing are absolutely amazing I wonder were they ended up after his death a true genuine working class craftsman,engineer,steeplejack a real different breed of a man
@neilclark42262 жыл бұрын
Yea hes fred dibnah mate x
@EskimoCanadian442 жыл бұрын
@@stecrawley6590 Truly the very last of his kind. Seldom, if any, know this trade like Fred.
@markymark5602 жыл бұрын
No disrespect to Fred but i dont think its bravery. I think he has no fear of heights at all.
@RJ1999x2 жыл бұрын
@@markymark560 I'd say brave, or crazy. I have no fear of heights, but I'd never do what he does with those chimneys
@cloud9smokeshop5 жыл бұрын
cameraman under represented in showing this legend. some incredible shots and steadiness in terrible conditions hanging from stuff
@mountainbiker93072 жыл бұрын
@@thomasc6412 Except for the copious amount of shots where the cameraman was walking on the wooden staging.
@bigchris802 жыл бұрын
true this. here to remind you bro to rewatch
@MCMLXXXIV19842 жыл бұрын
He is indeed!
@heydj6857 Жыл бұрын
you're all wrong, all of the shots where taken from a high lift and all the crew wore harnesses, there is some shots of the crew from a distance showing this, all this while fred, who could have used a high lift to do the work, did not, the man had huge balls.
@hansel20012 жыл бұрын
When you look up “honest work” in the dictionary, you see a picture of Fred. The best honor you can bestow upon a man is to say there’ll never be another man like him. Watching a color video in 2022 of someone that literally touched standing remnants of the Industrial Revolution such as steam engines and smokestacks is truly an anachronism in action. Our children will one day ask what an engine is.
@chrism40082 жыл бұрын
They'll also ask you what an anachronism is 🤣🤣🤣
@Fenriz12222 жыл бұрын
i have no idea how i stumbled onto Fred Dibnah but i love this guy...They don't make them like they used to.
@christophernunn9432 жыл бұрын
I'm a great admirer of this mans character and the energy he puts into these projects, although I have to laugh at the lack safety gear, just how it used to be. The epitome of northern English working class man, truly the salt of the earth, it was his kind that sweated and worked their fingers to the bone that built this nation to what it is today and don't believe it came from anywhere else!!
@IntEngT2 жыл бұрын
Yeah man...I agree with your sentiments good sir. Its true.
@GenghisKhan3112 жыл бұрын
Yet he died of cancer. Respect is the greastest safety system
@davidpowell97132 жыл бұрын
Don’t happen to be a northern English working class man yourself by any chance do you?
@christophernunn9432 жыл бұрын
@@davidpowell9713 Hello there David, East Anglian working class smallholder who works like a North of England Fred Dibnah,😄 Always go north for holidays, Always love the sounds of brass bands playing gives me a warm glow inside. love the culture and history
@davidpowell97132 жыл бұрын
@@christophernunn943 yeah it’s nice up north, well it was before it became Pakistan
@talkinghead31693 жыл бұрын
The episode where he built the scaffold round the top of a chimney singlehandedly!, Is one of the greatest feats I've ever seen. All done without one single scaffold tube 😯
@davidoneill9132 жыл бұрын
What an absolute character Fred was ,the world's a poorer place without him.
@herbiegobananas17442 жыл бұрын
What an absolute treat. Remember Fred on the telly when I was a nipper but watching again now you can really appreciate the skill, the intelligence and bravery of the man.
@favorites60376 жыл бұрын
In this Fred mentions drilling over 200 holes my hand, I delivered a compressor to his house to power a pneumatic drill that he had borrowed around 1972. This was long before he became famous.I impressed him by reversing the compressor down his steep drive, and I then got the tour of his workshop and a cup of tea. A week later I picked the comp' up, and got the tour and tea again . I thought at the time that he was an extremely interesting bloke. Many years later, on TV he appeared ,sweating, boring the holes by hand with a ratchet drill !!!. More years later I met him at a steam fair and I mentioned the drill ' exaggeration' ??, He said " Poetic licence lad "}. A truly exception man, and sadly missed. ]
@Just1Spark6 жыл бұрын
The truly passionate often get 'poetic'. ! :D
@ryanessex79785 жыл бұрын
In other words he's a liar.
@kirsti01045 жыл бұрын
FAVORITES he would have drilled the holes with the ratchet drill,how ever in order to close the rivets he would need a compressor for the rivet hammer. It would take some doing with a hammer lol
@philosopherman6835 жыл бұрын
what is the point your trying to make.... that Mr Dibnah was a liar... maybe you are the liar
@charlotteconway86205 жыл бұрын
@@raymondo162 no offence but fuck off soft lad.
@elduder1118 ай бұрын
Started off watching this interested enough. Then when he said “Fred geared down his steam roller to run the machinery…”I knew I would be watching part 2. Truly amazing dude.
@Rx4Lyfe3 ай бұрын
Lol..reading this comment just as he started that.
@CarbonatedTurtle4 жыл бұрын
When he was building the scaffolding I thought at first that he was wearing a harness. Then I realized he's just sitting on a big swing. The fact that cancer is what got him and not accidental death is incredible.
@Megalocade2 жыл бұрын
Yea its remarkable he didn't fall walking along those thin platforms bowing like buggery, interesting that his cancer was in his bladder and surrounding areas you would think with the amount of smoking he did and breathing in all that dust from felling chimneys and toxic shit that came out of the chimneys he didn't have lung cancer, i think he's better off where his is I some how thing he wouldn't like the modern world.
@richsackett34232 жыл бұрын
@@Megalocade Bladder cancer is essentially from not drinking enough water, which is not a surprise considering his work. And he died in 2004. Surely that qualifies as "modern". Not even twenty years ago.
@superchickensoup Жыл бұрын
The amount of smoke's he had in a day while breathing in old tire smoke and probably poking about in asbestos dust all the time, I'm amazed he got as old as he did
@richsackett3423 Жыл бұрын
@Newsbender II I had a cell phone in 2004. I think my third. You should actually go outside into world rather than fearfully hiding from it. Dibnah wasn’t a coward. Learn from his example.
@richsackett3423 Жыл бұрын
@Newsbender II ESL much dude? I said you should not be a coward, dumbass.
@chrisjenkins1 Жыл бұрын
Every time I watch Fred dibnah I end up watching the whole thing lol
@PandorasFolly6 ай бұрын
Like a sasquatch coming out the forest. It's always so unexpected
@gussetblaster67865 жыл бұрын
I cannot stop watching these episodes of Fred. It makes me wish I'd been born in simpler times.
@caffeineisking81323 жыл бұрын
You must be joking, I'm in a 5 star hotel in greece sunbathing around the pool for 2 weeks and I didnt have to work anywhere near as hard as Fred did just to feed himself. Good old days my arse. Never ever wish to go back to those days 99.9% of people would die if they had to work a fraction of that hard.
@jmbrentnall3 жыл бұрын
@@caffeineisking8132 sounds nice and relaxing but it doesn't give one's life a sense of purpose and direction.. That's what's missing.. doing a good job, even when it's hard work is good for the soul
@willhovell90193 жыл бұрын
It was bloody hard work in those days of simpler exploitation and no H&S on building & demolition sites. The BBC made many films about FD and his amazing trad engineering skills. BBC is a great national institution , in spite of Nadine Dorres , "I'm a celebrity get me out of here whilst being paid as an MP " in pay and beckoning of Murdoch and other pay to view US TV media.
@MrAshleywilkinson2 жыл бұрын
It's to quick a pace now fred wouldn't of fit in how busy the roads are now imagine him holding traffic up these days
@richsackett34232 жыл бұрын
You are jonesing to be taken out by some random incurable disease? To each his own I guess.
@simonross82185 жыл бұрын
He was my childhood, loved watching him! Someone who had very very big balls! Anyone else come across this in 2019??
@jasabasenara81245 жыл бұрын
Yeah I have. He had the hardest job on this planet I think.
@davidriley85904 жыл бұрын
2020 what a guy he was
@kenlane66552 жыл бұрын
I was born and raised in Manchester, took off for Australia at 21, and married at Yank at 48 and living in the mid west. Northerners have always been hard workers and this guy's strength is amazing. The lack of any harness or safety gear give me butterflies, as I only ever worked a hundred feet off the ground without a harness as a welder, so I can appreciate it even more. Bless his cotton socks.
@mattgosling2657 Жыл бұрын
Yeah mate he was brave to be working at that hight, even if someone knew how to do this type of work all the health and safety people would go crazy if anyone was doing anything like this. I work in construction myself and we have to wear a harness to work any hight off the ground, everything has to have a hand rail and whatever else. Yeah it's changed a lot since this guy was around.
@papa122136 жыл бұрын
I love and dearly miss this man so very much, it’s so upsetting watching him now.
@thadtuiol17176 жыл бұрын
Me too. When you think of the cowardly mediocrity that gets rewarded in today's corrupt society it's just depressing...
@loadzofhobbies42195 жыл бұрын
At least we had him. He's left a legacy behind that's for sure.
@dunxy4 жыл бұрын
@@loadzofhobbies4219 Too right! Lets hope these videos are available for all until mankind ceases to exist, at least then all the androgynous amoeba's who are taking over the planet can get some idea of what real men were like because there wont be anyone left to call themselves a man if the world keeps going the way it is, im surprised the word man isn't already censored here on yt, being so offensive and all...
@harryaurelian4 жыл бұрын
Remember watching fred as a child, im 21 now, he helped me understand what and how a man should be.
@Romanov35793 жыл бұрын
Exactly 100000 percent
@TVsez6 жыл бұрын
I'm a British Pakistani and grew up around the corner from Fred on Bury New Road. We were as much a part of Bolton as Fred was. He knew my parents and was a top bloke us kids used to see him knocking around all the time... He'd have nothing to do with any rascism treated everyone as a friend! Life was tough for us all, like it always has been for the working man in this country. Fred is a true Boltonian, friendly, funny and open minded!
@michaelgrace12985 жыл бұрын
Can you be a British Pakistani? your parents might have a British and a Pakistani passport but if your borne in England then your English,
@-BuddyGuy5 жыл бұрын
In KZbin comments the dopey racists are always bemoaning the loss of the good old days when men were men and Britain was Britain. In reality guys like them show up to work and do fuck all, without any creativity or ingenuity. If you've got a negative mentality and blame immigrants you'll have the same attitude at work. If you can't stretch your mind away from simple minded nationalism then you'll bring nothing to your job except clocking in and pushing whatever button your supervisor tells you to. I've seen this first hand. Bigotry shows an inability to think laterally.
@crapitoutjim5 жыл бұрын
TVsez why do you keep copying and pasting the same comment in all of the Fred Dibnah videos?
@oo0Spyder0oo5 жыл бұрын
British Pakistan? Either you were born in Pakistan or the UK, you are what ever country you live in. Don't be like the silly yank method of calling people African Americans because people are scared to say black or something.
@grumpy92505 жыл бұрын
@@-BuddyGuy There are two ways you can answer this, either you are a 20 something and the world is great until you realise people will hate you because you're from the UK or you have no links to the UK other than the paycheck you take home every month. The key thing here is, if you are born in Britain you're British. An ability to push a button with no questions is what made Britain Great. BTW I love fucking with remainers like you, you idle twat.
@karlkoehler23202 жыл бұрын
There is sheer beauty in what this unique man does and how he does it. His attitude and craftsmanship remain unsurpassed. May we always remember and honour all those men, everyone a master in his profession, who keep a country up and running, like the bravest of soldiers, no matter what the obstacles are, always on their post doing their duty.
@CraneRecs3 жыл бұрын
The generation that is unfortunately passing away. What a man Fred was, I’m 19 year old turning 20 in a few of months and Ive learned more from Fred than I have from any education in this decade. Hard work is what we need in this day and age.
@pod95383 жыл бұрын
Well done you fella. My son is 23 and don't give two hoots about it. 👍👍👍
@limeykl2 жыл бұрын
What maturity from a young man! Good luck for the future son
@chrism40082 жыл бұрын
Keep that energy and you can go far
@richsackett34232 жыл бұрын
@@chrism4008 Or not. No guarantees, honestly.
@richieferguson36102 жыл бұрын
@@richsackett3423 I agree
@itsadogslife53884 жыл бұрын
Have to say...Sir Fred Dibnah is a real inspiration and his videos/life should be shown to school children across the world, not just Britain. His attitude to work and his application of common sense and courage is amazing. I’m sure there were other men and women in Fred’s time who were equally as brave and good as Fred, but I dunno what it is, but Fred has such a lovely aura about him that makes him so loved the world over. Another unsung hero is the cameraman/women who videographed him up the chimneys. RIP Fred, you are one In a million.
@LOVESEXDREAMS305 Жыл бұрын
When gems like this were on TV we only needed 3 channels lol
@stevedoubleu99B5 жыл бұрын
Nowadays one sees so many people on reality tv, putting on the 'camera act' and just not pulling it off. Fred was so natural, he did not have to try and the camera loved him, as indeed we all did.
@ianhopkins89487 күн бұрын
Separated by time and continents, but Fred feels like a character I've known my whole life. God Bless the working man.
@gcfcos6 жыл бұрын
I don’t think my hands stopped sweating through that whole programme! What a work ethic he had, you can tell he was built for hard graft, what a man
@fastasfox5 жыл бұрын
I don't know who picked the music to Fred's series (The flute ) but it seems to fit him perfectly.
@grannykensbest29393 жыл бұрын
Somepeople say bear grills is one of the bravest men ever. I always answer "i take it youve never watched Fred Dibnah?"
@markpearce25105 ай бұрын
This is the very best of the best Lest we never forget Fred Ist time viewed yesterday Bloody greatness here!
@deanstanley57996 жыл бұрын
A true hard working legend the balls he had to scale those chimneys beggars belief and to not fall is unreal and never to be seen again rip Fred
@dunxy4 жыл бұрын
@@raymondo162 Dick beating internet troll................................................
@lloydisaacs4153 жыл бұрын
Why would you say something like that Raymond ashby
@Huntermoody3 жыл бұрын
@@raymondo162 how do you know ?
@copee29606 жыл бұрын
Just a shame we never got Guy Martin and Fred Dibnah now that would of been a good TV show.ha ha
@gavinoliver80745 жыл бұрын
They would have created an engineering black hole and destroyed more planets than I have bog seats after curries.
@parentsbasement77345 жыл бұрын
Steam powered super bike. And is there a room big enough for both sets of their balls in it at same time
@joops1104 жыл бұрын
*would have "would of" doesn't mean anything
@tonywright82944 жыл бұрын
Fred was a class act, Guy Martin wanker
@holdfast76573 жыл бұрын
Throw Alan Millyard into the mix as well.
@kimchipig4 жыл бұрын
BBC production qualities have always been the best I have ever seen.
@67lionsoflisbon373 жыл бұрын
Beeb not fully appreciated in that regard. Agree with your comment 100%.
@markjlewis4 ай бұрын
The man was a genius in a very humble way. Those hand sketches of how he constructed the platforms on chimneys were simple and also very well drawn.
@Gbonejohn19746 жыл бұрын
14:00 onwards is just remarkable no money in the world could get me to do that id be clinging on crying and hes swaying about moving planks and walking around like hes on the ground the strength to do that besides the bravery is off the charts ....and this is only the prep work to build the structure before he does whatever needs doing whatever he earned wasnt enough
@rossturpin7475 жыл бұрын
John T couldn’t have said that any better mate. 👍🏼
@christycarson47403 жыл бұрын
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@christycarson47403 жыл бұрын
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@jameswalker7459Ай бұрын
Theres only one fred what a amazing man never again will we ever see another fred just astonishing RIP fred....you are so sadly missed...
@takebackyourfuture3246 жыл бұрын
Makes you feel proud to be from Bolton! What a guy! Absolute legend
@davidpowell97132 жыл бұрын
What about if you don’t come from Bolton and have never been there? And don’t really know where it is
@richsackett34232 жыл бұрын
@@davidpowell9713 Too bad you never learned to use a map in school.
@davidpowell97132 жыл бұрын
@@richsackett3423 well I mean how am I meant to be proud of Bolton? Even though I admire Fred Dibnah. I know it’s up north which means it probably resembles India more than England 👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️👳🏾♂️
@rice45508 ай бұрын
@@davidpowell9713im from Bolton and proud of of it those brown people you so hate are makin life round Bolton better creating jobs and business and we all get along nicely take your bigotry back to the incest farm you came from
@benllewelyn985 жыл бұрын
Absolute legend, and absolute madman. But the cameraman who's up there with him is even more nuts
@collector19465 жыл бұрын
Met Fred about 25 years ago at Claremount Liberal Club in Halifax after giving one of his talks... Bought him a pint and had the best chat ever about everything... I will never forget this or his face light up when I offered to buy hime a Pint, Think It Was John Smiths !
@bettywood38284 ай бұрын
Fred was an absolute genius in everything he did and such a humble man
@jannejoensuu8963 ай бұрын
He was a great character and I could listen to Him all day . Greetings from Finland . 🧱⚒
@zchal663 жыл бұрын
I think the reason he can do this so easily is that the pendular effect of his gigantic balls acts as a counterweight when he's precariously balancing out on the edge (rather like the weights you see on helicopter rotors). Unfortunately he missed these out on the drawing he made so it's hard to spot....
@staytrue53072 жыл бұрын
How original 🙄
@zchal662 жыл бұрын
Yes thanks - certainly more original than 1 year later thinking “durrr that’s original” 🙄
@zchal662 жыл бұрын
Yes thanks - certainly more original than 1 year later thinking “durrr that’s original” 🙄
@staytrue53072 жыл бұрын
@@zchal66 carry on being unoriginal for likes, as you were.
@staytrue53072 жыл бұрын
@@zchal66 Also carrying on liking your own comments, pathetic.
@AS-tg8xe5 жыл бұрын
I'm no steeplejack, or anywhere near the caliber of this man, but I have worked in a window cleaning cradle at 550ft among other places, I don't have the balls of this man, but I know why he likes it so high. I once worked a tower in London, level 52 the roof pt1 in a heavy cloud I couldn't see the base of the tower from where I was in Vauxhall. All I could see was canary wharf tower stretching out above the clouds in front of me.
@LukeMay3 жыл бұрын
Damn that’s cool!
@garydouglass95776 жыл бұрын
I wish they had put most of his stuff including his scaffold into a museum. He is the best I've ever seen. Legend. Rip Fred 👏👏👏👏
@southjerseysound73405 жыл бұрын
I'm thankfull to have these videos though I agree with you. Long before the internet my grandfather knew of Fred here in the States just on his reputation alone.
@raymondo1625 жыл бұрын
legendary wife-beating northern twat
@rattusnorvegicus43805 жыл бұрын
"Raymond Ashby1 week ago legendary wife-beating northern twat"...ok now you`ve introduced yourself, can you f`cough please Raymond
@cluffy665 жыл бұрын
His house is a museum now as far as im aware with the steam engines and workshop still intact
@mowoggreen11643 жыл бұрын
@@raymondo162 I take it your Boyfriend beats you up ??? Southern oik !
@bigrigger37625 жыл бұрын
Gave up cubs for this!!! Loved staying with my dear ole nan god bless her, and watching this together.👍
@anythingoldmechanical3 жыл бұрын
Fred was the greatest steeplejack the world has ever seen.
@davidpowell97132 жыл бұрын
Yes, although he didn’t really have any competition for that title did he? I mean I’m struggling to think of any other steeplejacks 🤔
@leecoops20025 ай бұрын
Scrambling up huge towers on the outside and taking those towers down. Playing games with the reaper for a living. A very full life
@mrofnocnon2 жыл бұрын
What a guy! This brings back so many wonderful memories of the time.
@geoffm99443 жыл бұрын
The legendary Fred Dibnah! The ultimate hard working, skilful and courageous steeplejack. Fred was also an amazing, talented self taught mechanical engineer! He had incredible stamina and he relished every challenge! His TV programmes on buildings, steam and railways were a testament to Fred’s knowledge and a natural ability to communicate his passion on everything which involved construction work and engineering!
@nipperparr67095 жыл бұрын
The perfectionist he is, when he's doing the drawing of the chimney, on how to put the scaffold planks around it, he draws a line on the end of a plank he missed when he first drew them, even though he finished explaining how he does it!
@CForged5 жыл бұрын
Fred puts a smile on this Chicagoan’s face.
@CForged4 жыл бұрын
@Randy Bingham Nice 👍🏼 cheers to a couple a pints 🍺 with Fred
@petercross88716 жыл бұрын
Complete legend, would have loved to have met him
@RogerWilcoSnr5 жыл бұрын
Top bloke. Lancashire is very proud of this fella.
@dunxy4 жыл бұрын
Rightly so at that!
@jonfoulkes316011 ай бұрын
This mans conversation warms my soul, I get it, not the crazy climbing of chimneys but the excitement of a task to be done/ completed/ accomplished. Funny that he was up there working is arse off and thinking of the "heavier" work he couldn't wait to get done at home. Magnificent 🙏
@robomoto55502 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing. If u asked me if could 1 man do all that 200 feet in the air. id say no, im awestruck and seriously impressed and also i realised my work isnt THAT hard.
@mattseymour86374 жыл бұрын
A legend that will be sadly missed and so talented and skilled
@markhatten53186 жыл бұрын
Amazing such a hard job gives me the wobbles just watching it
@thorsvensson81722 жыл бұрын
A truly extraordinary piece of television. Fred is portrayed to be the remarkable man that he was. I get chills down my spine every time I watch it.
@johnlsullivan51803 жыл бұрын
He's a hero to me, Bricky since I was sixteen nothing easy about what he did amazing 👍
@Woody_Florida2 ай бұрын
I am so happy to have discovered Fred on KZbin. This guy is so great, i have watched every video and series with him a couple times now. I just wish he was still around to know that the rest of the world has discovered his work. RIP
@davidriley85904 жыл бұрын
I HAD BUTTERFLIES JUST WATCHING HIM
@blxtothis2 жыл бұрын
One can never tire of watching this incredible bloke.
@richardingle75405 жыл бұрын
Fred was a propper bloke not afraid of hard work reminds me of starting out as a labourer on a building site , everything was lifted up or handballed as it was called, up by hods or men staged on scaffolding ...lugging bricks up in a hod up 4 ladders was hard work ...and you would do that trip hundreds of times a day keeping the bricklayers in cement and bricks as well as mixing it ...that was if you wasnt working for the carpenters carrying wood ,doors , knocking holes in the wall with a hole chisel no power tools like i use now as a carpenter, the capenters would then make wooden plugs for the skirting ..arcs door casings ...every day i came home shattered but feeling great , like you really achieved something ......best years of my life ...hard work good mates down the pub on a friday hahaha , now days with power everthing and telehandlers ...the youngens dont know how easy it has become 😲😂👍
@PatrickKelly-lz3pv5 жыл бұрын
Richard Ingle Strip foundations were all excavated with a spit and a shovel, Wimpey never used a JCB if a gang of men could do it by hand, then the concrete was wheeled in to position using a barrow, nine yards of concrete would arrive in the drum of a waggon then tipped in a heap and then it had to be shifted with shovels before it went off, waggons carrying nine thousand facing bricks each would be delivered on site coming all the way from Peterborough, they were not on pallets all of them had to be off loaded by hand, cement in eight stone bags still hot from the factory burnt your back as you stacked it under tarpaulin sheets, curb stones paving stones and drainage pipes were all off loaded by hand, under the watchful eye of the General Forman watching from his cabin window, I was fifteen when I started on a construction site I was a can boy I had to boil water in a cess pot by collecting scrap timber from around the site and making a fire under the pot until it boiled, and if the water was not boiled when the gangs of men came to fill their enamel tea cans I got a beating.
@pigknickers29754 жыл бұрын
Yep, first job I had after school labouring on a posh office bock in central London, oak doors walked up to the 5th floor. Took days to do a floor. Every flight a fookin nightmare. Then it was the sixth floor. Jeez. The blokes on the site were more interesting than ANYONE on TV now. All amazing characters. Seems like yesterday but it wasn't.
@jonpettet7085 Жыл бұрын
Keep watching his series over and over,
@geoffm99442 жыл бұрын
Looking at Fred on the scaffolding platform, hundreds of feet in the air, and without a safety harness, makes me realise that not many folk could work at that height! A true working hero!
@mickpearson6184 Жыл бұрын
One in a million
@robw7676 Жыл бұрын
Then consider a BBC cameraman climbed up there to film him, carrying a 16mm film camera 😮 I doubt there's anyone at the BBC now with the balls to climb a house chimney let alone a factory one.
@MrBmxbrawler3 жыл бұрын
I could watch these forever. What a glorious man!
@leewilson21405 жыл бұрын
His strength and fitness,was amazing.Doing all that graft,up there!!
@mrmyorky5634 Жыл бұрын
Fred Dibnah, a modest, unassuming, hardworking man. Without question he's the working man's hero.
@existingwoman37534 жыл бұрын
This guy is bursting with character, I like him.
@jb6368 Жыл бұрын
Watched everyone of these and I never heard fred once complain. Guy different breed.
@croft90464 жыл бұрын
I can’t stop watching this mans videos, what a humble hardworking ,easy pleased man he was, he’s so funny some of the things he says.
@martindavies83262 жыл бұрын
God bless he was one of a kind, I still love watching him after all these years, Fred was one of the best.👍
@neontetra10003 жыл бұрын
I’ve been binge watching Fred tonight but this is actually giving me anxiety . On a plank that high!? I would die of fear.
@esseker63202 жыл бұрын
Used to love watching Fred, R.I.P Fred.
@bargainplaceuk6 жыл бұрын
Be nice for the National Trust to buy Fred's old house and open it up for the public to view and appreciate.
@eliotmansfield4 жыл бұрын
It was on rightmove a month or two ago
@marcelgordijn14002 жыл бұрын
OMG Man like him are a rare spieces ,RESPECT,straight talker indeed
@bobbypaluga43464 жыл бұрын
An amazing man, a real man, sadly there aren’t many left. I bought every book that was written by or about. Fred while watching all of his shows on KZbin. I can’t imagine how he set up his ladders, climbing to this top of some very high smokestacks. I can see it, I just don’t believe what I’m seeing. I know I’d fall and break my ass before I got to 10’. Wherever you are Fred, I wish I’d met you but I doubt you ever got to Phoenix, AZ in your travels, when Blackpool was a once in a lifetime trip for you are the family.
@simonlunt3532 жыл бұрын
I remember doing a job at Bolton and the customer we were working for Took me passed Fred’s house at the time Fred was alive but I was not lucky too see this great man I have been back to Bolton and by this time dear Fred had passed away sad days but I did see his statue of Fred what a great man we will miss you Fred
@SorryIwasntListening4 жыл бұрын
Just looked at DM 3079 "Alison" Steam Roller is Taxed and Road Legal!! Fred would be proud.
@thomasnesmith54262 жыл бұрын
When you love what you do and you know you are good at what you love you end up with Fred.
@Sparkey6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading these, a blast from the past, Fred was a legend. :)
@michaelcoghlan91245 ай бұрын
Great history an information, how things had to get done, an only 50 years ago. Thank goodness we can look back@ what built our today an the great people that did the real work. God bless Fred. Thanks for this posting. M
@SquillyMon5 жыл бұрын
Now this man knows what WORK is... You have to be really strong to pull off that scaffold build like that. Amazing!
@tardismole5 жыл бұрын
This brings back so many memories. Fred Dibnah was a childhood staple on our house. Thanks for sharing. I shall be happily ensconced reliving every episode for the next several days, with a Do Not Disturb sign on the door. :)
@mcginn0023 жыл бұрын
Never see the like of Fred again , died far to young .RIP.
@KPearce575 жыл бұрын
Fred mentioned that the Chimney swayed in the wind, he would have liked to be on a 600 foot cell tower they move as much as 2 feet. Much respect for Fred!
@goodgravy95622 жыл бұрын
That sounds nauseating
@gehillz40754 жыл бұрын
My hero. Mr Fred Dibnah M.B.E Inspired so many souls including my own. The real men who built this great country of ours the working class. The suits are all conman as Fred said. Need more youngers like myself involved in the building trades
@rorywest49374 жыл бұрын
Hello George, glad to see another young man in the trades. I'm a 19 year old Ironworker from California and I build Skyscrapers in San Francisco. Good luck in your career.
@gehillz40754 жыл бұрын
@@rorywest4937 Hey buddy. That's great to hear I wish you all the luck . That's an impressive job. I'm an plumber. bit more ground level lol
@NoAimGamer_0 Жыл бұрын
Absolute Definition of Legend
@stanley84415 жыл бұрын
"I think its time we went for a pint" id have given anything to go for a beer with fred
@everydayhero50762 жыл бұрын
I can only imagine the view from up there, I bet it's beautiful. Thanks for uploading this, I'm going to binge-watch the shit out of Fred! I'm 6'10" tall, around 2 meters, and I have a sensible fear of heights. Mainly because I know what it's like to fall and hit the ground.
@mackjones89342 жыл бұрын
This guy is absolutely what I've heard termed a "top lad". There arent many people left in Britain or America that have the ethos that Fred did.
@joedell716 жыл бұрын
men like Fred have all but disappeared never to be replaced and with him goes all the knowledge and skill he possessed. Would have loved to meet him.
@bigredc2226 жыл бұрын
A lot of the young people think it's beneath them to do physical labor.
@RodKirkbride6 жыл бұрын
Patrick Ancona To paraphrase Joe Mallen -- "were still about" !
@dunxy4 жыл бұрын
@@bigredc222 And that is what causes their downfall.... I spent time with men of similar ilk, all old school steam era railwaymen. Spent much time inside the firebox of steam loco's,cleaning brick arches and inspecting the fusible plugs and inner firebox, cleaning smoke box's,chopping tonnes of firewood for every light-up and doing wash outs.All hard, hot and dirty work but not something i would change for anything,id go back and do it all again.Young people these days just don't get it, far too concerned with playing video games and trying to get their gentiles sucked.
@bigredc2224 жыл бұрын
They all complain about their college loans, when I graduated high school if you couldn't afford to go to college you went to work, you didn't borrow a ridiculous amount of money.
@derekblake938511 ай бұрын
He has to be one of the bravest men ever to live.
@basilguts1786 Жыл бұрын
As tough as the nails in his boots 🥾. Proper solid character,this country as of 2023 would be in a much better place if everyone had Fred’s work ethic.👍