Wow is that true , It’s scary how time has flown by , Fred was some man

Where is this church?

@@fistfulofgamepad St Anne's Church in Turton, Lancashire

I am 34 and this guy is also one of my heroes. They don't make them like this anymore. What a guy, RIP Fred

My hero too.... Some man for one man

I am sixty five and I feel the same.

Yes me too . I’m 50 and an ex hod carrier. Doing ok now but I remember the toil of manual Labour, walking on scaffolds and up ladders with a hod of bricks. Fred was/is a hero to me. A great man..

Fred is a rock star

I couldn’t make out the reply but that’s a classic

really i would of loved to of met him a true legend

Fred has Go muscles not show muscles... 😉

@@cdmChase1 Reminds me of the comment. Just think that after you’ve just finished a heavy 2 hour session in the gym a manual labourer is half way through his first shift.

@@geoffroberts201 whats your point?

@@cdmChase1 Labourers have go muscles that keep working all day not show gym muscles

D

Yes, I am; erwootton@gmail.com

Edmund Wootton im from tockholes

Edmund Wootton iiiiiiiii

I'm an American and I think he's pretty bad ass and a stand up guy too!

I'm from Bolton, sadly the old fella's in flat caps long gone, the cotton mills either got demolished or made into apartment blocks.

I could not disagree

Just had a look on Google Earth and that weather cock is still up there! Amazing

What a beautiful image you've just created in my head.. 👍

Wow brought tears to my eyes that ❤️

U're a poet, man.

Nice one. I'll nick that if I may.

you need a "ya know" on the end of that and its perfect

My grandpa was ah special bloke, he would walk the top of the smoke stack at 210 like he was at the beach, no man would dear follow him up the ladder on a smoke stack. NEVER

Lol! He doesn't let it bother him.

yes I know what you mean

I think he reached it with his Ladders.

Does someone want to tell Bob heaven and religion is the biggest load of bullshit the universe has ever heard? FACT!!!

@@Bulldog1878 behave yourself

@@popejulianis1701 or what dipshit?

@@Bulldog1878 deep problems huh? Get some help bud, it'll get better.

😂😂

Good ole Donald was dead witty too 😂😂😂

To be fair, workplace safety has resulted in a drastic reduction in workplace injuries in the past few decades. Fred was in a trade where he did not have to rely on many other working along side him so he could afford to take a few risks without risking many others at the same time. Most modern construction sites are so complex that without safety rules and coordination, there would be unacceptable risks for workers - most of which are not nearly as skilled as Fred (not to say that even the lowest skilled construction workers aren't hard workers - most work far harder than any office worker).

@@mjstecyk laziness is the main cause of workplace injuries, and common sense brings down that statistic, H&S just slows down the economy.

Utter bollocks I reckon

Why use language like that when children might read it ?

@James Smith , What nonsense. The internet is the greatest learning facility since the creation of public libraries. PBS Spacetime - for physics and cosmology DW, France 24, and Al-Jazeera for world events And take a look at my channel for interesting history videos.

​ @vinm300 Imagine down playing someones comment just to self advertise your own channel

They'd have to use a full scaffold, and not just for safety reasons...listed building consent says that you cannot drive pins or drill into the wall face and damage the ashlar...therefore Fred's laddering system wouldn't work. Sign of the times....

Cringe

leoleebird evallativa is his museum closing

evo4aps yes they say they don't have money to keep it open...all politics and bullshit this man is a legend and an artist and all generation's should know about him for them to close his museum is down right criminal...

That just made me very sad and angry to hear that, I get very nostalgic when I watch Fred Dibnah...I wish I knew him, but I know a few quite like him and they are the most reliable people you could ever meet...solid!

@@leoleebirdevallativa8252 Oh no, didn't know that. I volunteer in a museum down here in Cornwall and last year we had a couple come in from Bolton and I asked them about the Fred Dibnah museum (which I'd like to see). It was open then. They should keep it open, it's a part of our heritage.

I didn't even know he had a museum I would of loved to see that. I take it they had his old stem engines? He had some cool hobbys

You say that like it's a bad thing.

And a hard hat lol.

And watch a yearly refresher video on how not to fall off and who to contact if it does.

Balls of brass

Nah he straight, it’s the ladder being angled

Yeah he's really amazing hes got guts thats for sure.

so many millions work without health in the eastern countrys or in brazil and so many people dying every year, just look quatar.

@@borntoclimb7116 Yes you are right, of course. We often forget that. I guess Fred chose to work the way he did but having no choice must be horrendous and extremely dangerous. Good point.

@@jfro5867 thats right, fred is a interesting Person. Interesting to, in the past more people in the uk died or getting bad injured and no one cares, those peoples are forgotten

No one who is okay with being ordinary feels the need to join Mensa.

Irony is the camera man used a mechanical working platform to film Fred and didn't risk his life like Fred. Same as everybody else who overtook him professionally and used tech to their advantage. He wasn't that clever. PS nice na mee dropping about mensa ..same comment.

@@thespamdance311 yeah, your right. He sounds like an attention seeking baby.

@@karlmeyer9473 you sound bitter about it

👶🏻gee geee gaaa gaaa goo geee 👶🏻

Exchanging nerves with balls would be more accurate

Yeah....fuck it lets not have any industrial safety because that way you're a man. "Hi honey, only lost a leg today at work but at least I didn't spend half a day with the undertaker because I'm a man!!!!"" "Oh yes dear!!!"

@@karlmeyer9473 The people here in the comments, treating modern safety standards as if they're not a massive improvement for the quality of life for workers, are complete morons. Funny how "Common sense" varies from person to person. I'd not trust my life to these idiots.

@@karlmeyer9473 "Safety first", and goodness last.

@@karlmeyer9473 har har.

So why didn't fuckwit Fred just use the hydraulic lift that the cameraman used??

Those sounds are fake.

@@karlmeyer9473 xD lol!!

FOO45 hopefully he got his wish from in this video

FOO45.... and only a young 66. 1938-2004. RIP Fred.

@@simonoconor8149 how did he past away ? During ajob ?

+zeeaars.... no not on the job, to the best of my knowledge it was a form of cancer.

@@simonoconor8149 Yeah, he claimed he got it because of all the chimney smoke he inhaled throughout his career.

at least he's honest

I was hoping to see the old one, lightning and all. It can be fun reading the comments to fill in parts I did not understand. The weather cock represents the Taurid Stream that seems to radiate from the aves of the Pleiades. A reminder of the dinosaurs...

The cameraman was usually on a crane .

Never thought of that lol

LMFAO!

And a damn sight more free...

On the contrary, Fred was the last of the moulds from the Victorian era......those guys don’t exist today. A true tradesman, character and gentleman. His hero was Isambard Kingdom Brunel.

Fred then proceeded to fix the mould.

No shit sherlock

neons the vicar was probably knocking the choirboys off

0:42 "Gorguyrles"

@Al Morrison no the vicar was getting stuck in to the boys

Yeah reminded me of Only fools and horses the Cheeky git .

That makes no sense..

@@Ethan-xf4or heaven is portrayed to be in the sky. If you cant understand that then you probably sit on the sunshine bus and lick windows.

We all know Fred had balls like melons lol but I agree the cameraman is a braver soul than me. On some of his chimney climbs the camera is on a crane, but this one is clearly handheld.

@@triggeringliberals405 this was filmed way before militaries had drones, much less TV studios

Jordan Wht There’s always that one who either totally doesn’t get the joke or just feels so compelled to teach someone that they have to “correct” them. LOL

@@triggeringliberals405 😂👍

@@triggeringliberals405 Lad

I'm a stonemason and met Fred when he did a program at York minster...what a great bloke he was...cracking sense of humour. Wore his flat cap under the hard hat we had to supply...he wasn't arsed one bit. He was telling us about his Mrs and she was going mad about a 'shaft' he'd dug in the garden....she says "fill it in or I'm leaving you"....he just said "am I heckers like filling it in" and she left ....good old Fred. A real life legend!!!!!

He's wife said he had big balls too and she didn't mind.😂

@@paulcooper5748 ha ha

@@anthonyward6805 No disrespect to fred the man was awesome.

@@paulcooper5748 I know mate

Micky Tandoori I think of that comment when I am out grafting “ my mind wanders to more pleasant things “

dragonfitter Fred won’t be paying for the families grocery’s of the man who has a preventable work place accident and can’t work for three years. Shut the fuck up and have respect for worker safety

+sma94 haha nations were built off the backs of men with balls like Fred Can you still say same in nowadays health and safety mad world ? Methinks not

Not true, a lot of jobs these days require free climbing, Tower Climbing for example.

Don't knock health and safety , if you were around a hundred years ago and saw how many people died at work you would see how important it is.

syd ----- feck off . lol

Who was the camera man ?! I remember John Noakes climbing up Nelson's column -nobody seems to think about the camera man who had to go up with him ! And they probably got nothing extra for the risk (like John Noakes !!)

Laugh is this would have had scaffolding to do this sort of job now i would have thought. Due to health and safety.