"..it cleans yer fingernails while yer doing it..." Legend.

@marknicol1554

2 жыл бұрын

Bang on comment 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Been to look round your garden today Fred and been to your grave wish they had looked after it better after you gave so much RIP mate never be another

@Outlawstar0198

Жыл бұрын

Are they in good condition?

This world needs more people like Fred to sort this world out? Fred for president.

@Cola64

3 жыл бұрын

🤙🏻 even more so today

@MrWeAllAreOne

2 жыл бұрын

He's Dead.

@Gggrrrrrrrr23

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrWeAllAreOne "like"

@jamiehalpin9921

2 жыл бұрын

How would Fred running any country, anywhere, be good? He's a top bloke, but, c'mon, put the pig back in the pen.

@MEHtheshow

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrWeAllAreOne he posted that 10 years ago, learn to read

the world was a happier place in his day, he could have worked wonders with the kids of today

@nelotharen8599

Жыл бұрын

send delinquent a boy up a 400 foot chimney and he comes back down as a man.

@thetruth1862

5 ай бұрын

I think he would be accepted as a scholar and been able to teach in a university, the common sense of these men of the time is unbelievable by today's standards, he couldn't Google anything he just had to try and see what worked !

Fred had to stop smoking, cos when he puffed on a cigarette - the cigarette got cancer.

Fred Dibnah a man of those times, our time and for all time..

@geoffreycarson2311

2 жыл бұрын

MAN FOR ALL SEASONS !!!✌g

@thetruth1862

5 ай бұрын

Amen

My only regret was never meeting Fred. What a smashing chap he was :-)

@alan9160

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@JOHNNYCRAIG

Жыл бұрын

Met him in the 90s, I was only in my late teens but was fascinated by his story’s. He was a lovely man and when he spoke you just listened. Legend

@robertbaxter4021

8 ай бұрын

I've actually seen him once at a traction engine rally but back then I didn't know who he was, if I had of done I would definitely have gone over to speak to him

Fred, you are sadly missed, I loved you (in the nicest posible way). You always showed such enthusiasm to our history. You were only a 'stones-throw' from my home town.... (Blackpool). There will never be another !!!! Your enthusiasm is second-to-none!!!! You will never be forgotten. R.I.P. Your Memory will live on.

@devawheels3942

2 жыл бұрын

Hardly a stones throw

@Wonderkid44

2 жыл бұрын

@@devawheels3942 init, what on earth is he on about

@24sumo

2 жыл бұрын

This definitely wasn’t written by his neighbour

@blackpoolbarmpot

2 жыл бұрын

@@devawheels3942 : Well Bolton isn't that far away from Blackpool and technically we are in the same County.

@devawheels3942

2 жыл бұрын

@@blackpoolbarmpot yeah it's ONLY 40 odd miles.

I’d say pass me the fairy liquid sue I’ll wash the dishes, now you can get up that fucking chimney stack and start knocking it down.

@poochie81

2 жыл бұрын

Fucking brilliant.

@redacted7634

2 жыл бұрын

I imagine he did 🤣

@whittaker685

2 жыл бұрын

Low key poetry. Well put.

@J3TF1RE

2 жыл бұрын

This is why I love the internet. 4 years later and you made someone else laugh. Well done!

@sixonesix9429

2 жыл бұрын

Took the words right out of my mouth. Brilliant.

The power of the snatch

@peggi18

4 жыл бұрын

Trevor Hayes Yh it was a good film wasn’t it

@harrymonk6

3 жыл бұрын

Whats a bit of fanny got to do with this?

@pleidiolwyfimwlad2104

2 жыл бұрын

@@harrymonk6 u takin the piss?

@harrymonk6

2 жыл бұрын

@@pleidiolwyfimwlad2104 dude wtf?

@PAYNEKILLER..

2 жыл бұрын

Wicked, this is disheartening. Sue is my worst nightmare.

A Legend of a man!

Deadly the inspector was delighted all he cared about was the birds Fred got away there what a man

@Pepper1770

2 жыл бұрын

Trust imagine if he’d done that these days the inspector would be walking away with a snapped broom up his arse about that situation

Love watching Fred. Warts n all, he's the double in both looks and personality of my late grandfather. Old fashioned views, an almost aspergers type personality but a loving individual at heart.

@thetruth1862

5 ай бұрын

He reminds me of my grandfather he would be about 89 if he where alive today , he worked on gas pumps he always had 2 or 3 at the house in the garage

@Jimjon24

5 ай бұрын

@@thetruth1862 cool, mine worked at a ropery, but was an engineering genius. He once turned his panther motorcycle (extremely valuable now) into a chopper pedal bike for me to learn on haha, a good insight into his character.

@thetruth1862

5 ай бұрын

@@Jimjon24 Do you still have the pedal bike , that would be nice , these men I hope will never be forgotten, they where born in a time where you put your nose down and worked for a living something that many today don't understand.

@thetruth1862

5 ай бұрын

What was your grandfathers name mine was Jimmy Keith Williams from East Tennessee USA

To be fair it's not usually the steam engines themselves that are noisy, it's the machinery you drive with them. I bet our air compressor annoys the neighbours more 😁

"I like a woman in stockings and suspenders!" Frederick Travis Dibnah M.B.E 🏆🇬🇧

Let’s be honest living next door to him would be a nightmare 🙉

@davidfletcher2162

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine him firing one his of engines up on a peaceful Sunday morning lol

@Bart-Did-it

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidfletcher2162 it was music to him lol

@SuperFunkmachine

2 жыл бұрын

But brilliant , fred you got extra rare thingamabob, course he has an he'll give you a hand with it too...

@Bart-Did-it

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuperFunkmachine Fred could build a SuperFunkMachine I’m sure

@jerrodbutali3990

2 жыл бұрын

Greta Thornburgs neighbor.

Wife getting angry when you won’t buy a round for everyone at the pub? Perfect!

@loveistheanswer8137

2 жыл бұрын

When you’ve had six pints, and haven’t bought one yet, it’s your round.

@Aerojet01

Жыл бұрын

Wives like her are the reason why men end up in the pub.

Love the man. A remarkable tough nut. With a vulnerable streak that made him a man of his time. When women remaining tied to the stove was just the start.

Legend! "It cleans the fingers nails I suppose" 😂

Fred is one of my heros

@Embracing01

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly most people's idea of heroes probably include the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond and Edd China. Away from TV motoring presenters they would chose Jordan Petersen and Joe Rogan. Sadly Fred wouldn't make the list today amongst the Netflix binger watchers, facebook/Twitter generation.

Love this guy. A mans man

It’s them fearless qualities that make fighter pilots and astronauts

Yeah that Sue was a genius... she meets him while he was pissed out of his head (and probably pretty happy)... and she thought she would cheer him up by moving in his house and stopping him drinking and smoking. Yep Fred could pic em! ;)

@pakistaniraveasylum1396

6 жыл бұрын

truemanc codependency

@drewhunter4821

5 жыл бұрын

@Jasonsenipor Fred died of bladder cancer, not lung cancer

@Neontrifle

4 жыл бұрын

@@drewhunter4821 Smoking is one of the biggest causes of bladder cancer

@megadave1197

4 жыл бұрын

Jasonsenipor Doing what? He lived for climbing chimneys not rotting away is some old people home with Sue draining his back account. You need to remember pal that we are all gonna die. No one gets out here alive. At least Fred lived his life. What you gonna do live a clean life, avoid risks and rot in an old people’s home until your half a day out with the undertaker?

@hansmueller3029

3 жыл бұрын

@@Neontrifle untrue it's undiagnosed infections of the urinary tract and STDs such as Clamydia

You all have had a person who was differant, even rough around the edges. But that person is also a true friend to you in many ways. So it is easy to be his friend back.

Great men❤

Some woman only get into a relationship with a man to “fix” him. Thy just need a project to make themselves feel better

Love this guy

He is a likable character isn't he.

Your thinking was the right way the world was a better place not perfect just better safer rip big man

Looker afterer

@jayprescott8276

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣

2:38 Buy a round? Easy to say when it isn’t your money buying it, lady! Fred is a national treasure, miss. Don’t ever forget that.

The good thing about washing up is it cleans your fingernails. Legend😂

And at 61 I'm still glad I'm single.

Poor lad slowly succumbing to the crushing weight of modernity in the form of Sue

@agentcarbunkle

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@Drewster195

2 жыл бұрын

If only men of that generation said 'no woman I'm not doing the washing up' we would be in a lot better a place now.

@heroinwithease

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drewster195 no

@tokyomobster3072

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drewster195 is the task too difficult for you?

@peterherrington3300

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing wrong with him washing up . Stick her on a 250 foot ladder , here's your hammer love , up you go . . .

I miss when Britain was like this. Reminds me of being young.

@wackyadz06

2 жыл бұрын

Like what?! What in this clip do you miss?

@unknown55158

2 жыл бұрын

@@wackyadz06 all of it. Men were men, women were women. Then people like sue come along and blur the lines between the 2 in the name of modernity and equality and we end up in the state we are now. plenty of males, not enough men and same with the females.

@noire1001

2 жыл бұрын

@@unknown55158 How does any of that affect you in any way?

@hartleyhare3863

2 жыл бұрын

Good times☺Better than the multi - cultural shithole its become😍🤡

@ianmarshall9144

Жыл бұрын

I always read Road To Wigan Pier when feeling nostalgic . My grandfather was born just around 1900 , my father 1927 both said that life had got better and progress for the working man in conditions , pay and health care has led to a longer life expectancy more free time , maybe this winter will be like my childhood of the 70s , no electricity , piles of rubbish , little food and a demoralized nation ? Or the 80s recession , Thatchers greed and callousness and local societies breakdown ? I never miss the social and economic culture of my childhood , just the people that have passed .

More of a man then any of us will ever be

As we Aussies would say 'loveable larrakin'.

Proper man

Exactly the sort of bloke we need in this country now, somewhere about at Prime Minister level...

@commodoresixfour7478

6 жыл бұрын

JCBAirmaster73 It happened in America, it can also happen in Britton!!

@BlueXonar

4 жыл бұрын

@@commodoresixfour7478 You cannot be serious. Of all the stupid tripe I've read on here, you are comparing Dibnah to Trump? Wow.

@selfemployed1338

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueXonar obviously TRUMP isn't going to work hard with his hands and do MAN work, but TRUMP was right about a lot. He wasn't afraid to say what needed to be said, and that's why they hated him. They couldn't win debates about issues, so they resorted to name calling and making up lies. If you're not paying enough attention to see that, then you're a fool. TRUMP won in 2020, and will win in 2024.

@samhancock268

2 жыл бұрын

Why the fuck would you want a steeplejack as prime minister 😂😂😂

@johna6602

2 жыл бұрын

I don't know what he'd make of this rabble of buffoons in power today. He'd be spitin feathers!

KZread algorithm at it again, nice to see you all while I pass by 👋

Old school RIP matey 👍

I don't know who Sue is. I know who and what Fred was. He was great. An inspiration and joy to listen to.

Most potentially damaging thing is your man crosscutting the wood that way at the start 😂😂😂😂😂

Would you say " more people like Fred" and "Less people like Sue". ?

@PreservationEnthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

More people like Sue and less people like Fred. Fred was a wife beating old dinosaur with scant regard for health and safety.

@geoffbell166

3 жыл бұрын

@@PreservationEnthusiast Really,he managed to last all those years unscathed,doing all that laddering,people are scared of there own shadow nowdays,it shows by the snail pace work rate on jobs,forever having safety meetings,pathetic tossers.

@PreservationEnthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

@@geoffbell166 Well people can drink 5 pints of beer, drive a car, and not kill someone. It doesn't mean to say they should does it? Safety procedure in the end is about numbers. Sure you can do things and get away them. Sure it can take longer. But I think you would take a different approach if a member of your family was killed because safety rules were not followed. You would likely be the first person to demand why they had died, and what could be done to protect others in the same situation. Your glib attitude would soon be forgotten.

@geoffbell166

3 жыл бұрын

@@PreservationEnthusiast Oh yeah really,What dangerous work have you ever done??

@PreservationEnthusiast

3 жыл бұрын

@@geoffbell166 Your question is irrelevant to the subject of health and safety procedure. Clearly you have no answer to the point I made.

SUBSCRIBED. Is this the Chimney climber guy with ladder's ? He'll scale building's back in the old days ? These were the best times... Before Computers

@ryanklb

2 жыл бұрын

That’s him Yes!

"Drinking and smokiiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggg" 🤣🤣🤣

Sue definitely wants to speak to a manager.

I did not know Fred but from what I have seen of him on all of these videos and after reading his biography I have taken a dislike to his middle wife, Sue. She must have known what he was like and to try and change him is very annoying to me. He seems like one of the hardest working men you could meet and she is moaning about him not doing the pots. Also, he was not a rich man so why not let people buy the drinks if thats what they want to do? He deserved to get a little extra.

@commodoresixfour7478

6 жыл бұрын

jimbo99ful Good point, hell I would have been glad to trade a pint for just a minute of his time!

@eddiebirch2067

4 жыл бұрын

She was a social worker , make of that what you will

@peterherrington3300

2 жыл бұрын

Not a rich man ? Have you got any idea how much he earned for spending months knocking an enormous chimney down ? How about the cost of a steam engine or millions in TV work ? Gold digger from the start

@johna6602

2 жыл бұрын

I've just read she likes the old marchin powder. I'm awaiting further details...

Poor Fred... I rather go without mate.

Looks like we know where OFAH got the idea for Rodneys Kisandra.

At least she was honest! To the whole world.

I have been trained!

How to stop smoking, I never did. Fred dibnah rip

I have worked with some of Fred’s former employees- top blokes

Sad. Bladder cancer got him in the end, and that’s almost entirely caused by smoking.

@peterherrington3300

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing to do with a lifetime of shit & crap from filthy chimneys & steam engines then . . .

@geoffreycarson2311

2 жыл бұрын

THE TYRES !!!HE BURNT UNDER THE CHIMNEYS DEADLY CARSOGENIC FUMES !!!They Cause BLADDER and Lung CANCER 😣g

got his city and guilds in washing up....what a geezer.

She's slating him for being self centred but she's clearly with him For his fame and money

@russellking9762

2 жыл бұрын

typical woman….nothing to see there…whinging …whining …money grubber..shows their true side only after they have married you and/or had a kid to you…in other words once they are in a position that gives them a legal and sole claim to your estate and money regardless of whether they contributed to it or not…we loved Fred just the way he was… cigarettes …beer …stories..his hobbies…his work ethic..that was Fred…

@thesmiffable

2 жыл бұрын

Blah Blah Blah... I hate Women... Blah Blah BLah

@peterrenn6341

2 жыл бұрын

Nasty comment.

he's right you know. Washing the pots is the only way to get silicone out from under the fingernails.

I have been trained haha man can fel chimneys build steam engines but washing up is another challenge

"I don't have to pay my worker a big wage because he's a man of independant means" Oh yeah this is a top bloke I get why people like him...

Smoked like a chimney before, apparently.

What a gem old Fred was a real treasure & to get with a whining voice almost control freak woman fuck that he never should have got her it's right she needed a bloke that worked in an office banker solicitor spends his day knocking people for money not knocking chimneys down

She is breaking Fred like he chips away at the mighty stack. Soon there will be but a pile of ruble where strength once stood

Fred was fred,sue thought she could change his 'habits' only good thing she changed was the smoking just a pity she could not accept him as he was.

i have to confess i have done the washing up purly to get oil and grease out of my finger nails

Sue didn't like it up the chuff!

@eddiebirch2067

4 жыл бұрын

Fred was always polite and went round the tradesmans entrance

Dibnah memes for Industrial Revolution teens.

That's mental I just lit one

Just found this December 2022. I wonder if the original broadcast might have been a little seed of an idea of Feminism for all our Dads to think about (I'm 53)?

" when I first met him he had a few bad habits " get away, so did my rescue dog

ah yes ...................this is where we meet YOKO

Looker-afterer 🤣

How annoying is that woman? Great bloke Fred.

@noire1001

2 жыл бұрын

If he'd have met her sooner then maybe he wouldn't have got cancer and would still be with us.

Real life British Ron Swanson

Imagine colour o dish water when Frds had his hands in sink

That’s the mrs that left him isn’t it lol TTFN lovely 😂 God rest yer Fred.

Love Fred, but do feel sorry for the neighbour!

my right ear feels lonely 😩

I think his wife realised that manicures on Fred's nails weren't a good idea.

He helped with the dishwashing , did she climb up the chimney to give him a hand?

People bad mouth Sue, but I definitely would attribute great improvements in his life to her. People seek out and draw to themselves just what they need in life.

It cleans your fingernails anyway. 😂😂 Rip Fred good night x

3:55 wow

@cannonball7984

2 жыл бұрын

What?

Fred seems different as a non smoker, brighter some how...

@Its.My.Life.

4 жыл бұрын

Get a job

Spend your whole life doing hard graft the least a man needs is a smoke and a couple of jars

Where was you sue,when fred made his name ? where was you when he spent all them laborious hours knocking down,and climbing chimneys? I know were you were.scheming and sliding your way into freds life.

@Sarah-no7lv

4 жыл бұрын

andrew latchford women are mercenaries

@simonewing3752

4 жыл бұрын

She was about 12, that's exactly where she was.

@noire1001

2 жыл бұрын

@@simonewing3752 Good fucking point lol.

So who trained who to fill the modern day electronic dishwasher?

2:03 Savage roast. I bet he gave her a right good hiding when the cameras went off.

proper northern lad

The original steam punk

Take a happy man...add a quare one....search for happy man

why did these women come into his life and try to change him,or were they just after his brass

@Clodhopping

6 жыл бұрын

andrew latchford An old phrase my girlfriend taught me - read it phonetically: "Aisle altar hymn"...

Washing up IS the best way to clean your hands of grease and dirt, but still no excuse for her to make Fred do it.

How was Neil wealthy?

2:33 smookinnnnnnnnnnnnng

Freds a nice man but it must of been a nightmare living next 2 him ....constant noise banging at all times of a night ...pretty thoughtless of him

@benjic80

3 жыл бұрын

Why move next to Fred Dibnah if you don't like noise.

Definitely would be a nightmare living on the same street as him...😀😀

@peggykirk8562

Жыл бұрын

Sht I wood down there talking to em

no sound for me

A great mind but very poor choice of woman!

Good to see his wife running him down on national TV.