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Post by hoffgreen on Apr 25, 2020 11:04:11 GMT
At the end of the video, blimey!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2020 11:49:28 GMT
I can't stand heights. Fair play to Fred but that video made me feel quite sick.
Modern day Health and Safety would be all over that like a rash.
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Post by hoffgreen on Apr 25, 2020 12:07:36 GMT
I can't stand heights. Fair play to Fred but that video made me feel quite sick. Modern day Health and Safety would be all over that like a rash. Dees... Its ironic really, he was demolishing the very architecture and symbols of the industrial revolution that he loved and appreciated. I remember reading Fred used to love riding on the steam trains as a young lad around Bolton and would regularly be up front helping to shovel coal into the red hot engine. He was from another era where men gave no quarter and never asked for none. Hard blokes who were only concerned about putting the next meal on the table.
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Post by raythesailor on Apr 25, 2020 12:54:56 GMT
Like Deeside I am not very good with heights.
That was amazing to watch but made me very uncomfortable. Especially when he is out of the chair on the planks and NO SAFETY LINES !
God bless him he then climbs back down with a fag in his mouth 😀
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Post by JoeinOz on Apr 25, 2020 13:24:11 GMT
He was my favourite steeplejack
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Post by chuffedstokie on Apr 25, 2020 13:29:11 GMT
Wrote his own rules didn't he. Burrowing into chimneys then setting them on fire without killing half a town must take some practice. Often wondered where you get the experience from for that sort of thing.?
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Post by hoffgreen on Apr 25, 2020 14:09:38 GMT
Wrote his own rules didn't he. Burrowing into chimneys then setting them on fire without killing half a town must take some practice. Often wondered where you get the experience from for that sort of thing.? I think he worked with steeplejacks as a lad? I'm not sure. The art of bringing down those chimneys though like they did goes back to medieval times. That's precisely how the siege was ended by burrowing deep under the castle walls and setting a fire. Gradually waiting until the wall was weakened until eventually collapsing.
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Post by hoffgreen on Apr 25, 2020 14:12:01 GMT
Like Deeside I am not very good with heights. That was amazing to watch but made me very uncomfortable. Especially when he is out of the chair on the planks and NO SAFETY LINES ! God bless him he then climbs back down with a fag in his mouth 😀 Ray my favourite Fred quote. "One slip and its half a day out with the undertaker" 😀
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Post by hoffgreen on Apr 25, 2020 14:21:15 GMT
I was going back home once years ago over the tops Longnor way. There was an almighty traffic jam like I'd not seen in those parts but we were slow moving. Eventually got to the hold up, good old Fred and family on his traction engine! We gave him a beep as we went past 👍
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Post by crowey on Apr 25, 2020 15:32:37 GMT
..... so how does he compare to Blaster Bates?
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Post by swampmongrel on Apr 25, 2020 20:33:50 GMT
He was my favourite steeplejack He was decent but he wouldn’t make my top 5. But, it’s all about different opinions.
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Post by longdistancekiddie on Apr 25, 2020 22:02:44 GMT
Great stuff.
The series about him was very good.
Great man to work with but hard to live with,. Apparently.
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Post by wagsastokie on Apr 26, 2020 5:02:11 GMT
..... so how does he compare to Blaster Bates? Inherited a collection of blaster Bates LPs off my uncle haven't listened to them for thirty years The one that I remember most was the warming of the pork pie so the jelly ran in the crematorium ovens
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Post by partickpotter on Apr 26, 2020 6:11:24 GMT
..... so how does he compare to Blaster Bates? Inherited a collection of blaster Bates LPs off my uncle haven't listened to them for thirty years The one that I remember most was the warming of the pork pie so the jelly ran in the crematorium ovens This Blaster Bates story is engrained in my brain!
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Post by wagsastokie on Apr 26, 2020 6:39:22 GMT
Inherited a collection of blaster Bates LPs off my uncle haven't listened to them for thirty years The one that I remember most was the warming of the pork pie so the jelly ran in the crematorium ovens This Blaster Bates story is engrained in my brain! Brought back memories of listening to those as a kid with me uncle Shall have to locate where I've put them and dust them down and have a listen
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Post by Dutchpeter on Apr 26, 2020 7:38:55 GMT
I remember overtaking Fred Dibnah going through Meir (pre tunnel). He was driving a maroon coloured Land Rover, with his name/company sign painted on the side. So it begs the question, did Fred ever do any work in Stoke?
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Post by chuffedstokie on Apr 26, 2020 7:55:03 GMT
Building those chimneys in the first place couldn't have been a walk in the park. At least he'd got his fags and matches with him. You can count me in with the heights thing. 🤢
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Post by basingstokie on Apr 26, 2020 12:40:10 GMT
There's no way you'd get me up there with all the harnesses in the world. Great little video
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Post by hoffgreen on Apr 26, 2020 12:59:29 GMT
There's no way you'd get me up there with all the harnesses in the world. Great little video Me neither! I think though as Fred states at the very start of the film, scaffolding has been a tradition going back centuries. Think how our Cathedrals were built. They wouldn't have been possible without a scaffold. So I think that Fred drops that in early and clearly states that ALL trades were valued and were the sum of their parts. Scaffoler, Mason, roofer, joiner, bricklayer etc I love visiting our Cathedrals and looking up asking myself, how did they do that?!
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Post by innocentbystander on Apr 26, 2020 14:05:46 GMT
I remember overtaking Fred Dibnah going through Meir (pre tunnel). He was driving a maroon coloured Land Rover, with his name/company sign painted on the side. So it begs the question, did Fred ever do any work in Stoke? One of his favourite places was Klondike Mill at Draycott in the Clay, a sort of cooperative club for traction engine enthusiasts (according to his Biography). He spent some of his last days there.
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Post by raythesailor on Apr 26, 2020 15:28:37 GMT
There's no way you'd get me up there with all the harnesses in the world. Great little video Me neither! I think though as Fred states at the very start of the film, scaffolding has been a tradition going back centuries. Think how our Cathedrals were built. They wouldn't have been possible without a scaffold. So I think that Fred drops that in early and clearly states that ALL trades were valued and were the sum of their parts. Scaffoler, Mason, roofer, joiner, bricklayer etc I love visiting our Cathedrals and looking up asking myself, how did they do that?! Have you read Ken Follet? He wrote novels involving the building and designs of cathedrals. Very good reads
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Post by Boothen on Apr 26, 2020 18:45:08 GMT
Love Fred, proper English hero. But that chimney though, and I thought it was high when we used to climb the old Boothen End floodlights at night and sit up there drinking beer and smoking weed.
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Post by zerps on Apr 26, 2020 18:53:37 GMT
Love Fred, proper English hero. But that chimney though, and I thought it was high when we used to climb the old Boothen End floodlights at night and sit up there drinking beer and smoking weed. What a time to be alive
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Post by murphthesurf on Apr 26, 2020 19:06:55 GMT
Wrote his own rules didn't he. Burrowing into chimneys then setting them on fire without killing half a town must take some practice. Often wondered where you get the experience from for that sort of thing?Burning the school gym down would be a good place to start......
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Post by murphthesurf on Apr 26, 2020 19:11:26 GMT
There's no way you'd get me up there with all the harnesses in the world. Great little video Same here. Can't stand heights. I get nosebleeds & then faint if I wear an extra pair of socks or heels over 2".
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Post by murphthesurf on Apr 26, 2020 19:17:14 GMT
..... so how does he compare to Blaster Bates? Inherited a collection of blaster Bates LPs off my uncle haven't listened to them for thirty years The one that I remember most was the warming of the pork pie so the jelly ran in the crematorium ovens Saw him live one evening somewhere Congleton-ish in the 1970s - hilarious. Especially remember a story about a tiger.
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Post by Timmypotter on Apr 26, 2020 19:37:52 GMT
My dad used to renovate old wagons (Leylands and Vulcans) and take them to traction engine rallies. By all accounts Fred Dibnah wasn't averse to having one tin too many each night and then terrorising the site on a traction engine.
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Post by chuffedstokie on Apr 26, 2020 19:56:19 GMT
Wrote his own rules didn't he. Burrowing into chimneys then setting them on fire without killing half a town must take some practice. Often wondered where you get the experience from for that sort of thing?Burning the school gym down would be a good place to start...... That was an unfortunate accident, same with the scout hut. Officer!.🤔🤦♂️👼
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Post by wagsastokie on Apr 26, 2020 20:10:11 GMT
Inherited a collection of blaster Bates LPs off my uncle haven't listened to them for thirty years The one that I remember most was the warming of the pork pie so the jelly ran in the crematorium ovens Saw him live one evening somewhere Congleton-ish in the 1970s - hilarious. Especially remember a story about a tiger. Probably right on the location born crewe buried in St Mary's Sandbach Town center Company Based in Cheshire
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