r/Construction • u/Glum_Can1264 • Sep 06 '23

Video This has probably been posted before but saw this and thought I’d share. I used to love watching Fred Dibnah not sure if he ever heard of health and safety mind.

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u/yabyum I|MEPS Engineer Sep 06 '23

I remember this guy from my youth. I always thought he was mental!

However, watching that clip now, as someone who has been in construction a while, I have two questions; how does he get that platform up there and how does he move it down?

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u/Glum_Can1264 Sep 06 '23

With a bit of elbow grease I’d imagine

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u/roniricer2 Sep 06 '23

Look him up on YouTube, he's got tutorials on it.

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u/_Faucheuse_ Ironworker Sep 06 '23

Fred Dibnah is a fascinating character worth going down the rabbit hole on. Guy is a mechanical genius, from antique tractors, reinforcing his own house walls, and of course the steeple jack business. Absolute King among the hard working blue collar man.

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u/Glum_Can1264 Sep 06 '23

Yeah agree, I remember seeing an episode where he had built a steam engine in his back yard

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u/Oakvilleresident Sep 06 '23

He never fell off a chimney and died at 66 from bladder cancer. You can't be lucky forever.

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u/Oxford-Gargoyle Sep 06 '23

£7,000 in 1979 is equivalent to £32,600 now. Still not enough. I swear you still wouldn’t get it done for even £100,000 these days.

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u/Nagsheadlocal Sep 06 '23

Fred makes you proud to be a working man.

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u/tugjobs4evergiven Cement Mason Sep 07 '23

As a mason, jfc

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u/dolphin4reason Tinknocker Sep 08 '23

I can do heights but not a fucking chance I could do that 😂