What a man, His likes will never be seen again, Rest In Peace Fred

@DaillestBiggiesmalls

Ай бұрын

That's right that! Fred is a national treasure!

@cantcomeupwithausern

15 күн бұрын

Meh, once we get taken out by a meteor, and all our tech disappears, someone like Fred will come along once again

@DaillestBiggiesmalls

15 күн бұрын

@@cantcomeupwithausern Hahaha that's pure facts 😂😂😂

What happened to this country,,why has this type of Man disappeared. There should be a monument to this Great man.

@kavasir7042

Ай бұрын

Probably cause there's no more chimneys to bring down cause he got them all! 😂 But yeah Mr Dibnah was a hell of a bloke, learned a lot about steam engines because of his documentaries.

@voltagefireworker7849

Ай бұрын

More important stuff like electricians, plumbers or workers on the road fixing our infrastructure.

@bbjjfslipk6552

22 күн бұрын

I'm a steel erector,welder and fabricator we are here man we just need Hella load more tickets for stuff these days like watching Fred and comparing it to my training is insane , today this man would be taken off the site before he even walked on it and then it would take like month more to make it safe and another month to bring it down ,like safety has definitely improved but for Fred it was shear experience and this what makes it extremely impressive. Like no way in hell would I ever do what Fred does like it's walk in park .

@voltagefireworker7849

20 күн бұрын

@@bbjjfslipk6552 Did you know, fred dibnah collect pictures from death steeplejacks, maybe all the deaths are the reason for safety in the western world

Every time I watch Fred, I can't help but think: "a working class hero is something to be"

@jeffoneill3429

2 ай бұрын

Well said.

@borntoclimb7116

Ай бұрын

But lot of deaths in the past and the Most peoples dont want this fact.

@13donstalos

Ай бұрын

@@borntoclimb7116 It's like the fact that a hundred corpses are inside the Hoover Dam. Working class people died to build the civilization we take for granted today. God bless those men.

@borntoclimb7116

Ай бұрын

@@13donstalos million peoples are stil working but the peoples just care about these climbing working guys. The average work on farms, as a trucker or in the food supply or on construction sites for our roads and Infrastruktur. Sounds boring but these jobs are way more important than steeplejack

@13donstalos

Ай бұрын

@@borntoclimb7116 True but Fred encapsulates working class vibes like none other

All I can say is LEGEND !! 🙃

One of my heroes. Cut from different cloth.

'How to Ladder a Chimney" Should say " how to have the biggest pair of balls and survive" I have climbed scaffolding all my life, 50 years' worth, and I always considered, myself as the best, but this guy blows me away, he is king!!

@rogerpartner2648

2 ай бұрын

I hear you. I’ve worked in lift shafts 20 floors high and I’m still in AWE. windy towers wet greasy bricks. Some even enamelled.

@borntoclimb7116

Ай бұрын

This is Impressive but watch Alain Robert

@christiansfortruth5953

Ай бұрын

No he is not king. The way he ladders a stack (chimney) is suicidle. I'm surprised he survived. One of those dogs comes out and hes had it. In Nottingham it would not be allowed. Four dogs per ladder. Two at the top....3 rungs down and two at the bottom .. 3 rungs from the bottom. Non of this lashing the ladders together horses......either.😅😅😅😅😅😅

@borntoclimb7116

Ай бұрын

@@christiansfortruth5953 in many 3rd world countries they Work Like this today

@voltagefireworker7849

Ай бұрын

@@borntoclimb7116 Alex Honnold is even more impressive.

Sounds complicated, but Fred was the master of laddering a 200-foot chimney What a lovely bloke & true character🙌 RIP Fred

I could watch Fred all day. This is remarkable!!!

haha "that's where the beer belly comes in handy". what a man

This bloke was seriously mental. No sane person would this. Amazing guy.

Balls of steel this man had

@piotrn4741

12 күн бұрын

Tytan

Wow. I would have loved to hang out with this guy and listen to his stories for hours. Shoutout to the BBC crew filming from the lift. Did you see it swaying in the wind? Wow!

Love watching these old episodes what a brave man it takes a very special kind of man to do this kinda work this used to be great TV not like today's reality TV with is a load of rubbish

Crazy what he did and how he did it. Great video!

He’s a national hero

I've seen this many times but it's still better than any of the crap today 🥰 thanks for sharing 👊

My mini claim to fame is that I stood & watched Fred on Bolton Church steeple! I was fascinated.. People were going about their day & did not not seem aware. Just Fred, his ladders & some ropes. Would be stopped these days because of "Elf & Safe" I guess? What a legend he was. Thank you for posting.

@mikeprimm4077

Ай бұрын

Yeah God forbid you do something safely. Technology has evolved, you can do it quicker, cheaper, easier, and a hell of a lot safer by renting the man lift that's 6 ft away from him to the right. I understand they were documenting the last of the real old time steeplejacks, but you have to evolve with the times. You are literally risking life and limb, and your family's financial security to make a couple thousand dollars if that, fixing a rotten smoke stack. Not even fixing it, inspecting it to see if it needs to be fixed. I understand that's the way he had to do it back in the day. But at the time this video was filmed obviously there were quicker, safer, and more efficient ways to do it. All those people that say what happened to men like this, they died. They either fell off of 200 ft smoke stacks and died, or got cancer from the residual carcinogens in the coal residue. Or from what they used to make the mortar out of, or had a heart attack hauling ladders up a 200 ft smoke stack. Completely destroyed their body so they couldn't walk anymore after 60. But yeah let's look up to these men. I get it it's interesting seeing how it used to be done back before the technology existed to do it a different way, but it exists now. And people like this were part of the problem, slaving away risking your life so somebody else can make money. They didn't even pay him that damn much. Harnesses existed at that time, I know everybody laughs at all the safety Sally's out there, but the first time you fall, and a harness saves your life, you will wear one every time you leave the ground after that. Ask me how I know.

@domgoodwin8989

20 күн бұрын

Like I get that it gets kinda ridiculous but nobody should ever forget every single one of those safety rules is written in blood

I get vertigo sitting on the sofa just watching this😂

PURE BALLS!

Ena Mill in Atherton . I lived a minute from here and it's all still there .

The heart and arms of a Lion!!

Legend. Absolute legend! ⭐️

My palms were sweating when he put the first ladder up. Then he told us how exciting it is when the wind is blowing and he is 3/4 of the way up the chimney. I would rather be shot at dawn than put those ladders up the side of a 200 foot chimney. What a man Fred was.

What a brave hero,unbelievable bloke.

Good auld Fred doing what he done best i do miss watching him and i can mind back tae the first time i watched him still excites me and am forty this year .

I love this it needs more views, I didn't realise he just hooks his leg round the ladder the bloke was absolutely fearless its quite heart stopping watching him climb higher & higher & just tapping in a dog I wonder if its where the phrase '' top dog'' comes from?

@Bob-jn1fx

4 ай бұрын

No top dog refers to sawing wood in the old days. basically would place a board across a pit two man saw one in the pit one on top. bottom was a s*** job. guy on top was top dog. I think there's a video with Fred explaining it

Stumbled across this. Glad I did - fascinating…

@GreatBritishChannel

11 ай бұрын

Did you happen to notice the other Fred Dibnah videos we have too.

When the winds trying to snap the ladder off sideways, it can be quite exciting!!! No Fred, no - that's shit scary is what that is. It's unreal to think this wasn't actually that long ago! The hard workers like Fred are still about, just have far more red tape in place these days to do the job - as an office mug I don't profess to be one, but certainly admire them!

Well done.

Legend

Another great video

Hero of mine they don’t make men like this anymore in any shape or form!

Old Fred must have been quite physically fit to do this day in day out.

A national treasure

Health and safety feared Fred and just left him alone

@soulmod63

19 күн бұрын

hahahaha what a load of shite, there was no health & safety

I’m shitting myself watching it😱

Bloody crazy 😧😧

Legend!

The camera man in the skylift probally shitting his pants.and then there is. Fred just sitting on his ladder explaning hisnwork

I don't know how anyone could do this job and live long

I know exactly what it takes to do this job. I have a 2 step - stool in my kitchen to reach my top cabinet. You have to be careful that high up, any breeze will knock you down!

@MantisTobogganDoctorofMedicine

Ай бұрын

I myself have a three step and it's terrifying..

Fred dibna was a national treasure. But also, you're seeing a lost art. And a batshit crazy man lol it's insane the things people do for money. There's a man lift right there, that he could rent, inspect the whole chimney in one day. Instead of spending hours and hours lugging ladders around and risking your life for a rotten smoke stack. Like I get that's how he had to do it back in the day, but things evolve. The technology to do it quickly and safely, and cheaply is literally 6 ft away from him, filming him doing it the old way.

2lb hammer a Cold chisel few bits of wood. IRON hook stays. Two per ladder. Etc. this I what built bridges railways etc etc. simple cheap reliable 🙏

The videos are better without music

Its amazing the whole thing is held steady by the one guy on the ground

@paulnicholson1906

Ай бұрын

The guy on the ground is probably most at risk from Fred dropping something. I remember working on a project and we were up high and took our hard hats off and got old off by the project engineer. Thing was we didn’t really need them, nothing was going to fall on us. He on the other hand needed one in case we dropped something.

For a man that did this so many times, it’s incredible he never once had a serious accident in his career. Well, except getting married, that was a tragedy he’d say. 😕

Very impressive!! A man's man!! Another amazing video all about toughness and grit can be found if you search "The Last Cape Horners" . Give it a look. REAL MEN like Fred !! These types of videos should be standard viewing in schools. Show the kids just how easy life is today as compared to yesteryear.

God bless the lift equipmentzzzz

This guy has balls the size of watermelons, im absolutely terrified of heights, so seeing this man climb up the side of this chimney with just rope, twine, and ladders is scary as shit. No tie offs, no osha, just a good time had by all lmao.

Now here's a man who knows how to handle a hammer.

I'm stunned. Great famous man. However, I was a steeple Jack in the mid 1980's in Nottingham. We did lightning rods, top offs, pointing up in a bosons chair. Painting cooling towers. I never was involved with bringing a complete stack down. I would start with the first ladder. Two dogs. One each side. Not just one. In the middle. They were placed about four rungs from the bottom. Four rungs from the top you had the same. We had 18 inch metal rods that connected to thr ladder in the predetermined place. We hit in the first bottom two dogs and place the ladder upright and put the right angled hook into the hole that is in the dog. I then climb the ladder half way and put in the next two dogs at the top of this first ladder. I then climb to he top and put my leg through a ru g and hook my foot to the ring below. I then put in the two bottom dogs for the next ladder the next ladder will fit into a metal bracket on the top of both staves of each ladder. The ladders go end to end. Not half way lashed and over and over again. We dont have pullies. The number two guy puts his arm through the next ladder and climbs the first ladder. I am sitting right on the top of the first ladder. I take hold of his ladder and ax he continues to climb. I place the staves into the metal brackets and place the two metal rods into the holes of the bottom dogs. He goes down the ladder. I go up the second ladder to the middle. Hook my leg around the ring like before and put in the top dogs for this second ladder. And ar continue to the top. Perfectly safe, especially with four dogs per ladder ... not two. No roping off.. No wasting half the ladder length making it twice as long to erect. I respect Fred. But in Nottingham there is no company....not even Blackburn and Starling who would have employed him. Respects. 😊😊😊😊😊

Way braver than most people especially today could u imagine grandad telling you at 15 today where pointing that chimney at the top ...shit myself and definitely not going up that ladder hanging on to nothing serious man FRED HES A PROPPER TRAIDSMAN OF MANY TALENTS ..RIP MY FRIEND ❤

After repairing my sloping roof, with sweat on my buttocks from the fright, I thought I was king. But compared to him it was only Doom level 0.1, he is at level 1000

Ena Mill is across the road from me I’ve seen Fred here.

The days when a man was a real man and no this crap weve got in this country now . R.i.p fred

Brilliant 👏🏻 ow hes just avin a chat while up there

I wonder how Fred laddered the 2 overhangs on India Mill Chimney, Darwen.

Wonder how many times he has hit his hand with that hammer

Fred makes me want to be a stronger man

How can Fred get up them ladders with bollicks that big

You can have Spider-Man. I’ll have Fred…

He’s got some massive balls

Never be another like Fred. The guys in the lift are like..quit rocking, dont move

Are the ladders timber?

@union310

Ай бұрын

Yes

Would it be possible for the chimney owner have ladders fixed full time

@davidobrien7235

2 ай бұрын

Modern materials yes, when these monsters were built not a chance they would be usable and safe.

my question is How many ladders did Fred own? and did they all go on that Land Rover defender ??

@nickcook7408

2 ай бұрын

Until 1986, Fred owned all of the ladders in the North of England.

Why didn’t he just hire one of them machines that was filming him 😮

Fooooooking hell. Sod that, get dizzy watching him do it . Balls of steal to go that high, health and safety would have a field day today

As a urban climber i love those old videos but climbing a ladder isnt difficult. The work on the chimney is Impressive. In india many workers are work on the big Steelbridge in Kalkutta without even a ladder, they climb the steelstructures, true lattice Climbing.

There is something very Monty Python on this video...

Why not just use a crane? "No, I prefer me ladders!" This guy is oldl school.....and he still has to get all the way to the top to set up rigging and start demolition on the chimney!

An all ameriBritish Hero

Vivió mucho para no usar ninguna medida de seguridad. Evidentemente eran otros tiempos. Hoy no le permitirian subir. De todos modos, mas allá de saber lo que hacía, tuvo suerte, porque los accidentes ocurren... Parece mentira el control que tenía, cero vértigo, sostenido con sus piernas trabadas entre escalones. Si fuera en norteamérica, lo dinamitan y a otra cosa.

Man had nerves

Why didn't they leave the dogs in permanently?

@colinmoore7460

2 ай бұрын

The plug wood holding them in would rot. And he could use them again on the next chimney.

Impressive, but I don't understand why they don't just leave the dogs installed in the chimney...

Next time: How to ladder a stocking.

Done this couple times. First time was on a steal stack. Half way up on my first time the wind caught my ladder. Had to jam it into the ladder I was on cuz nothing is allowed to fall. Boss yelled to ask where I was going% 😂

Sailors “ top men “ from the 1800 century. With knowledge of ROPES PULLEYS. THE basic physics of BLOCK an TACKLE. where perfectly placed to build these giant towers. And factors. Etc. before proper scaffolding. In China they still use woobly Bamboo up til 60 ft. .. er not anymore. Fred would laugh his ass off About Fast Buildtech and. One bag of cement to 20 bags sand. Instead of 6 bags sand one band cement. Sadly China. Don’t know this

Great vid didn’t need the annoying piano in the background

annoying music added. probably to get around copyright bots.

Don’t forget: diversity built Britain.

No...nope....no way.

This shit freaks me out. No ppe yikes

Why did you have to add that annoying music?

Why ard the crap piano music?

Too bad they ruined this video by adding that stupid piano soundtrack. I know why they did it to get by the copyright, but still it's awful.

Beats a banana tree climber into the education

Just shows you not all "clinically insane people " are dangerous

And I was feeling sorry for myself when I was at the top of a 32 foot ladder. 🪜 😢