FIRST TIME REACTING TO | 1982: FRED DIBNAH shows HOW to erect a CHIMNEY SCAFFOLD at 200 feet!
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@pauldurkee4764 · 3 months ago (edited)
Fred was a British working class hero, hardworking, dependable, funny, stoic and hard as nails.<br>His accent is Lancastrian, from the north of england, he was from Bolton so I take it as distinctive to that area.
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@TheDobbins39 · 3 months ago
Wish u watched them in order. <br>1. Putting up the ladder<br>2 putting up the scaffolding <br>3. Taking the chimney apart brick by brick.
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@wesleyrodgers886 · 4 months ago
It's a bolton accent. (Bolton lancashire, Northern England).
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@WithTwoFlakes · 3 months ago
Balls of steel doesn't even begin to describe folks like Fred. He was a British institution. I was starting my final year at college when the BBC first broadcast these. It was must-see television.
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@5858blue · 3 months ago
Fred is a National Treasure. His tv shows are amongst the most viewed. He was awarded an MBE by Her Majesty The Queen and when he passed a statue was erected in his honour
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@kenny832 · 3 months ago
The subtitles can't handle his Bolton accent! - getting his "bosun's chair up" get's subtitled as getting his "Boston churro"!
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@jennywren7822 · 3 months ago
Theres a lot of half hour programes, he filmed for the BBC before he died, he was on BBC2 then, l used to watch them every week.<br>He was a british treasure, loved by many.<br>He died of cancer, not from smoking, in his 60s, his funeral was filmed and shown on BBC2.<br>His love was anything steam, he built a steam roller and another smaller engine.<br>Well worth watching if only in your spare time.<br>Well done ❤
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@timg5011 · 4 months ago
Next, you should watch a video about how he gets the ladders onto the chimney.
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@NeilGilbert-y7j4e · 3 months ago (edited)
America had superman England had Fred Dibnah is from Bolton he's a legend RIP FRED DIBNAH<br>The cameraman is on a lift thats on a vehicle<br>He also takes down a massive chimney with fire thats a good one to watch
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@pauldurkee4764 · 3 months ago
Don't know if you noticed, climbing that chimney, he's already put up the ladders on both sides, he does that himself, securing each section of ladder at a time.
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@stevehartley7504 · 3 months ago
Watch Fred drop a chimney using fire and falling exactly where he wants it to fall. No explosives
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@richardgoddard37 · 3 months ago (edited)
Fred was an absolute legend. Steeplejacks were the guys you sent to the top of cathedrals and churches (usually a steeple) and they sort of branched out when very tall chimneys were built a bit later. They are definitely built differently.
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