American Reacts to Fred Dibnah - British Steeplejack Takes Down a MASSIVE Chimney
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@BerlietGBC Жыл бұрын
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
@stevemorris6855 Жыл бұрын
Everything old Fred did with ladders, planks and chimneys scared the crap out of me. Legend.🇬🇧
@tonyorome Жыл бұрын
Me too
@srowanmp59 6 ай бұрын
Born before his time..RIP Fred you Legend 🙏🏻
@anthonytaylor7590 24 күн бұрын
Balls of steel lad balls of steel
@CEP73 Жыл бұрын
They don't make 'em like they used to!! A real brave, patient, craftsman.
@Alan.Moffat Жыл бұрын
Hardy old English man....... respect. From Scotland
@mrorinocobottle9371 20 күн бұрын
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 KZfaq. Peace to all.
@annalieff-saxby568 11 ай бұрын
A British National Treasure, and a man with nerves of steel.
@annemariefleming Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
£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.
@Andyb2379 Жыл бұрын
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.
@martinbobfrank Жыл бұрын
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.
@Finny14754 27 күн бұрын
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 27 күн бұрын
Wey aye man . 🧱
@daviddogsbody Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
😂
@maxpowerii7368 Жыл бұрын
😂 of course what 10 year old girl doesn’t want a pillar drill in her bedroom…
@AlanCanon2222 Жыл бұрын
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.
@user-zk8px7xt7t 22 күн бұрын
Fred has unbelievable nerve and muscle endurance, what a guy.
@Michel-7.7.7 Жыл бұрын
The most astonishing fact is, he build the ladders, the platform and mounted it by himself with rooes and pulleys
@lestorhaslam Жыл бұрын
Have a look at Fred Dibnah putting the ladder and scaffolding on a chimney single handed, that’s even more amazing.
@Isleofskye Жыл бұрын
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 KZfaq) 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.
@NPA1001 Ай бұрын
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”
@eddyd2647 9 күн бұрын
Fred is a national treasure
@mervinmannas7671 Жыл бұрын
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.
@charliecosta3971 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
There's plenty of Fred Dibnah videos on KZfaq. Fred did dismantle the chimney by hand. Fred Dibnah is a British legend.
@ianhampton6856 Жыл бұрын
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.
@zibbezabba2491 Жыл бұрын
£7000 in the 1980s. That would have been about $12,000. You're spot on. About $50,000 in today's money.
@officialcammmreacts Жыл бұрын
😳🤯 wow!
@zibbezabba2491 Жыл бұрын
@@officialcammmreacts I wouldn't do what he does, not even for 10 times that amount 😆
@englishpassport6590 11 ай бұрын
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.
@Levenstone132 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@haveaniceday7016 he's a pure 🤡 can't him seriously at all
@TheHarrip Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@@criticalthinker6076 okay
@criticalthinker6076 Жыл бұрын
@@TheHarrip ye I know because it's a fact
@peterslim6415 11 күн бұрын
Let's not forget, that Fred was also a great engineer .
@outlawking4106 Жыл бұрын
£7000 in 1979 would be worth £45,500($54,900) in today’s money
@helensamuel9913 Жыл бұрын
MISS FRED LOVED HOW HE KEPT TO HIS ROOTS SO FUNNY AND BRAVE
@bernardmcmahon351 Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed your reaction, 👍 Fred was very clever, brave and amazingly lovely
@stevenknight1198 12 күн бұрын
Incase you didnt realise, he put all that ladderwork up himself, without any harnesses
@davidwalsh6608 Жыл бұрын
That is an Englishman 20 woodbines and balls of cast Brass
@stevetokeley6542 Жыл бұрын
He put the ladders and scaffolding up too.
@stevencraig1871 Жыл бұрын
He was a machine!!
@clairewilson332 Жыл бұрын
Loved your reaction to this Fred was a star.
@El_Gormo Жыл бұрын
KZfaq now purely consists of Americans watching Fred Dibnah…watched by people
@oldskoolordie Жыл бұрын
Dibception
@El_Gormo Жыл бұрын
@@oldskoolordie The Dibonacci rule…
@martincotty Жыл бұрын
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 💪
@funnyfacestudio Жыл бұрын
He mentions a young man might not have the patience as you skipped the video.
@paulallaker8450 Жыл бұрын
The bricks would have been reclaimed and used again. Fred is a legend. 💪
@beatonthedonis Жыл бұрын
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.
@paulfarrer3628 11 күн бұрын
He was an amazing guy👍👍
@bsasteve Жыл бұрын
Fred got that chimney down, Fred is a legend here in the UK
@chrismccartney8668 Жыл бұрын
A legend so skilled and he took down hundreds of chimneys of which there were many chimneys..
@borntoclimb7116 15 күн бұрын
As a urban climber, i like those videos. It is Impressive but for a pro climber, climb a ladder is easy.
@Mickbono06 5 ай бұрын
The man was and is a legend, done everything the old proper way. You want to see his other videos on you tube.
@rosweaver70 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
@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.
@069gypsy Жыл бұрын
he took the lot down fred was brilliant
@damedusa5107 10 ай бұрын
7000 pounds was a lot more than you think back when this was recorded
@gary71161 Жыл бұрын
he knocked it all down
@Quato177 Жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
Turn your volume up for yourself, missing the reaction in the mix. Fred' was a complete legend.
@steamfandan9682 Жыл бұрын
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
@janetburrows137 10 ай бұрын
He’s going too the top . ❤❤
@happilyeggs4627 Жыл бұрын
7000 pounds. Equivalent to about 70000 pounds at todays rates.
@douglastodd1947 Жыл бұрын
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.
@rcordiner Жыл бұрын
Fred took down a chimney stack in my home town and he would autograph bricks for everyone.
@mradriankool Жыл бұрын
Fred had to upgrade the suspension on his Land Rover to carry his massive balls around
@janetburrows137 10 ай бұрын
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. ❤❤
@jome7382 Жыл бұрын
Another British legend (called Fred 😉)
@martinlandy8199 Жыл бұрын
Fred is a true brit with true grit... my hero
@Bluetoothedshark 13 күн бұрын
Back then in that location, Fred could have bought 2 houses with £7000.
@liberalmatt Жыл бұрын
Shaw, Lancashire.
@fernbracken Жыл бұрын
i loved this black guy hes so natural lol
@Tony-xj2rc 8 ай бұрын
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!.
@duncanhill3953 Жыл бұрын
He had a enormous pair.
@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh 11 ай бұрын
What can I say us Brits are pretty cool
@mathewleese3771 4 ай бұрын
My grandfather new him 😊 he said was lovely gentleman
@superflyjimmysnucka9068 Жыл бұрын
Old Fred liked a few pints of beer before he climbed as well!
@steerpike50 Жыл бұрын
Real men don't carry guns they knock chimneys down lol Fred was a ninja workman.
@keeganjacobs5913 Жыл бұрын
hes a OG.
@cypher9874 Жыл бұрын
7000 pounds in the 70s was mega money to a normal working class person
@lestorhaslam Жыл бұрын
Have a look too at the B.B.C.’s Blue Peter presenter, John Noakes climbing Nelson’s Column.
@martynashwood881 Жыл бұрын
John Noakes was a one off, he once held the record for the highest civilian freefall parachute jump.
@Run187 17 күн бұрын
7000 in 1979 Is 44,384.58 today ..
@nahomsolomon7317 Жыл бұрын
Sick vid bro
@stuartstretton6894 Жыл бұрын
£7000 in 1970s = £50,000+ nowadays. Love the video 💯👍🤓
@Ian20232 7 ай бұрын
£7000 in 1979 would be around £50,000 in 2023
@ianmclaughlin4043 Жыл бұрын
Fred must've been good at jenga
@barryhowes4799 Жыл бұрын
come visit the U.K. bro you'll have a blast
@marcus3060 Жыл бұрын
Fred was the man of men
@lucylane7397 Жыл бұрын
Definitely tea
@philsmith7343 Жыл бұрын
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.
@janetburrows137 10 ай бұрын
He had too put two setts of ladders up to. Find one we’re he’s laddering a chimney. 😅😅😂❤❤❤❤🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️
@saxon-mt5by Ай бұрын
And don't forget as he demolishes the chimney he has to keep removing and re-installing the staging.
@kevinworrall231 Жыл бұрын
Back in the day this is how things we're done
@Agzeno Жыл бұрын
7 thousand pounds he said in the 70's that Would have been like 30k plus today
@andrewdaley5480 Жыл бұрын
Its a lot more than that your way off. 🇬🇧 😁
@Agzeno Жыл бұрын
@@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 Жыл бұрын
50k
@andrewdaley5480 Жыл бұрын
@@Ben-ks5bm less about 43 thousand pounds. 🇬🇧
@aristonia1991 9 ай бұрын
Brick by brick? there's not enough money in the world where i would do this.
@timmonk7973 4 ай бұрын
£7000 then is about 50.000 USD today.
@agnar9036 9 ай бұрын
people in this day and age bitch about work this man will put anyone in there place any time hes a legend
@janetburrows137 10 ай бұрын
This is 1979. 😂😂😂❤
@justMe-qp8jv Жыл бұрын
Like my💯 grandfather balls of steel
@williampatrickfagan7590 Жыл бұрын
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.
@billparry7058 11 күн бұрын
Sadly they don't make them like Fred anymore 🇬🇧🇬🇧
@andyward8336 Жыл бұрын
£ 7000 in the 1970s is about $ 39000 .
@davidberesford7009 Жыл бұрын
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@janetburrows137 10 ай бұрын
It’s 300ft chimney ❤❤❤
@paulhadfield7909 Жыл бұрын
he does another where he fells a chimeny in one go
@arfurwitt6221 11 ай бұрын
Didn’t Fred realise how dangerous it was to smoke cigarettes?
@martincotty Жыл бұрын
Plenty of episodes where he takes them down ...he died in 2004 I think ...
@jamiewilson9280 Ай бұрын
I always wonder who the cameraman was who went up there with him.
@user-gj3di1rf6k 20 күн бұрын
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
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