Think Your job is tough... Think on

What an awesome job! Hard to tell but didn't look like he was clipped in for most of it apart from the big rest thing? Easy enough climb but he looked pretty tired by the time he'd dragged his bag past the red pipe!!

 

fred dibnah and my grandad were very close pals...met him a quite a few times before he died... lovely bloke with some serious story's to tell.... funny thing is, they were all true!

 

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i remember watching an episode where his hat fell off, he put it back on carried on. roll forward a few days and he was fucked right up as the hat fell in some shit and he got some serious illness from it.

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he had a mrs like half his age too.

i liked the way he just used to get a load of wooden ladders and lash 'em together with some rope and just as you say fuck straight on up there.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg]YouTube - Fred Dibnah How to climb a chimney overhang at 50+[/ame]

 

The man was one of my heroes - IIRC died around the same time as John Peel, another one of my heroes.
Totally down to earth, and so happy just tinkering with shit. His fabrication skills would make even Nickson's rollcages look basic.

His interview technique was legendary - he'd ask a question and then say "Yeh. Yeh. Yeh. Mmmhm. Yeh." machine gun style without even looking at the bloke he had asked the question. When the guy finished talking Fred would just rant off on something unrelated. What a man, Paxman could have learnt something from him.

 

Check out the pictures of Dibnahs home workshop too, steam powered mine thing going on in his back garden.

 

That he built himself. Makes a V8 conversion look pretty straightforward ID imagine

 

my grandads workshop is pretty spectacular too... he was well into wrought iron works and the like.... also a prefessional panel beater etc... theres not a lot he couldnt fabricate. these sort of people are so talented and ive got respect for them by the truckloads. but as fred dibnah said... the age is coming to an end and there just arent many people interested anymore.

 

wow, would of thought they would base jump back down though..

 

I couldn't even watch that video to the end !!

 

ermm yeah fuck that lol i hate heights lol

 

mate that first vid made me feel ill

i had to got in the garden and take a piss cos i didnt wanna go up stairs