I could listen to conversations like this for hours i think. Real men chatting about life and interesting things instead of news reporters gabbin about the same shite over and over every day.
When they made Fred, they broke the mould. "Oh bugger! Well I hope it's going to be a good 'un, 'cos there's only ever going to be one of him!" As it turns out, you know, he were bloody brilliant. Thank you for the Engineer in the flat cap with the greasy rag. Where ever you are Fred, be lucky fella.
Ha ha just reminds me of my uncle and his old friends. Swearing and telling old stories that they must tell eachother every week and still laugh as loud as the first time. God bless Fred a proper grafter..
Imagine having half the logic and half the skill as Fred, would be in the upper echelons of craftsmen/engineer. I’m a 35 year old ex military engineer, yet still learn tricks watching Fred on camera. I anticipate skills and logical problem solving will be things in short supply soon. Manual skills will become the obscure in our modern world x
As my Austrian colleague used to say when reviewing submissions from some of our business : "But where is the critical thinking ?". Fred's inventiveness shows an intelligent and crucially, practical mind at work. What's the problem ? How can a solution be improved ? And most of his skills were self-taught, or learnt on the job. Watching his videos makes me want to visit the huge steam rally that is held in Dorset each year.
Its because IQ has been dropping since the 1880s. We've lost about 20 points as a whole and its going to continue the same way for a long while I believe
nw8000 I used to know guys who’d been married 50 years+ and their wives never heard them swear, yet all day at work and nights in the pub was a barrage of swearing. Amazing how they could turn it off and on, depending on if ladies are present.
I almost got to meet him. I worked at a builders merchant called Cromptons up by Moses Gate because I’d moved up from London having married a Northern Lass. He’d had to apply for planning permission for his mine shaft and it was in the local gazette under planning notices so I wrote him a letter saying we’d be happy to supply all the materials and I could call round at a convenient time for him to discuss his requirements. He sadly died whilst the letter was still in the post. That’s one of my big regrets not meeting Fred. Unfortunately the marriage didn’t last as it was marriages she liked not actually being married. I was 28 then, I’m 48 now and would love a Bolton Lass to love (best girls in Britain) but I’m not likely to find one of them in Kingston Upon Thames now am I?
Some people down south think because you work with rocks and stuff you have got rocks in your head. There would be no modern world without men like these God bless em!
Stop talking soft lad believe it or not we have industry down south to. London is one of the mightiest city's on earth and you don't achieve that without industry and bloody big industry at that.
@Bromley Co I'm going to be honest with you buddie I had trouble trying to understand what you are talking about? What has London's past got to do with you thinking that southerners see all notheners as rock workers????. The thing with people like yourself is that you seem to think all southerners are rich ignorant pigs that have not done o proper days work in their lives well let me tell you that's not the case the whole country contributed to the wealth of the UK and do you honestly think people down here have no idea of the ingenuity and hard work and pure genius that the north has shown over the centuries especially during the industrial revolution?. Because if that is what you believe then you really do have a low opinion of us. I personally do not that is why I was watching a video about Fred one of our national treasures not because I think he's a rock worker but because he was a brilliant man.
I get the impression these guys are all volunteers, working with Fred is such an opportunity... Notice that shaft is perfectly round and the brick lining is very neat, every little thing this guy did was to the highest level.This guy digs a mineshaft for recreation!
ive had the honor to have known a very few men of this character, only one actually, ,, highly skilled, extremely intelligent , and very successful, on the job, it would break a strong man just trying to keep up with them, salty as hell but, full of good humor and sharp wit, you never have to wonder exactly where you stand with folks like this, seems like they're all gone now though
Brilliant!!! That was the real Fred, as in the BBC films, except for the "fucking" slip of the tongue ;) A truely classic moment, pity there are not more of these vids Dave.
In the early 80's my dad took myself and my Grandma (who loved Fred) to his house. My dad being an engineer they spoke for hours with Fred about everything, me being knee-high was in all honesty none-to-plus'ed, except for the fact that there was Fred Dibnah off the telly. However, the shaft up there on TH-cam did bring back memories, as I remember him talking about the neighbours not being to happy with him about to/or currently starting (forget which) a working mine shaft. Which he hoped to get to 30ft deep at the time.
Im assuming he knew his fate at this point amazing how most would be laying around Whoa is Me not Fred out Working and carrying on without a care in the world i only hope im half the man when my time comes RIP 🤙🏻🍻
It would appear that your assumption is correct. Apparently, Fred was first diagnosed with incurable bladder cancer in 2001 and given just 12 months to live. But he fought the illness with his typical northern grit and eventually lost his battle in November 2005.
I almost got to meet him. I worked at a builders merchant called Cromptons up by Moses Gate because I’d moved up from London having married a Northern Lass. He’d had to apply for planning permission for his mine shaft and it was in the local gazette under planning notices so I wrote him a letter saying we’d be happy to supply all the materials and I could call round at a convenient time for him to discuss his requirements. He sadly died whilst the letter was still in the post. That’s one of my big regrets not meeting Fred. Unfortunately the marriage didn’t last as it was marriages she liked not actually being married. I was 28 then, I’m 48 now and would love a Bolton Lass to love but I’m not likely to find one of them in Kingston Upon Thames now am I?
All this BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS , HOURS, DAYS AND NIGHTS, MANY YEARS all gone to nothing. THE YARD IS NOW STRIPED BARED, EVERYTHING IS SOLD OFF , I WONDER FRED SOUL STILL HAUNTS AROUND THE YARD TRYING TO COMPREHEND WHY ON EARTH THIS HAS HAPPENED, HIS LIFES WORK GONE FOREVER.
Fred's house has been sold again & I believe the new occupants have taken most of Fred's work down. There is little trace of the marvels of the Victorian age.
my guess is your called Dave (i think) and you have known Fred since you where a kid in the 1970's? and you also presented a film about Freds Engines called a moving story
An aside : close your eyes and listen. It's not far from what you'd hear sitting round a hunting camp or porch in eastern Kentucky or West Virginia. The sound of the speech, I mean.
He certainly LIVED his life in an era that most of us would love to have lived during. As aposed to the cardboard cutout version of today ways. I’d love to see what he would say looking at our kids walking along looking at theyre phones 6 hrs a day🤦🏻🤦🏻
Love the fact that Fred is using a WWF mug 😁
Well spotted
And it’s stone cold!
😂🤣 great eye , two different worlds 😁
And the guy behind him, he’s got one too lol
He was a big bush wackers fan
Never heard Fred curse before! Love it! I’m a 39 year old realtor in Canada and I’m obsessed with this guy! What a Treasure.
Fred was a diamond. Love Alf's banter as well.
I could listen to conversations like this for hours i think. Real men chatting about life and interesting things instead of news reporters gabbin about the same shite over and over every day.
When they made Fred, they broke the mould. "Oh bugger! Well I hope it's going to be a good 'un, 'cos there's only ever going to be one of him!" As it turns out, you know, he were bloody brilliant. Thank you for the Engineer in the flat cap with the greasy rag. Where ever you are Fred, be lucky fella.
Ha ha just reminds me of my uncle and his old friends. Swearing and telling old stories that they must tell eachother every week and still laugh as loud as the first time. God bless Fred a proper grafter..
Reminds me of my old man , Oswaldtwistle Lancashire , god's own country
First time I ever heard Fred swear lol ya won’t find these gems on BBC hope you have more to share.
He swore like a trooper He was only concerned as he saw someone filming him lol
Imagine having half the logic and half the skill as Fred, would be in the upper echelons of craftsmen/engineer. I’m a 35 year old ex military engineer, yet still learn tricks watching Fred on camera. I anticipate skills and logical problem solving will be things in short supply soon. Manual skills will become the obscure in our modern world x
As my Austrian colleague used to say when reviewing submissions from some of our business : "But where is the critical thinking ?". Fred's inventiveness shows an intelligent and crucially, practical mind at work. What's the problem ? How can a solution be improved ? And most of his skills were self-taught, or learnt on the job. Watching his videos makes me want to visit the huge steam rally that is held in Dorset each year.
Fred was brilliant - I was proud of myself for fixing the kitchen cupboard door and mending my shower! We might need geniuses like him v soon😊
Its because IQ has been dropping since the 1880s. We've lost about 20 points as a whole and its going to continue the same way for a long while I believe
At 35 your a puppy pal
@@union310 He’s 37 now bro, he’s a big dog. WOOF
i could listen to fred for hours great man
I'd love to see an 8 hour version of this....
Fred at home with fellow workers. Absolute legend
Think the BBC should rerun all the programmes about Fred, a legend.
Couldnt do it now. Would need about three weeks to show all the adverts. Dramatic music as the chimney falls, more adverts then a Recap
Like fuck would they. The bbc dont do good tv anymore they are more interested in woke bullshit
They would never. This is the Britain that they're trying to forget.
@@deader6 They are running them.
They would rather have a program about gay black lesbian trad Union LGBTQ rep on.
Thats the first time I heard him swear and I liked it
nw8000 ddw
nw8000 he prolly ad bin it ina fookin iye!
He would've swore heaps of camera most working class men do😂😂
nw8000 I used to know guys who’d been married 50 years+ and their wives never heard them swear, yet all day at work and nights in the pub was a barrage of swearing. Amazing how they could turn it off and on, depending on if ladies are present.
@@anneread6729 Its 19:24
Would love to see more more more of these. Love Fred. The public should be able see these Jem's.
He has got a WWF Mug! Even more respect for the guy than I already have
What a great person !!!!!! He is truly missed !!!!!!
Looks like the best place to learn, and have a laugh too. Always love hanging out with the old boys like this.
Using a mirror to reflect the sun to light the shaft class
I'm half there age and could listen to this lot all day. Brilliant. Rip Fred 👌👌👌🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🍻🍻🍻🍻
Sitting on a quarter here, I think those that love to build and see the beauty in the sum of the parts will recognise Fred as a bastion of their kind.
Well said
How great to have known such a man. Dont see his kind nowadays.
I really appreciate this video. Thank you for uploading.
Lovely video. Shame you didn't film a bit longer but a lovely 3 minutes worth anyway. Thank you.
Fred holding a WWF wrestling cup !!
Highly appropriate 👏🏼👏🏼
Probably would have been 1 of young Jacks cups
Looks like a mug to me...
I almost got to meet him. I worked at a builders merchant called Cromptons up by Moses Gate because I’d moved up from London having married a Northern Lass. He’d had to apply for planning permission for his mine shaft and it was in the local gazette under planning notices so I wrote him a letter saying we’d be happy to supply all the materials and I could call round at a convenient time for him to discuss his requirements. He sadly died whilst the letter was still in the post. That’s one of my big regrets not meeting Fred. Unfortunately the marriage didn’t last as it was marriages she liked not actually being married. I was 28 then, I’m 48 now and would love a Bolton Lass to love (best girls in Britain) but I’m not likely to find one of them in Kingston Upon Thames now am I?
The lads having the craic ( Irish word for fun) 😂
Who else would build a mineshaft in their back garden . Forever loved Legend .
Fred with his Stone Cold Steve Austin tea cup😂
Sadly missed, never forgotten, always liked by all........ 🐟
Some people down south think because you work with rocks and stuff you have got rocks in your head. There would be no modern world without men like these God bless em!
As a Londoner, I personally think Fred was a Top Man with great engineering skills. He was a legend.
Southern softy, former Hod Carrier!
David Lee
I’m from North Essex and I think Fred is a Genius!
Stop talking soft lad believe it or not we have industry down south to. London is one of the mightiest city's on earth and you don't achieve that without industry and bloody big industry at that.
@Bromley Co I'm going to be honest with you buddie I had trouble trying to understand what you are talking about? What has London's past got to do with you thinking that southerners see all notheners as rock workers????. The thing with people like yourself is that you seem to think all southerners are rich ignorant pigs that have not done o proper days work in their lives well let me tell you that's not the case the whole country contributed to the wealth of the UK and do you honestly think people down here have no idea of the ingenuity and hard work and pure genius that the north has shown over the centuries especially during the industrial revolution?. Because if that is what you believe then you really do have a low opinion of us. I personally do not that is why I was watching a video about Fred one of our national treasures not because I think he's a rock worker but because he was a brilliant man.
R.I.P. FRED very missed and always loved
Wf mug and body fitness supplements pot in the background lol
Love how Fred Dibnah has a WWF coffee mug
No matter where it is, or where i go, the young men always watch the older guys like a hawk.
Priceless footage. ......a fine house he had in bolton all his items are still there I think.....
Hovermotion yes i live down the road from fred and its now an heritage center for all freds supporters .
Sadly all be sold now. I bought a length of his ladders....no cheap.
knock your fucking eye out! haha!
I get the impression these guys are all volunteers, working with Fred is such an opportunity...
Notice that shaft is perfectly round and the brick lining is very neat, every little thing this guy did was to the highest level.This guy digs a mineshaft for recreation!
Lovely to see them
gold! more of this please 👍
ive had the honor to have known a very few men of this character, only one actually, ,, highly skilled, extremely intelligent , and very successful, on the job, it would break a strong man just trying to keep up with them, salty as hell but, full of good humor and sharp wit, you never have to wonder exactly where you stand with folks like this, seems like they're all gone now though
Legend
That's just how my grand fathers an all our family sit around share stories,bull shiting make everyone laugh,miss those times
Could listen to fred all day
Brilliant!!! That was the real Fred, as in the BBC films, except for the "fucking" slip of the tongue ;) A truely classic moment, pity there are not more of these vids Dave.
Kevin Smith a quick slip adds character
Did he start a mining operation in his back yard?
Swearing made my day👍RIP FRED
Wonderful man
RIP fred LEGEND ❤
With whats happening in this country lately, I wish fred was still here
Good old Fred love it
3:00 "........ it's like riding up 't conveyors".
I wonder how that anecdote ends.
Is that “Donald” tellin the story at th’end ?
Alf, I believe
In the early 80's my dad took myself and my Grandma (who loved Fred) to his house. My dad being an engineer they spoke for hours with Fred about everything, me being knee-high was in all honesty none-to-plus'ed, except for the fact that there was Fred Dibnah off the telly. However, the shaft up there on TH-cam did bring back memories, as I remember him talking about the neighbours not being to happy with him about to/or currently starting (forget which) a working mine shaft. Which he hoped to get to 30ft deep at the time.
Still going at it . True grafters 💪
They only made one of Fred, more's the pity!
Watching his series at the moment - Channel 9 . Great Bloke . Love a read a book about Fred ??
What an absolute amazing man fred was sadly missed RIP fred
First time I’ve seen Fred take a break
Im assuming he knew his fate at this point amazing how most would be laying around Whoa is Me not Fred out Working and carrying on without a care in the world i only hope im half the man when my time comes RIP 🤙🏻🍻
It would appear that your assumption is correct. Apparently, Fred was first diagnosed with incurable bladder cancer in 2001 and given just 12 months to live. But he fought the illness with his typical northern grit and eventually lost his battle in November 2005.
“Woe”
I almost got to meet him. I worked at a builders merchant called Cromptons up by Moses Gate because I’d moved up from London having married a Northern Lass. He’d had to apply for planning permission for his mine shaft and it was in the local gazette under planning notices so I wrote him a letter saying we’d be happy to supply all the materials and I could call round at a convenient time for him to discuss his requirements. He sadly died whilst the letter was still in the post. That’s one of my big regrets not meeting Fred. Unfortunately the marriage didn’t last as it was marriages she liked not actually being married. I was 28 then, I’m 48 now and would love a Bolton Lass to love but I’m not likely to find one of them in Kingston Upon Thames now am I?
Aye now this is more like it,thanks for posting. ^
Why did fred always have WWF wrestling tea mugs ???
Noticed it in another few videos ???
He probably got the cups with Easter eggs
The sad thing is that all their hard work has been removed.
I thought they were making their tea in that cement mixer at first.
Class..... R.I.P #legend #steeplejack
now love this
Yes heard him curse brilliant
Does it record language that 🤣
Fred was an amazing man
Never heard him swear that made me laugh
If Bolton produced this guy...must be the best place in the uk...salt of the earth guy...🏴🇬🇧👏👏👏
Any one else think it’s jokes seeing fred drinking for a wwf mug. It’s like the mug got sent back in time.
Right decent bloke! 😊
All this BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS , HOURS, DAYS AND NIGHTS, MANY YEARS all gone to nothing. THE YARD IS NOW STRIPED BARED, EVERYTHING IS SOLD OFF , I WONDER FRED SOUL STILL HAUNTS AROUND THE YARD TRYING TO COMPREHEND WHY ON EARTH THIS HAS HAPPENED, HIS LIFES WORK GONE FOREVER.
Fred was a stone cold Steve Austin fan what a legend
Shame of those who nowadays screw the system, sponge benefits and do naff all, this is an example of a true champ...RIP Fred from Yorkshire
great to see and here the TRUE FRED.
Fred's house has been sold again & I believe the new occupants have taken most of Fred's work down. There is little trace of the marvels of the Victorian age.
I thought the man that brought it from the estate . That started the day show's couldn't sell it. It was listed on auction. But could be wrong.
nice one.
He reminds me of grenvil out of open all hours
Got any more footage like this?
Why are they digging a shaft? Might I ask
Let's face it living next door to this man would be a nightmare
It's so weird seeing Fred drinking out of a WWF mug.
did that shaft ever get finished?
is his pal Donald in this un?
Donald from Fred's earliest videos died in 1992.
my guess is your called Dave (i think) and you have known Fred since you where a kid in the 1970's? and you also presented a film about Freds Engines called a moving story
Too short..too short...too short.
i recognize Alf Molyneux and of course Fred but who else is in the film
An aside : close your eyes and listen. It's not far from what you'd hear sitting round a hunting camp or porch in eastern Kentucky or West Virginia. The sound of the speech, I mean.
how long was this before fred dibnah died.
Haha the man
Tea?
Did ya like that.
He certainly LIVED his life in an era that most of us would love to have lived during. As aposed to the cardboard cutout version of today ways.
I’d love to see what he would say looking at our kids walking along looking at theyre phones 6 hrs a day🤦🏻🤦🏻
This was filmd when he had the cancer. Still grafting like nothings wrong.
Proper men having a snap break
When at work I look at lads and listen to them talk they would of been ripped to bits if they was born in that era
A year later Fred was gone cancer such a horrible disease
FAIR MAN
I'd love to have a brew with Fred
Stone cold Steve Austin cup
Its a shame his Alison didn't get his house then his children could have kept his legacy going ...