Fred Dibnah - How to Ladder a Chimney
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- Опубликовано: 1 мар 2023
- Step back in time with this classic video featuring the fearless steeplejack that was Fred Dibnah.
Watch as he fearlessly ascends a towering chimney with a ladder - a demonstration of his incredible craftsmanship and unwavering spirit. Join us for a glimpse into the world of a true master craftsman. Fred Dibnah's passion and skill were on full display in this iconic moment. Enjoy the climb!
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What a man, His likes will never be seen again, Rest In Peace Fred
That's right that! Fred is a national treasure!
What happened to this country,,why has this type of Man disappeared. There should be a monument to this Great man.
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.
More important stuff like electricians, plumbers or workers on the road fixing our infrastructure.
Every time I watch Fred, I can't help but think: "a working class hero is something to be"
Well said.
But lot of deaths in the past and the Most peoples dont want this fact.
@@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.
@@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
@@borntoclimb7116 True but Fred encapsulates working class vibes like none other
'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!!
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.
This is Impressive but watch Alain Robert
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.😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@christiansfortruth5953 in many 3rd world countries they Work Like this today
@@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!!!
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
haha "that's where the beer belly comes in handy". what a man
The heart and arms of a Lion!!
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.
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.
All I can say is LEGEND !! 🙃
Balls of steel this man had
This bloke was seriously mental. No sane person would this. Amazing guy.
One of my heroes. Cut from different cloth.
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!
I get vertigo sitting on the sofa just watching this😂
Crazy what he did and how he did it.
Great video!
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?
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
What a brave hero,unbelievable bloke.
Legend. Absolute legend! ⭐️
Health and safety feared Fred and just left him alone
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’m shitting myself watching it😱
Stumbled across this. Glad I did - fascinating…
Did you happen to notice the other Fred Dibnah videos we have too.
Another great video
Old Fred must have been quite physically fit to do this day in day out.
The camera man in the skylift probally shitting his pants.and then there is. Fred just sitting on his ladder explaning hisnwork
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!
I myself have a three step and it's terrifying..
Well done.
A national treasure
Legend!
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.
Bloody crazy 😧😧
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 ❤
Brilliant 👏🏻 ow hes just avin a chat while up there
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 🙏
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.
Its amazing the whole thing is held steady by the one guy on the ground
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.
The videos are better without music
God bless the lift equipmentzzzz
Ena Mill is across the road from me I’ve seen Fred here.
Now here's a man who knows how to handle a hammer.
I wonder how Fred laddered the 2 overhangs on India Mill Chimney, Darwen.
Are the ladders timber?
Yes
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. 😊😊😊😊😊
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% 😂
Wonder how many times he has hit his hand with that hammer
He’s got some massive balls
Would it be possible for the chimney owner have ladders fixed full time
Modern materials yes, when these monsters were built not a chance they would be usable and safe.
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
You can have Spider-Man. I’ll have Fred…
my question is How many ladders did Fred own? and did they all go on that Land Rover defender ??
Until 1986, Fred owned all of the ladders in the North of England.
Never be another like Fred. The guys in the lift are like..quit rocking, dont move
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.
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
An all ameriBritish Hero
There is something very Monty Python on this video...
Why didn't they leave the dogs in permanently?
The plug wood holding them in would rot. And he could use them again on the next chimney.
Why didn’t he just hire one of them machines that was filming him 😮
Man had nerves
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!
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.
Next time:
How to ladder a stocking.
annoying music added. probably to get around copyright bots.
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
No...nope....no way.
Why did you have to add that annoying music?
This shit freaks me out. No ppe yikes
Why ard the crap piano music?
Don’t forget: diversity built Britain.
Just shows you not all "clinically insane people " are dangerous
Beats a banana tree climber into the education