I think he would be accepted as a scholar and been able to teach in a university, the common sense of these men of the time is unbelievable by today's standards, he couldn't Google anything he just had to try and see what worked !
Love watching Fred. Warts n all, he's the double in both looks and personality of my late grandfather. Old fashioned views, an almost aspergers type personality but a loving individual at heart.
@@thetruth1862 cool, mine worked at a ropery, but was an engineering genius. He once turned his panther motorcycle (extremely valuable now) into a chopper pedal bike for me to learn on haha, a good insight into his character.
@@Jimjon24 Do you still have the pedal bike , that would be nice , these men I hope will never be forgotten, they where born in a time where you put your nose down and worked for a living something that many today don't understand.
I've actually seen him once at a traction engine rally but back then I didn't know who he was, if I had of done I would definitely have gone over to speak to him
Fred, you are sadly missed, I loved you (in the nicest posible way). You always showed such enthusiasm to our history. You were only a 'stones-throw' from my home town.... (Blackpool). There will never be another !!!! Your enthusiasm is second-to-none!!!! You will never be forgotten. R.I.P. Your Memory will live on.
@@PreservationEnthusiast Really,he managed to last all those years unscathed,doing all that laddering,people are scared of there own shadow nowdays,it shows by the snail pace work rate on jobs,forever having safety meetings,pathetic tossers.
@@geoffbell166 Well people can drink 5 pints of beer, drive a car, and not kill someone. It doesn't mean to say they should does it? Safety procedure in the end is about numbers. Sure you can do things and get away them. Sure it can take longer. But I think you would take a different approach if a member of your family was killed because safety rules were not followed. You would likely be the first person to demand why they had died, and what could be done to protect others in the same situation. Your glib attitude would soon be forgotten.
Yeah that Sue was a genius... she meets him while he was pissed out of his head (and probably pretty happy)... and she thought she would cheer him up by moving in his house and stopping him drinking and smoking. Yep Fred could pic em! ;)
Jasonsenipor Doing what? He lived for climbing chimneys not rotting away is some old people home with Sue draining his back account. You need to remember pal that we are all gonna die. No one gets out here alive. At least Fred lived his life. What you gonna do live a clean life, avoid risks and rot in an old people’s home until your half a day out with the undertaker?
SUBSCRIBED. Is this the Chimney climber guy with ladder's ? He'll scale building's back in the old days ? These were the best times... Before Computers
Love the man. A remarkable tough nut. With a vulnerable streak that made him a man of his time. When women remaining tied to the stove was just the start.
To be fair it's not usually the steam engines themselves that are noisy, it's the machinery you drive with them. I bet our air compressor annoys the neighbours more 😁
I did not know Fred but from what I have seen of him on all of these videos and after reading his biography I have taken a dislike to his middle wife, Sue. She must have known what he was like and to try and change him is very annoying to me. He seems like one of the hardest working men you could meet and she is moaning about him not doing the pots. Also, he was not a rich man so why not let people buy the drinks if thats what they want to do? He deserved to get a little extra.
Not a rich man ? Have you got any idea how much he earned for spending months knocking an enormous chimney down ? How about the cost of a steam engine or millions in TV work ? Gold digger from the start
@@wackyadz06 all of it. Men were men, women were women. Then people like sue come along and blur the lines between the 2 in the name of modernity and equality and we end up in the state we are now. plenty of males, not enough men and same with the females.
I always read Road To Wigan Pier when feeling nostalgic . My grandfather was born just around 1900 , my father 1927 both said that life had got better and progress for the working man in conditions , pay and health care has led to a longer life expectancy more free time , maybe this winter will be like my childhood of the 70s , no electricity , piles of rubbish , little food and a demoralized nation ? Or the 80s recession , Thatchers greed and callousness and local societies breakdown ? I never miss the social and economic culture of my childhood , just the people that have passed .
You all have had a person who was differant, even rough around the edges. But that person is also a true friend to you in many ways. So it is easy to be his friend back.
Sadly most people's idea of heroes probably include the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond and Edd China. Away from TV motoring presenters they would chose Jordan Petersen and Joe Rogan. Sadly Fred wouldn't make the list today amongst the Netflix binger watchers, facebook/Twitter generation.
Just found this December 2022. I wonder if the original broadcast might have been a little seed of an idea of Feminism for all our Dads to think about (I'm 53)?
@@BlueXonar obviously TRUMP isn't going to work hard with his hands and do MAN work, but TRUMP was right about a lot. He wasn't afraid to say what needed to be said, and that's why they hated him. They couldn't win debates about issues, so they resorted to name calling and making up lies. If you're not paying enough attention to see that, then you're a fool. TRUMP won in 2020, and will win in 2024.
Where was you sue,when fred made his name ? where was you when he spent all them laborious hours knocking down,and climbing chimneys? I know were you were.scheming and sliding your way into freds life.
typical woman….nothing to see there…whinging …whining …money grubber..shows their true side only after they have married you and/or had a kid to you…in other words once they are in a position that gives them a legal and sole claim to your estate and money regardless of whether they contributed to it or not…we loved Fred just the way he was… cigarettes …beer …stories..his hobbies…his work ethic..that was Fred…
What a gem old Fred was a real treasure & to get with a whining voice almost control freak woman fuck that he never should have got her it's right she needed a bloke that worked in an office banker solicitor spends his day knocking people for money not knocking chimneys down
His first wife maybe had an excuse to divorce him. They married young, she probably didn't realise his interests and personality were all-encompassing. The later wife's had no excuse. You can't marry a fanous self confessed victorian and expect him to change into a modern metrosexual type on your behalf. That's cruel. It's not fair on either party. Don't convince people you love them for who they are and marry them if you have the idea you can whittle away the bits you don't like.
Ye for the first wife I totally understand why she left him, she wanted him to go on holidays etc. which he just didnt want to, so they separated. But how are his future wifes marrying him (knowing who he is) and still want to change him.
People bad mouth Sue, but I definitely would attribute great improvements in his life to her. People seek out and draw to themselves just what they need in life.
I love to hear him talk and the videos about him working are absolutely amazing, but the way he treated especially his first wife and kids, basically furniture, is quite sad to watch.One can take from all the material on the internet that he would work really hard for a couple months, stop and spend the money on alcohol and steam engines while the wife struggled to feed the kids and being a slave raising them on her own, only allowed to go out to steam rallies that she hated (and the kids, full days on that teeth shaking machine eating oil, unbearable noise and 4mph top speed).Fred was charming but really, really self centred, otherwise known as narcissistic. I've seen hundreds of people attacking her because she left him, she was a child when they met and the fact that she stayed until the kids were grown up makes her a trooper in my eyes, people wouldn't judge like that if she was their mother or daughter that's for sure, some mofo acts like this with my daughter I'll feed him his nuts while he digs his own grave
I dont know if youre right, however the narccisism would explain how he can scale those insane heights without fear.... A complete detachment from human fear/emotion. It makes sense.
I suspect he was autistic, given other traits he had. It's very fashionable to label people "narcissistic" these days. And it's been very fashionable even since before Fred's day to see traditional values as selfish or oppressive. We shall see how that pans out in the long term. I know my grandparents generation were more stable and happy than my parents generation, despite the fact the latter had everything handed to them. This lot that's coming up right now just seem totally lost.
@@Tarteh thing is, I think I have the right to show the things I conquered with hard work, but I'm still a supportive husband and especially a father to my kids, fred was supportive of the pub waiter and a father to his steam engines.Get of your high horse fella, if you can't see that everything I wrote is true you have the observation skills of a fucking firefly,one of those people who need internet heroes because they can't be their own man. I call it as it is, I'm not one to fear groupies on the internet, sheep can't scare a lion. My kids will mourn my death, his didn't
"..it cleans yer fingernails while yer doing it..."
Legend.
Bang on comment 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Been to look round your garden today Fred and been to your grave wish they had looked after it better after you gave so much RIP mate never be another
Are they in good condition?
This world needs more people like Fred to sort this world out? Fred for president.
🤙🏻 even more so today
He's Dead.
@@MrWeAllAreOne "like"
How would Fred running any country, anywhere, be good? He's a top bloke, but, c'mon, put the pig back in the pen.
@@MrWeAllAreOne he posted that 10 years ago, learn to read
the world was a happier place in his day, he could have worked wonders with the kids of today
send delinquent a boy up a 400 foot chimney and he comes back down as a man.
I think he would be accepted as a scholar and been able to teach in a university, the common sense of these men of the time is unbelievable by today's standards, he couldn't Google anything he just had to try and see what worked !
I’d say pass me the fairy liquid sue I’ll wash the dishes, now you can get up that fucking chimney stack and start knocking it down.
Fucking brilliant.
I imagine he did 🤣
Low key poetry. Well put.
This is why I love the internet. 4 years later and you made someone else laugh. Well done!
Took the words right out of my mouth. Brilliant.
Love watching Fred. Warts n all, he's the double in both looks and personality of my late grandfather. Old fashioned views, an almost aspergers type personality but a loving individual at heart.
He reminds me of my grandfather he would be about 89 if he where alive today , he worked on gas pumps he always had 2 or 3 at the house in the garage
@@thetruth1862 cool, mine worked at a ropery, but was an engineering genius. He once turned his panther motorcycle (extremely valuable now) into a chopper pedal bike for me to learn on haha, a good insight into his character.
@@Jimjon24 Do you still have the pedal bike , that would be nice , these men I hope will never be forgotten, they where born in a time where you put your nose down and worked for a living something that many today don't understand.
What was your grandfathers name mine was Jimmy Keith Williams from East Tennessee USA
Fred Dibnah a man of those times, our time and for all time..
MAN FOR ALL SEASONS !!!✌g
Amen
The power of the snatch
Trevor Hayes Yh it was a good film wasn’t it
Whats a bit of fanny got to do with this?
@@harrymonk6 u takin the piss?
@@pleidiolwyfimwlad2104 dude wtf?
Wicked, this is disheartening. Sue is my worst nightmare.
My only regret was never meeting Fred. What a smashing chap he was :-)
Me too
Met him in the 90s, I was only in my late teens but was fascinated by his story’s. He was a lovely man and when he spoke you just listened. Legend
I've actually seen him once at a traction engine rally but back then I didn't know who he was, if I had of done I would definitely have gone over to speak to him
Fred, you are sadly missed, I loved you (in the nicest posible way). You always showed such enthusiasm to our history. You were only a 'stones-throw' from my home town.... (Blackpool). There will never be another !!!!
Your enthusiasm is second-to-none!!!!
You will never be forgotten. R.I.P. Your Memory will live on.
Hardly a stones throw
@@devawheels3942 init, what on earth is he on about
This definitely wasn’t written by his neighbour
@@devawheels3942 : Well Bolton isn't that far away from Blackpool and technically we are in the same County.
@@blackpoolbarmpot yeah it's ONLY 40 odd miles.
Would you say " more people like Fred" and "Less people like Sue". ?
More people like Sue and less people like Fred. Fred was a wife beating old dinosaur with scant regard for health and safety.
@@PreservationEnthusiast Really,he managed to last all those years unscathed,doing all that laddering,people are scared of there own shadow nowdays,it shows by the snail pace work rate on jobs,forever having safety meetings,pathetic tossers.
@@geoffbell166 Well people can drink 5 pints of beer, drive a car, and not kill someone. It doesn't mean to say they should does it?
Safety procedure in the end is about numbers. Sure you can do things and get away them. Sure it can take longer. But I think you would take a different approach if a member of your family was killed because safety rules were not followed.
You would likely be the first person to demand why they had died, and what could be done to protect others in the same situation. Your glib attitude would soon be forgotten.
@@PreservationEnthusiast Oh yeah really,What dangerous work have you ever done??
@@geoffbell166 Your question is irrelevant to the subject of health and safety procedure. Clearly you have no answer to the point I made.
Wife getting angry when you won’t buy a round for everyone at the pub? Perfect!
When you’ve had six pints, and haven’t bought one yet, it’s your round.
Yeah that Sue was a genius... she meets him while he was pissed out of his head (and probably pretty happy)... and she thought she would cheer him up by moving in his house and stopping him drinking and smoking. Yep Fred could pic em! ;)
truemanc codependency
@Jasonsenipor Fred died of bladder cancer, not lung cancer
@@drewhunter4821 Smoking is one of the biggest causes of bladder cancer
Jasonsenipor Doing what? He lived for climbing chimneys not rotting away is some old people home with Sue draining his back account. You need to remember pal that we are all gonna die. No one gets out here alive. At least Fred lived his life. What you gonna do live a clean life, avoid risks and rot in an old people’s home until your half a day out with the undertaker?
@@Neontrifle untrue it's undiagnosed infections of the urinary tract and STDs such as Clamydia
SUBSCRIBED. Is this the Chimney climber guy with ladder's ? He'll scale building's back in the old days ? These were the best times... Before Computers
That’s him Yes!
Let’s be honest living next door to him would be a nightmare 🙉
Imagine him firing one his of engines up on a peaceful Sunday morning lol
@@davidfletcher2162 it was music to him lol
But brilliant , fred you got extra rare thingamabob, course he has an he'll give you a hand with it too...
@@SuperFunkmachine Fred could build a SuperFunkMachine I’m sure
Greta Thornburgs neighbor.
Love the man. A remarkable tough nut. With a vulnerable streak that made him a man of his time. When women remaining tied to the stove was just the start.
Deadly the inspector was delighted all he cared about was the birds Fred got away there what a man
Trust imagine if he’d done that these days the inspector would be walking away with a snapped broom up his arse about that situation
It’s them fearless qualities that make fighter pilots and astronauts
A Legend of a man!
Some woman only get into a relationship with a man to “fix” him. Thy just need a project to make themselves feel better
To be fair it's not usually the steam engines themselves that are noisy, it's the machinery you drive with them. I bet our air compressor annoys the neighbours more 😁
I did not know Fred but from what I have seen of him on all of these videos and after reading his biography I have taken a dislike to his middle wife, Sue. She must have known what he was like and to try and change him is very annoying to me. He seems like one of the hardest working men you could meet and she is moaning about him not doing the pots. Also, he was not a rich man so why not let people buy the drinks if thats what they want to do? He deserved to get a little extra.
jimbo99ful Good point, hell I would have been glad to trade a pint for just a minute of his time!
She was a social worker , make of that what you will
Not a rich man ?
Have you got any idea how much he earned for spending months knocking an enormous chimney down ?
How about the cost of a steam engine or millions in TV work ?
Gold digger from the start
I've just read she likes the old marchin powder. I'm awaiting further details...
"I like a woman in stockings and suspenders!"
Frederick Travis Dibnah M.B.E 🏆🇬🇧
I miss when Britain was like this. Reminds me of being young.
Like what?! What in this clip do you miss?
@@wackyadz06 all of it. Men were men, women were women. Then people like sue come along and blur the lines between the 2 in the name of modernity and equality and we end up in the state we are now. plenty of males, not enough men and same with the females.
@@unknown55158 How does any of that affect you in any way?
Good times☺Better than the multi - cultural shithole its become😍🤡
I always read Road To Wigan Pier when feeling nostalgic . My grandfather was born just around 1900 , my father 1927 both said that life had got better and progress for the working man in conditions , pay and health care has led to a longer life expectancy more free time , maybe this winter will be like my childhood of the 70s , no electricity , piles of rubbish , little food and a demoralized nation ? Or the 80s recession , Thatchers greed and callousness and local societies breakdown ? I never miss the social and economic culture of my childhood , just the people that have passed .
Legend! "It cleans the fingers nails I suppose" 😂
And at 61 I'm still glad I'm single.
You all have had a person who was differant, even rough around the edges. But that person is also a true friend to you in many ways. So it is easy to be his friend back.
Love this guy. A mans man
Poor lad slowly succumbing to the crushing weight of modernity in the form of Sue
lol
If only men of that generation said 'no woman I'm not doing the washing up' we would be in a lot better a place now.
@@Drewster195 no
@@Drewster195 is the task too difficult for you?
Nothing wrong with him washing up .
Stick her on a 250 foot ladder , here's your hammer love , up you go . . .
2:38
Buy a round?
Easy to say when it isn’t your money buying it, lady! Fred is a national treasure, miss. Don’t ever forget that.
More of a man then any of us will ever be
Fred is one of my heros
Sadly most people's idea of heroes probably include the likes of Jeremy Clarkson, James May, Richard Hammond and Edd China. Away from TV motoring presenters they would chose Jordan Petersen and Joe Rogan. Sadly Fred wouldn't make the list today amongst the Netflix binger watchers, facebook/Twitter generation.
Just found this December 2022. I wonder if the original broadcast might have been a little seed of an idea of Feminism for all our Dads to think about (I'm 53)?
Exactly the sort of bloke we need in this country now, somewhere about at Prime Minister level...
JCBAirmaster73 It happened in America, it can also happen in Britton!!
@@commodoresixfour7478 You cannot be serious. Of all the stupid tripe I've read on here, you are comparing Dibnah to Trump?
Wow.
@@BlueXonar obviously TRUMP isn't going to work hard with his hands and do MAN work, but TRUMP was right about a lot. He wasn't afraid to say what needed to be said, and that's why they hated him. They couldn't win debates about issues, so they resorted to name calling and making up lies. If you're not paying enough attention to see that, then you're a fool. TRUMP won in 2020, and will win in 2024.
Why the fuck would you want a steeplejack as prime minister 😂😂😂
I don't know what he'd make of this rabble of buffoons in power today. He'd be spitin feathers!
He is a likable character isn't he.
Your thinking was the right way the world was a better place not perfect just better safer rip big man
He helped with the dishwashing , did she climb up the chimney to give him a hand?
Looker afterer
🤣🤣
The good thing about washing up is it cleans your fingernails. Legend😂
TH-cam algorithm at it again, nice to see you all while I pass by 👋
As we Aussies would say 'loveable larrakin'.
Sad. Bladder cancer got him in the end, and that’s almost entirely caused by smoking.
Nothing to do with a lifetime of shit & crap from filthy chimneys & steam engines then . . .
THE TYRES !!!HE BURNT UNDER THE CHIMNEYS DEADLY CARSOGENIC FUMES !!!They Cause BLADDER and Lung CANCER 😣g
Looks like we know where OFAH got the idea for Rodneys Kisandra.
I don't know who Sue is. I know who and what Fred was. He was great. An inspiration and joy to listen to.
Great men❤
At least she was honest! To the whole world.
Sue definitely wants to speak to a manager.
no sound for me
Poor Fred... I rather go without mate.
How was Neil wealthy?
Sue didn't like it up the chuff!
Fred was always polite and went round the tradesmans entrance
got his city and guilds in washing up....what a geezer.
Fred was fred,sue thought she could change his 'habits' only good thing she changed was the smoking just a pity she could not accept him as he was.
Where was you sue,when fred made his name ? where was you when he spent all them laborious hours knocking down,and climbing chimneys? I know were you were.scheming and sliding your way into freds life.
andrew latchford women are mercenaries
She was about 12, that's exactly where she was.
@@simonewing3752 Good fucking point lol.
Most potentially damaging thing is your man crosscutting the wood that way at the start 😂😂😂😂😂
he's right you know. Washing the pots is the only way to get silicone out from under the fingernails.
I have worked with some of Fred’s former employees- top blokes
How to stop smoking, I never did. Fred dibnah rip
She is breaking Fred like he chips away at the mighty stack. Soon there will be but a pile of ruble where strength once stood
"Drinking and smokiiiiiiiinnnnnnnggggg" 🤣🤣🤣
She's slating him for being self centred but she's clearly with him For his fame and money
typical woman….nothing to see there…whinging …whining …money grubber..shows their true side only after they have married you and/or had a kid to you…in other words once they are in a position that gives them a legal and sole claim to your estate and money regardless of whether they contributed to it or not…we loved Fred just the way he was… cigarettes …beer …stories..his hobbies…his work ethic..that was Fred…
Blah Blah Blah... I hate Women... Blah Blah BLah
Nasty comment.
Proper man
"I don't have to pay my worker a big wage because he's a man of independant means" Oh yeah this is a top bloke I get why people like him...
Love this guy
Old school RIP matey 👍
Smoked like a chimney before, apparently.
So who trained who to fill the modern day electronic dishwasher?
2:03 Savage roast. I bet he gave her a right good hiding when the cameras went off.
What a gem old Fred was a real treasure & to get with a whining voice almost control freak woman fuck that he never should have got her it's right she needed a bloke that worked in an office banker solicitor spends his day knocking people for money not knocking chimneys down
why did these women come into his life and try to change him,or were they just after his brass
andrew latchford An old phrase my girlfriend taught me - read it phonetically: "Aisle altar hymn"...
How annoying is that woman?
Great bloke Fred.
If he'd have met her sooner then maybe he wouldn't have got cancer and would still be with us.
" when I first met him he had a few bad habits " get away, so did my rescue dog
I have been trained haha man can fel chimneys build steam engines but washing up is another challenge
ah yes ...................this is where we meet YOKO
Dibnah memes for Industrial Revolution teens.
Imagine colour o dish water when Frds had his hands in sink
my right ear feels lonely 😩
His first wife maybe had an excuse to divorce him. They married young, she probably didn't realise his interests and personality were all-encompassing.
The later wife's had no excuse. You can't marry a fanous self confessed victorian and expect him to change into a modern metrosexual type on your behalf. That's cruel.
It's not fair on either party.
Don't convince people you love them for who they are and marry them if you have the idea you can whittle away the bits you don't like.
Ye for the first wife I totally understand why she left him, she wanted him to go on holidays etc. which he just didnt want to, so they separated. But how are his future wifes marrying him (knowing who he is) and still want to change him.
Women always think they can change the man
Love Fred, but do feel sorry for the neighbour!
People bad mouth Sue, but I definitely would attribute great improvements in his life to her. People seek out and draw to themselves just what they need in life.
Real life British Ron Swanson
Freds a nice man but it must of been a nightmare living next 2 him ....constant noise banging at all times of a night ...pretty thoughtless of him
Why move next to Fred Dibnah if you don't like noise.
Fred seems different as a non smoker, brighter some how...
Get a job
Spend your whole life doing hard graft the least a man needs is a smoke and a couple of jars
I think his wife realised that manicures on Fred's nails weren't a good idea.
Looker-afterer 🤣
Take a happy man...add a quare one....search for happy man
That’s the mrs that left him isn’t it lol TTFN lovely 😂 God rest yer Fred.
i have to confess i have done the washing up purly to get oil and grease out of my finger nails
Definitely would be a nightmare living on the same street as him...😀😀
Sht I wood down there talking to em
That's mental I just lit one
It cleans your fingernails anyway. 😂😂 Rip Fred good night x
The original steam punk
Fred had to stop smoking, cos when he puffed on a cigarette - the cigarette got cancer.
Can anyone see the huge similarities with Fred and Guy Martin?
I have been trained!
Washing up IS the best way to clean your hands of grease and dirt, but still no excuse for her to make Fred do it.
3:55 wow
What?
I love to hear him talk and the videos about him working are absolutely amazing, but the way he treated especially his first wife and kids, basically furniture, is quite sad to watch.One can take from all the material on the internet that he would work really hard for a couple months, stop and spend the money on alcohol and steam engines while the wife struggled to feed the kids and being a slave raising them on her own, only allowed to go out to steam rallies that she hated (and the kids, full days on that teeth shaking machine eating oil, unbearable noise and 4mph top speed).Fred was charming but really, really self centred, otherwise known as narcissistic. I've seen hundreds of people attacking her because she left him, she was a child when they met and the fact that she stayed until the kids were grown up makes her a trooper in my eyes, people wouldn't judge like that if she was their mother or daughter that's for sure, some mofo acts like this with my daughter I'll feed him his nuts while he digs his own grave
I dont know if youre right, however the narccisism would explain how he can scale those insane heights without fear.... A complete detachment from human fear/emotion. It makes sense.
Completely agree, very well said.
Lovely bloke. Terrible husband. Absent father.
But still a lovely bloke.
I suspect he was autistic, given other traits he had. It's very fashionable to label people "narcissistic" these days. And it's been very fashionable even since before Fred's day to see traditional values as selfish or oppressive. We shall see how that pans out in the long term. I know my grandparents generation were more stable and happy than my parents generation, despite the fact the latter had everything handed to them. This lot that's coming up right now just seem totally lost.
@@Tarteh thing is, I think I have the right to show the things I conquered with hard work, but I'm still a supportive husband and especially a father to my kids, fred was supportive of the pub waiter and a father to his steam engines.Get of your high horse fella, if you can't see that everything I wrote is true you have the observation skills of a fucking firefly,one of those people who need internet heroes because they can't be their own man. I call it as it is, I'm not one to fear groupies on the internet, sheep can't scare a lion. My kids will mourn my death, his didn't
Good to see his wife running him down on national TV.