Im so glad someone had the foresight to film these for future generations. I often think of what we could have witnessed if film was invented 150 year earlier.
So many techniques used and tricks known will have been lost to time throughout the history of engineering and construction. We have relied on machines for centuries, and have done away with almost all manual labour, therefore losing our understanding for it.
I love Fred Dibnah. He was one of my television heroes growing up. I was born in 1963 and im now 60. When i see all theses young lads running about having fun it reminds me of how i grew up. Those were far better times. I still love watching his programme repeats on TV.
Had a 100% record for climbing up them and bringing them down, what a man and his knowledge of all things engineering was a thing to behold. R I P Fred, we'll never see your like again.
Funny you say that. About 20+ years ago I worked with an old pipe fitter in the US named Jack. He reminds me of Fred. He was in his 60s and worked as hard or even harder than us at 30ish. On his weekends he would drive his motor cycle 600 miles each way with his wife on the back just for a ride and one night stay. He was a real throwback. I am 52 and an electrician. I look back on the things I did and wonder how I am still alive. Playing with 2000 amps 480 volt panels live, making up live 1200 amp 480 volt cables live in boxes. Shocks happened every day more than once. I would show my wife the black and blues and burns I got. Set my shirts on fire a few times. Now It is all hard hats, lock out tag out, eye protection, ear protection etc. We shot pins with a .22 into 1/2 inch steel. I just turned my head so it would not hit me in the face. Strange how much things have changed.
@@StanSwan Yeah, thank god. All very well not bothering with PPE and working on live stuff to save a few mins. At least we’re all safe now. We’ve been saved from ourselves 😅
@@2Sorts lol lots of accidents happening in the past, there is way more Dangerous stuff than fred dibnah work, look all the deaths during the work with big machines in factorys, deaths during work with acid or flambable fluids.
Fred is the sort of person from Britain that established America Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and built their past industries , a true working class genuine working man , the salt of the earth which are sorely missing today .
@@mjstecyk Thier not racists..we Brits built nothing .it was already there . look into it...the paracites know this ..these two either know oi are useful idiots..
In the 70s there weren't many working class heroes that the working man could look up to on the TV, this man broke down the social barriers "class system that dominated the TV in the 60s and 70s" , Fred dibnah is a national treasure and an inspiration to us all that had the pleasure to watch him over the years!
Absolutely brilliant. No health and safety. Brings a building down with a box of matches, almost gets hit by the building and has to run away as it collapses, then the locals from the council estate go and play on the still burning rubble, melting rubber, asbestos still very much filling the air they breath. Fred lights a cig and is off to the pub dressed in his work clothes - a shirt and cardigan.
Good times back then , when I was a teen i lived in Oldham and watched Fred demolish a mill chimney using this method of propping and burning , he was a true working class hero......RIP Fred
This is a real working man who didn’t have paper qualifications but was a superb steeplejack and a multi skilled, self taught engineer! Nowadays, young folk come out of college and know bugger all!
His previous job didnt go to plan as he stated. Theres a reason you get special degrees in these type of jobs, you could easily die from 1 simple mistake. Other than that I do admire this man every very very much!!! But the amount of deaths that have been prevented from these jobs is huge, every single life saved is a blessing. Not a single soul deserves to go to work and never return home, so I am in favour of these rules.
Sure it happening in my countrie Germany, no joke if a tall radio tower got demolished and the autoritys givve the permission, the folk kann watch the site, this is a long Tradition here even today.
Fred we miss you....luckily your captured on film forever to watch again and again( I one of them!)with your passion and educated professional presentations are brilliant. We see you maturing through your life and enthusiasm for new projects, meeting other characters along the way who you touched with your stories,drawings,back garden projects,steeple jacking,and having a pint! 🍻cheers Fred RIP....best wishes to your family. 👏👏👏👏👍🏴😉
I can remember watching these programs when I was growing up. Fred never ceased to amaze me. You will never find another like him, he was a one off... 👍
A fearless genius who i watched on tv when i was young. A master at what he did and a great enthusiast of steam power and the old hardworkiing industrial days in the UK. From climbing isolated industrial chimneys hundreds of feet high, repairing church spires and demolishing tall structures ...... a true insperation.
Ah the good old days when kids could take part in exciting events and learn something with physical activity. Stacking tires, exploring around a dilapidated building, starting a fire, breathing toxic smoke, walking over the still burning rubble, now they sit on a couch playing with their phones. Lol
Kids in Chorley Lancs did exactly that when they burned the old Chortex Mill down in 1985 They put a load of old tires on the top floor set them alight which then burned through four floors The fire was that bad it leveled the hole building
Ah for the good old days, when we took unnecessary risks with others lives and wellbeing, no one would bring a civil claim for negligence and we avoided all that paperwork.
Ricky, fair point but the nanny state has gone too far. I remember a very different world when I was a kid back in the 80s, not so long ago and half the things we did then we couldn't even do now. Sometimes we got hurt, we had accidents, but we learned and frankly were better for it.
Superb engineering principal. On the slow motion you can clearly see her standing on the stairwell props for a fraction until they failed.Impressive stuff .Cheers!
A man who didn’t consider himself second to other men or women or children….no swearing ,a bit rough around the edges but a right jewel of a person……I so miss my pop when I watch Fred movies …I only watch for his grin and his laugh…..everything else is just gravy on mash.
@@martinhowe3679 Terrible Health and Safety. Kids playing on demo site. Unsafe method etc. Dibnah received cease and decist notice from HSE after this demolition.
@@user-zw8hb7zm5u If the people of the North are so fantastic, how come it is such a disaster area full of poverty. The people in London are clearly much more intelligent and hard working.
Ah, back when the world was real and not run by risk assessing, hand wringing, namby pamby silk skinned degree holders. We have thrown away an awful lot in the last 35yrs. Heaven help us if we get in a real jam as no one can do any real work now, they all need a computer to tell them what to do ! RIP Fred, end of an era & way of life.
I was working on building sites just as the rules were all coming into force and restrictions got heavy. This was back in 2002-2004 kind of time. I was a young lad of 18 or 19, and I was able to use Stihl saws, drive a dumper and operate a minidigger on site, without tickets, just supervision. These days, I wouldn't even be able to enter a building site to just sweep the floor, nevermind actually do any work! The attitude back then was "how are young lads going to learn anything, if they can't use the equipment?" There were meant to be official training courses for this stuff, but it was still informal at this point. Nowadays it's essential, and unthinkable that someone could use any equipment without a risk assessment and a daytraining course.
Sure have thrown away an awful lot - of lives. As someone who does a lot of 'real work' - I hope I never run into you on site. Every worker should know they'll get home after work.
@@alenyaclassic well said. All these boomers pining for a Britian that never existed need a reality check. They probably think miners shouldn't sue for vibration white finger, and shipbuilders should shut up about asbestosis, and deformed children should shut up about thalidomide. Just a few results of the "golden age" before "elf and safety'.
I was around 12/13 years old , didn't speak to him there but a year after I met him and got a handshake ! Lol , I was a volunteer at Bolton steam museum, taking the admission money when he turned up . My grandad also got me his autograph when he sold Fred a load of coal he didn't need anymore, but it's lost now bah, regards Chris 😊
@@damo0666 www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/history/historical-picture.pdf Just about 700 reported killed on the job in 1974 down to about 150 in 2018 (keep in mind both population and workforce have grown in number). Nowadays the most common cause of workplace death is "falls from a height", while "struck by a moving object" is 3rd on the list, both of these seem like high risks for a guy like Fred doing the work he did. This doesn't even count people affected by respiratory issues from breathing in dust, asbestos and etc from the job site. You see more people with clipboards on the job site these days because most jobs have gotten substantially more complex and require specialized labour to reliably undertake them.
I get where you're coming from with this and I consider Fred part of a 'better' generation, but the H&S laws we have now have really improved working conditions. My dad told me stories of how blokes literally lost eyes, arms and fingers working in the 1960s when if there had been basic safety the accidents could have been avoided!
A spectacular job done here by Fred, one of my favourite videos of his demolition work. Took some real nerve inserting those supports inside, & not a hard hat in sight!...GREAT!
Respekt aus Deutschland für diesen Mann.Er erinnert mich an die alten Bauarbeiter und Schlosser in der DDR ,welche noch schmutzige Hände durch ehrliche Arbeit hatten.
Making the building structurally unsafe, then happily strutting around inside the building, making sure it really is completely unsafe. The world does not see any Fred Dibnah's anymore!
Then inviting children to mill around the unsafe building. Boy would he be the heel of Britain if that thing came down prematurely and killed a few kids
@@scottkasper6378 to be fair it was his job to bring it down not to control the crowds 🤷♂️ that was what the police and site security should have been doing
These days " skilled " is used to much , but this was a skilled man , used to watch him on an old 4 channel tv with fred on in the week , talking about steam
Fred was one of the last decent, patriotic and dignified true British gentlemen. There are few, if any, men similar or equal to the late Fred Dibnah!!!
It’s great to see kids working on a demolition site, these days Fred would of been arrested for child abuse, kids these days just sit in front of a computer getting fat.
Boomers these days just sit on TH-cam yearning for a time that never existed, making stupid comments about health and safety and generalisations about the youth of today.
When you get a quiet moment mate. Have a look at the figures of people killed and seriously injured in the construction industry back in the ‘good ol days’ compared with today.
There are opinions on both sides about Health & Safety. I was an apprentice in a machine shop when I was 17. This was way back when long hair was all the rage. I once saw a young lad with long blond hair using a bench drill. Supposedly he should have been wearing one of those safety caps to restrain long hair but I'm unsure if he actually was. He leaned down and over to look at the progress of the job and that was when his hair became instantly entangled with the chuck. All I saw was him rearing back in a daze of total shock and one side of his head was completely bald. Two of his workmates grabbed him and held on to him otherwise he would have keeled over on the workshop floor and cracked his head wide open on top of the original injury. H&S is there for a reason but you can't put an old head on young shoulders.
Your right bud but it's the interpretation of H&S that gets mixed up and over zealous enforcers make it turn ridiculous. Being safe in anything you do and keeping others safe is a good thing. They used to call it bonkers conkers a while back because even teachers got on the bandwagon banning conkers in the playground ! But it's all about the common sense interpretation that makes it work. I had similar experience with a lad as an apprentice in another training group that was on the lathes. He was a 'new romantic type who 'had' a long left side quiff. Fell out of his hairnet and ended up flying round chuck at 3500 rpm ! 😯😯😯
My brother got sacked from a engineering factory in the 70s because he refused to have his long hair cut, he did regret it the next day when my dad give him a good hiding and took him to the barbers next day for a short back and sides, he's never lost a job since, Fred and his likes are sorely missed
Can’t burn tyres nowadays let alone all of the other stuff in this classic footage. No hard hats, no Hi viz vests, no proper exclusion zone and everyone enjoying themselves watching a master craftsman at work. He is the reason I suffer from vertigo still! 😁
Fred learnt his technique based on the writings and calculations of the weight bearing strength of timber props of Aneurin Bevan's little book "Timber in Mining" From the old days when roof and roadway,also face in a coal mine was supported by timber,not steel or hydraulic chocks.
Much preferred to have his old used dirty bowls for his peeled potatoes when on the march in his jolly steam roller, never mind what his woman thought about.
I have to say, that was shocking to me. That a man could put a jack hammer to the foundation of a building and foot by foot replace it with timbers and never fear that he could die in the process
Virtually perfect felling job. I don’t know if he wanted it to fall sideways or straight down upon itself….but either way, it was a great result 👍 And i agree, Fred was a very special man. It’ll be hard to find another like him❤️🙏😞
Good stuff. The stairwell props were bending. Imagine taking that tower down with chisel, props, wedges and fire. I would soon be cracking a bottle of scotch frankly.Legend.
Love the old stuff. We had no health and safety back then. We done things that the young would never do today. I drove bulldozers at age 9 and helped knock down a buildings houses ect. Best years plus world was nicer place back then.
Back in 2001 I had the opportunity to do some remodel work on an old two story timber frame home. The floor had a terrible sag at the center of the building where an old stove went up to a half chimney on the second floor. I had a 20 ton Jack in the basement on some main beams and I jacked and stacked dunnage for hours. The sag in the floor was getting pretty flat when I noticed daylight peeking in most of the way around the top of the entire basement wall. I did some closer inspection and realized I was lifting the entire house. I let it back down a few inches and placed a piece of cedar telephone pole in the center to keep the floor a little better than it was.
Fred Dinbah Environmental and Safety , has a good ring as a company name. No disrepect to the man, just trying to imagine telling city council in these times "I intend to use old telephone poles as my primary supports and light a tyre fire as my means of demolition"". Times have changed.
Im so glad someone had the foresight to film these for future generations. I often think of what we could have witnessed if film was invented 150 year earlier.
Peter Brown absolutely
So many techniques used and tricks known will have been lost to time throughout the history of engineering and construction. We have relied on machines for centuries, and have done away with almost all manual labour, therefore losing our understanding for it.
I love Fred Dibnah. He was one of my television heroes growing up. I was born in 1963 and im now 60. When i see all theses young lads running about having fun it reminds me of how i grew up. Those were far better times. I still love watching his programme repeats on TV.
Had a 100% record for climbing up them and bringing them down, what a man and his knowledge of all things engineering was a thing to behold. R I P Fred, we'll never see your like again.
Did you like that 😂😂 we loved ya fred
He was kept up only by god, any man without god would of fallen
Modern life has done away with creating legends such as Fred Dibnah. A truly remarkable gentleman. There'll never again be anybody like him.
Funny you say that. About 20+ years ago I worked with an old pipe fitter in the US named Jack. He reminds me of Fred. He was in his 60s and worked as hard or even harder than us at 30ish. On his weekends he would drive his motor cycle 600 miles each way with his wife on the back just for a ride and one night stay. He was a real throwback. I am 52 and an electrician. I look back on the things I did and wonder how I am still alive. Playing with 2000 amps 480 volt panels live, making up live 1200 amp 480 volt cables live in boxes. Shocks happened every day more than once. I would show my wife the black and blues and burns I got. Set my shirts on fire a few times. Now It is all hard hats, lock out tag out, eye protection, ear protection etc. We shot pins with a .22 into 1/2 inch steel. I just turned my head so it would not hit me in the face. Strange how much things have changed.
@@StanSwan Yeah, thank god. All very well not bothering with PPE and working on live stuff to save a few mins.
At least we’re all safe now. We’ve been saved from ourselves 😅
@@StanSwan stay safe, so many peoples are death and no one cares
Well said nick
@@2Sorts lol lots of accidents happening in the past, there is way more Dangerous stuff than fred dibnah work, look all the deaths during the work with big machines in factorys, deaths during work with acid or flambable fluids.
Fred is the sort of person from Britain that established America Canada , Australia , New Zealand , and built their past industries , a true working class genuine working man , the salt of the earth which are sorely missing today .
@@bcfclad3755 LOL UK royal family is literally inbred. Get fucked racist.
@@mjstecyk Thier not racists..we Brits built nothing .it was already there . look into it...the paracites know this ..these two either know oi are useful idiots..
@@bcfclad3755 Rather than building anything, Fred seemed to spend most of his time knocking things down !
@@malcolmcanning548 yeah all the buildings and railway systems they are still using today were already there.... idiot
@@SNORKYMEDIA are you opened minded
In the 70s there weren't many working class heroes that the working man could look up to on the TV, this man broke down the social barriers "class system that dominated the TV in the 60s and 70s" , Fred dibnah is a national treasure and an inspiration to us all that had the pleasure to watch him over the years!
Absolutely brilliant. No health and safety. Brings a building down with a box of matches, almost gets hit by the building and has to run away as it collapses, then the locals from the council estate go and play on the still burning rubble, melting rubber, asbestos still very much filling the air they breath. Fred lights a cig and is off to the pub dressed in his work clothes - a shirt and cardigan.
priced80 Back when people didn’t think they were going to live forever 🍻
priced80 9-11 all over. They watched it fall
@@davidandrews2742 you can't blame Fred for that!
@@howardchambers9679 it's all Fred's fault. He caused brexit.
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Good times back then , when I was a teen i lived in Oldham and watched Fred demolish a mill chimney using this method of propping and burning , he was a true working class hero......RIP Fred
Fred Dibnah is the man. I always come back to watch all his videos again. RIP Fred.
This is a real working man who didn’t have paper qualifications but was a superb steeplejack and a multi skilled, self taught engineer! Nowadays, young folk come out of college and know bugger all!
Nonsense, they get 30k in debt knowing they can change gender.
His previous job didnt go to plan as he stated. Theres a reason you get special degrees in these type of jobs, you could easily die from 1 simple mistake. Other than that I do admire this man every very very much!!! But the amount of deaths that have been prevented from these jobs is huge, every single life saved is a blessing. Not a single soul deserves to go to work and never return home, so I am in favour of these rules.
That's because they might get their hands dirty.
@@watsappenin2865 not going to plan doesn't mean it didn't work, even by today's standards things don't go to plan
I think he was a former Art Student,
Kids knocking about on a demolition site, never ever ever happen these days! Brilliant
Fast show, lol
Sure it happening in my countrie Germany, no joke if a tall radio tower got demolished and the autoritys givve the permission, the folk kann watch the site, this is a long Tradition here even today.
"we're off to the pub now" - perfect ending!
Fred we miss you....luckily your captured on film forever to watch again and again( I one of them!)with your passion and educated professional presentations are brilliant. We see you maturing through your life and enthusiasm for new projects, meeting other characters along the way who you touched with your stories,drawings,back garden projects,steeple jacking,and having a pint! 🍻cheers Fred RIP....best wishes to your family. 👏👏👏👏👍🏴😉
I can remember watching these programs when I was growing up. Fred never ceased to amaze me. You will never find another like him, he was a one off... 👍
Me too and we had Blaster Bates as well. He was funny in the pub with his stories.
I love it! Old school. Some hard work, brains, 30 tires , 3 packs of smokes , a young lady an kids to help and we are done. Let’s go get a pint!
Don’t forget the diesel or kerosene lol
Just found this. I’m just alittle late to the party but I’m here now lol
A fearless genius who i watched on tv when i was young. A master at what he did and a great enthusiast of steam power and the old hardworkiing industrial days in the UK. From climbing isolated industrial chimneys hundreds of feet high, repairing church spires and demolishing tall structures ...... a true insperation.
Loved it mate. National treasure. What a guy.
Ah the good old days when kids could take part in exciting events and learn something with physical activity. Stacking tires, exploring around a dilapidated building, starting a fire, breathing toxic smoke, walking over the still burning rubble, now they sit on a couch playing with their phones. Lol
You are exactly right, kids learnt something in those days, not like now, "you can't do this" , "you can't do that" ..
And coppers were good honest fellas, who knew the community and people respected.
fucking hell mate do you really need to write "lol"... Why????
I’d rather play in the abandoned building and play with fire ...
Kids in Chorley Lancs did exactly that when they burned the old Chortex Mill down in 1985 They put a load of old tires on the top floor set them alight which then burned through four floors The fire was that bad it leveled the hole building
I love the way Fred runs like the clappers at the last seconds, what a MAN.
Absolutely beautiful to see this and everyone helping out great stuff ,me dads watching this with me.Fred an absolute HERO.
Takes a tower down with a box of matches then goes the pub, what a legend.
The days when you had freedom in uk to fart without having to do a risk assesment.
Tangobaldy, or jailed.
Ah for the good old days, when we took unnecessary risks with others lives and wellbeing, no one would bring a civil claim for negligence and we avoided all that paperwork.
Ricky Wright, what's so great about today? Only some technology really, aside from that what? Society has regressed.
Commander Spock society may have, but that is entirely separate from the vast reduction in workplace deaths and injuries since Fred's heydey.
Ricky, fair point but the nanny state has gone too far. I remember a very different world when I was a kid back in the 80s, not so long ago and half the things we did then we couldn't even do now. Sometimes we got hurt, we had accidents, but we learned and frankly were better for it.
I used to watch Fred all the time before he passed away. One hell of a man!
Did he have to take out an injunction on you, or did you just watch him on the telly?
Superb engineering principal. On the slow motion you can clearly see her standing on the stairwell props for a fraction until they failed.Impressive stuff .Cheers!
Not a "Hi Viz" in sight. Fucking brilliant.
Fred could move pretty quickly when he wanted to. He was one of a kind.
A man who didn’t consider himself second to other men or women or children….no swearing ,a bit rough around the edges but a right jewel of a person……I so miss my pop when I watch Fred movies …I only watch for his grin and his laugh…..everything else is just gravy on mash.
What an absolute legend of a man
agreed a true brit of the highest caliber
@@martinhowe3679 Terrible Health and Safety. Kids playing on demo site. Unsafe method etc. Dibnah received cease and decist notice from HSE after this demolition.
This is what real British men look like, it's a shame rest of world only think London exists in uk, they'd get a shock if they come up north
@@user-zw8hb7zm5u If the people of the North are so fantastic, how come it is such a disaster area full of poverty. The people in London are clearly much more intelligent and hard working.
@StealthyHero274 I've never ever voted Tory or UKIP or BNP.
Ah, back when the world was real and not run by risk assessing, hand wringing, namby pamby silk skinned degree holders. We have thrown away an awful lot in the last 35yrs. Heaven help us if we get in a real jam as no one can do any real work now, they all need a computer to tell them what to do ! RIP Fred, end of an era & way of life.
Fred defines Englishness at it`s best. Freedom to be yourself. What will Boris and Matt Hancock`s England look like in 2021?
Those were the years BB (Before Blair).
I was working on building sites just as the rules were all coming into force and restrictions got heavy. This was back in 2002-2004 kind of time. I was a young lad of 18 or 19, and I was able to use Stihl saws, drive a dumper and operate a minidigger on site, without tickets, just supervision. These days, I wouldn't even be able to enter a building site to just sweep the floor, nevermind actually do any work! The attitude back then was "how are young lads going to learn anything, if they can't use the equipment?" There were meant to be official training courses for this stuff, but it was still informal at this point. Nowadays it's essential, and unthinkable that someone could use any equipment without a risk assessment and a daytraining course.
Sure have thrown away an awful lot - of lives. As someone who does a lot of 'real work' - I hope I never run into you on site. Every worker should know they'll get home after work.
@@alenyaclassic well said. All these boomers pining for a Britian that never existed need a reality check. They probably think miners shouldn't sue for vibration white finger, and shipbuilders should shut up about asbestosis, and deformed children should shut up about thalidomide. Just a few results of the "golden age" before "elf and safety'.
3.09 that's me in the green jacket with a arm fun of sticks for the fire lol, I'm famous ha ha
Ha how old were you there, did you meet Fred?
I was around 12/13 years old , didn't speak to him there but a year after I met him and got a handshake ! Lol , I was a volunteer at Bolton steam museum, taking the admission money when he turned up .
My grandad also got me his autograph when he sold Fred a load of coal he didn't need anymore, but it's lost now bah, regards Chris 😊
Bolton steam museum ,one of the best and little known in the country, well worth a look
I envy you, chris.... I would have loved to have been there .... what a lovely man he was.
chris the bodge liar
Crazy how times have changed. Today the site would be full hi-vis , clipboard jobs worth and h&s bollocks we've gone to far in the other direction
And yet work place deaths have fallen by around 300 per year since the late 70s. So about 9 000 people who didn't die at work in that time.
Tom Rogerson where did you get those figures from 🤔?
@@damo0666 www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/history/historical-picture.pdf Just about 700 reported killed on the job in 1974 down to about 150 in 2018 (keep in mind both population and workforce have grown in number). Nowadays the most common cause of workplace death is "falls from a height", while "struck by a moving object" is 3rd on the list, both of these seem like high risks for a guy like Fred doing the work he did. This doesn't even count people affected by respiratory issues from breathing in dust, asbestos and etc from the job site.
You see more people with clipboards on the job site these days because most jobs have gotten substantially more complex and require specialized labour to reliably undertake them.
Go eat some asbestos then lad
I get where you're coming from with this and I consider Fred part of a 'better' generation, but the H&S laws we have now have really improved working conditions. My dad told me stories of how blokes literally lost eyes, arms and fingers working in the 1960s when if there had been basic safety the accidents could have been avoided!
A spectacular job done here by Fred, one of my favourite videos of his demolition work.
Took some real nerve inserting those supports inside, & not a hard hat in sight!...GREAT!
Drops it in its own footprint….bloody marvellous
Respekt aus Deutschland für diesen Mann.Er erinnert mich an die alten Bauarbeiter und Schlosser in der DDR ,welche noch schmutzige Hände durch ehrliche Arbeit hatten.
Terrible example set by Fred he wasnt wearing a hard hat if that tower had fell on top of him his cap would of got dirty
" would HAVE got dirty"
And without the protection of a highviz jacket.
@@fasteddy546 English people don't their own language.
@@Misteryowl "don't KNOW their own language" lol
@@misterbonzoid5623 Dear, oh dear...
Making the building structurally unsafe, then happily strutting around inside the building, making sure it really is completely unsafe.
The world does not see any Fred Dibnah's anymore!
@Mark Grudt Eeerh, no. But men of Fred's caliber aren't made anymore.
You seem to prove that... 😉
Then inviting children to mill around the unsafe building. Boy would he be the heel of Britain if that thing came down prematurely and killed a few kids
I totally agree with you morton
@@scottkasper6378 to be fair it was his job to bring it down not to control the crowds 🤷♂️ that was what the police and site security should have been doing
@@thefreedomguyuk nah, many millions working today like him but those guys are in brazil, quatar, china, india, bangladesh.
I just can't fathom that he was walking under that building with the foundation cut out.
I've only ever done one of these before and it went wrong.
Hahaha brilliant...
So laid back !!...what a lovely man ..must have been a pleasure to work with .
These days " skilled " is used to much , but this was a skilled man , used to watch him on an old 4 channel tv with fred on in the week , talking about steam
At last a film showing how to put out a fire, by dropping a building on it. Great stuff Fred, RIP :(
I'm 78yrs.old & worked on gas pipelines but never saw anything like this.Thanks for posting.
I would of have love to meet this man. Such a hard worker and a good man. R.I.P Fred
Everything about this video is of it’s time. I love it
Fred was one of the last decent, patriotic and dignified true British gentlemen. There are few, if any, men similar or equal to the late Fred Dibnah!!!
Powell and Mosely were my favorites.
Our thoughts guide him in heaven .I think that's the purpose of life to be loved when your gone 🙏😉💪
I used to love knocking around on old derelict sites with my mates when I was a kid in the 80's, smashing windows and stuff.
Going to school now till your 50 and this man could teach anyone how to build and take down buildings in mins.
It’s great to see kids working on a demolition site, these days Fred would of been arrested for child abuse, kids these days just sit in front of a computer getting fat.
Its the parents fault.
Boomers these days just sit on TH-cam yearning for a time that never existed, making stupid comments about health and safety and generalisations about the youth of today.
@thert.hon.thelordnicholson7261 agreed. TH-cam is turning into boomer facebook with the "back in my day" shite.
I grew up in the early eighties living on a massive building site, it was just one massive adventure playground. I am so glad I grew up when I did.
Thanks for these post's ...
If you did this today, the health and safety lunatics would die of a heart attack,.. lol Oh the irony. lol.
Adored this man!
Not much left of what once was Britain's mighty textile industry.
Not a hard hat, high vis or "elfnsafety" bloke in sight! I bet the job was done at a fraction of the price too!
When you get a quiet moment mate. Have a look at the figures of people killed and seriously injured in the construction industry back in the ‘good ol days’ compared with today.
@@billt1954 piss off mate
@@blingblinginyaface Ok. I will “piss off” and you can have a look at the figures as well!
Yes Fred dropped chimneys brick by brick for £500 !
A sorely missed legend our Fred
They don't make Fred's anymore.
@@davidsedlickas8222 Too true, I remember when we used to have an aircraft industry too!
There are opinions on both sides about Health & Safety. I was an apprentice in a machine shop when I was 17. This was way back when long hair was all the rage. I once saw a young lad with long blond hair using a bench drill. Supposedly he should have been wearing one of those safety caps to restrain long hair but I'm unsure if he actually was. He leaned down and over to look at the progress of the job and that was when his hair became instantly entangled with the chuck. All I saw was him rearing back in a daze of total shock and one side of his head was completely bald. Two of his workmates grabbed him and held on to him otherwise he would have keeled over on the workshop floor and cracked his head wide open on top of the original injury. H&S is there for a reason but you can't put an old head on young shoulders.
Your right bud but it's the interpretation of H&S that gets mixed up and over zealous enforcers make it turn ridiculous. Being safe in anything you do and keeping others safe is a good thing. They used to call it bonkers conkers a while back because even teachers got on the bandwagon banning conkers in the playground ! But it's all about the common sense interpretation that makes it work. I had similar experience with a lad as an apprentice in another training group that was on the lathes. He was a 'new romantic type who 'had' a long left side quiff. Fell out of his hairnet and ended up flying round chuck at 3500 rpm ! 😯😯😯
Back then safety caps for long hair came under "Common Sense" before they invented Health n safety
My brother got sacked from a engineering factory in the 70s because he refused to have his long hair cut, he did regret it the next day when my dad give him a good hiding and took him to the barbers next day for a short back and sides, he's never lost a job since, Fred and his likes are sorely missed
Fred's mad. Did he not realise that smoking cigarettes is dangerous?
Should be a statue to memorialise Fred and these clips should be digitised so as the future generations can see how REAL MEN WORKED..
David McC Damn right mate 👍🏻
There is one,its on victoria square,bolton town centre..
It’s on TH-cam. It is digitized.
Statue of him in Bolton town square. 👍🏻
Indeed there is a statue of him and rightly so
You've not experienced childhood until you've lit an illicit little fire in the woods!
"That Stairwell could hold the bugger up".....What a great bloke he was..
Can’t burn tyres nowadays let alone all of the other stuff in this classic footage. No hard hats, no Hi viz vests, no proper exclusion zone and everyone enjoying themselves watching a master craftsman at work. He is the reason I suffer from vertigo still! 😁
Im pretty sure the tires they make these days will burn.
@@dalekuhnheim1714 I meant that it’s Illegal to burn them.
@@ianreynolds9733 i was being a smart azz
Building the fire from old tyres... My god how times have changed
That come down straight as a dye!
What a guy Fred was, RIP mucker!
Fred learnt his technique based on the writings and calculations of the weight bearing strength of timber props of Aneurin Bevan's little book "Timber in Mining" From the old days when roof and roadway,also face in a coal mine was supported by timber,not steel or hydraulic chocks.
jcbairmaster73 and the reason they used timber in mining and not steel?
Timber gave you a warning before it failed steel did not.
LOVE THIS GUY WHAT A MANS MAN
Much preferred to have his old used dirty bowls for his peeled potatoes when on the march in his jolly steam roller, never mind what his woman thought about.
"The USA and The UK: Two great nations separated by a common language."
Kolon999 Some day we’re going to spring for sending a few emissaries across the pond to bring English 101 to the Brits. Lol.
Nah........ The U.S. can't Spell.
Imagine his pitch for the job. “ I’ve done one before which went wrong”
But it should be ok this time......
Well you learn loads from your mistakes so its going to go fine with this one.
or you could just fly an aeroplane into it and it will fall into its own footprint.
Old school way to do it good to watch it come down good one Fred 👍
I really thought the way this came down we were going to get a new “did you like that?” after he ran away. 😂
Insulate Britain watching will have a right fit lol
Should never have been demolished. Crying shame. Could have been converted into offices or flats. Fred was my hero
We will never see his like again
So true. Andy England 🇬🇧👍
Today this old building would feature on Grand Designs with a glass roof, living green wall and council restrictions on what mods could be made.
I love this bloke true legend
You gotta have some balls just to be inside of that hammering away at the staircase
More than balls, the man had Expertise! He knew what he was doing intuitively. An incredible man!
ThePolicenaut I’m surprised he didn’t have to pull them along in a wagon behind him lol.
I have to say, that was shocking to me. That a man could put a jack hammer to the foundation of a building and foot by foot replace it with timbers and never fear that he could die in the process
Fred dibnah videos are like pringles - once you start you can't stop!
When you had to be a minimum height of 5 foot 8 to be a Bobby! I were a Nipper then and all pc plod looked like mighty giants.
They actually walked the streets then
Fred was a Woodbine addict but they didn't stop him sprinting when the towers gave way
Children helping within feet of an unstable tower. I miss the good days. Lol
All the dangers and pollution and nobody gave a shit 😂
My hero, a very likeable manner, a man of many talents & skills
Virtually perfect felling job. I don’t know if he wanted it to fall sideways or straight down upon itself….but either way, it was a great result 👍 And i agree, Fred was a very special man. It’ll be hard to find another like him❤️🙏😞
Did you like that?
Fred DibnaahTrue British legend no nonsense get it done attitude. Today we have Guy Martin.
Guy Martin Total Wanker
cheers for putting this 1 on ,brings back memories im actually on this short fiilm.
i was 13 . LOL
Good stuff. The stairwell props were bending. Imagine taking that tower down with chisel, props, wedges and fire. I would soon be cracking a bottle of scotch frankly.Legend.
Have you ever seen him wear a hard hat? What a gutsy man.
If he was on top of a chimney nothing could fall on him!!
He was born 200 years too late he was a legend 😊
Love the old stuff. We had no health and safety back then. We done things that the young would never do today. I drove bulldozers at age 9 and helped knock down a buildings houses ect. Best years plus world was nicer place back then.
Not seen that one before! Cheers
Love Fred, anything Fred, glorious days.
Always sad to see an old landmark building come down but at least Fred gave them a dignified end.
Back in 2001 I had the opportunity to do some remodel work on an old two story timber frame home. The floor had a terrible sag at the center of the building where an old stove went up to a half chimney on the second floor. I had a 20 ton Jack in the basement on some main beams and I jacked and stacked dunnage for hours. The sag in the floor was getting pretty flat when I noticed daylight peeking in most of the way around the top of the entire basement wall. I did some closer inspection and realized I was lifting the entire house. I let it back down a few inches and placed a piece of cedar telephone pole in the center to keep the floor a little better than it was.
Mesh Grow Bags cool story bro needs more dragons n shit.
Interesting.
Also, first time I've seen the word 'gunnage' used, as an alternative to 'dunnage'. Sounds good, though, and appropriate!
@@robwilde855 thanks for catching the typo spell check missed.
...a lifetime of graft, no accidents and not a high viz jacket in sight!
You'd be a brave man to tackle one of them with a box of matches and not worry.
Class. RIP Fred.
Brilliant days ,no hi viz or hard hats just proper guys getting on with the job ,legend is Fred
How about all that safety gear? You can't even wipe your nose on a job site these days without a hard hat or vest these days.
very important
how we used to live in yester, Fred, and today. priviliged
salutes from Panamá... i love Fred RIP
Fred Dinbah Environmental and Safety , has a good ring as a company name. No disrepect to the man, just trying to imagine telling city council in these times "I intend to use old telephone poles as my primary supports and light a tyre fire as my means of demolition"". Times have changed.
What a beautiful old building , what a conversion that would had made 😭
Indeed, terribly sad that so many such buildings were destroyed.