>grab a few pints on the way to work
>climb 300 foot ladder
>hit a bunch of bricks with me 'ammer
>damage the roof of some pooftahs Volvo, not me fault though, he parked there
>climb down
>cash me 7 grand
>eat a steak with me tea
>work on me steam engine
>simple as
Were norf industrial workers the most based in the world?
>die at 45.
He made it to 66. Kidney cancer that spread. RIP in piece.
That guy's youtube vids are god tier. Looks dangerous at first, until you realize just how simple and brilliant his techniques are, and are probably even safer than modern practices.
>That guy's youtube vids are god tier.
and your post might approach peasant tier if you had identified him, but you're an idiot.
I did it purely to be a dick, for you being such a pleb and not already knowing. Still not doing it either, fricko.
It's Fred fricking Dibnah, for christ's sake. He's only been one of the most famous diyers for like 50 years now. Why don't you go and sell all your tools, you queer?
Based. Anyone who is unaware of Fred Dibnah deserves to be executed.
I have been a tradie for a decade and I have never looked up anything diy on youtube except gardening. Why the frick would I. I can ask colleagues and coworkers If I dont know something.
So who is the larper here? homosexuals who consume diy content as entertainment, rather than make things, methinks.
The anon probably thinks you're also english.
Anyone who has ever looked up diy video on YouTube knows who this guy is. Now we know you’re just a visitor from PrepHole.
my hands got sweaty just by looking at it
i also had some issues with the captcha on another board moments ago and there are like 3 posts on this board in 10 minutes including mine, is shit fricked again?
>Restoring the steamroller placed a heavy burden upon his marriage and Alison would often complain that her husband spent more time in the shed, repairing the engine, than he did in the house. He responded by naming the vehicle Alison, telling his wife "It's not every woman that has a steam engine named after her.
He was a victorian industrial era man trapped in an increasingly post industrial world.
So he was LARPing
So comforting to know “le wrong generation” isn’t new.
He was literally a professional steeplejack?
And I’m a professional carpenter.
But my shop isn’t powered by belts and pulleys.
I think you've got the wrong analogy.
And I'm a professional engineer
Yeah your shop is.
>tfw you grew up in the 80s/90s in yorkshire and this guy was all the rage
Cuz I'm Yorkshire til I die
Yorkshire til I die
His steeplejacking stuff was impressive, though he actually did a lot more stuff than that for money, he was a mason and carpenter and all that too. In fact, from what he said, he always kind of disliked working on big ass chimneys, though that's what made him famous.
The big diy interest should be that the crazy fricker built and entire working steam shop in his back yard, then once he completed that, he decided to to build a steam powered mining operation and sunk a mineshaft in his fricking garden.
>and sunk a mineshaft in his fricking garden.
He what?
Yea he legit built a small yet functional mine in his back garden, there was even a TV series albeit a short one of him doing the work.
Coal?
I don't think he did any real actual ore mining with it. He was just having fun digging a mineshaft with his steam powered tools.
Balls of pure fricking British steel.
You've got to be fit climbing ladders all day.
>British steel
Frick yeah. Manly like Judas Priest and tough as nails.
Fricking chicks is for poofs
>300 foot ladder
Sauce me fren
>BBC cameraman on a boom lift as the chimney chad builds his own ladder with no safety tie-off.
It's actually really safe from a structural perspective. The flexibility of the wooden ladders and natural rope offer resilance the dogs are pretty strong too since both of the force is vertical and the force is distributed across the whole structure.
the only thing you might add is a climbing harness and some clips to tie yourself off at
Probably the scariest part is how loose everything is lashed, and how you can see the ladders kind of shifting around a bit as he climbs them.
If you think about it though, i mean, pretty much every ladder does that. If you walk up a 10 foot ladder it probably will move and bounce around slightly, and you don't really care. But...i guess it becomes a little different when you're 300 feet up in a 20mpg crosswind.
The flex and give are an advantage in this case because of the forces around it it from the wind and shifts in the stack.
Now the really scary part is not the ladder part but when he gets up top, if someone wants to find and post a good video of that stage then we'll see how they react.
The freaking board on a rope he sits on is an eye opener. Also how he struts around his scaffold like he's dicking around on a sidewalk is pretty balsy. Especially since there's giant gaps in it that you can fall right through, not mention just fly right off the side. Of course he did that shit for like 50 years and had 0 issues with falling to his death, so what do i know?
It looks like hes tied to an anchor and has tension on the rope, that makes shit way easier, and safer obviously. I can't stand working on roofs etc with loose ropes, because they become more of a liability if you fall vs keeping it tight.
>The freaking board on a rope he sits on is an eye opener
Have you never seen a bosun's chair before?
That little segment after 9 minutes in is what gets me.
The real scary part is the fact that he doesn't even spend that much time on the scaffold. He actually stands on a 300 year old decayed, rotting chimney most of the time.
Think about that. He's standing on crumbling, rotting bricks, on a path less than 2 foot wide, as he sits there with a chisel and hammer and slowly brings the whole thing down. I mean heck, go walk around on a pile of uneven rubble on the ground and see how surefooted you are on that, much less 300 feet in the air.
Best vid of his is the one where he lights the fire under the big chimney to collapse it in the middle of some neighbourhood and it just falls perfectly where he wants it. I don’t know what kind of operation you’d need to do that these days but it sure ain’t a one man show like Mr dibnah, rip Fred you fricking legend
The early 20th century videos of people taking them down with nothing but hammers and chisels are even crazier. One wrong move and they're fricked