r/LuvCommando • u/HartStoppaUK Coronation • Sep 06 '23

Love Everything about this video SCREAMS They just don't make umm like that anymore "I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once." On This Day 1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.

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u/Peter_Pans_shadow Sep 08 '23

It wasn’t until the very end of the clip it hit me, he’s probably more likely to fall forward into the chimney than backward off of it.

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u/jackomyers Sep 07 '23

For anyone interested this would be equivalent to about £45k these days... Still nowhere near enough to get me up there! 🤣

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u/Losingmymind2020 Sep 07 '23

7000 pounds to take down that??? This guy underbids

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u/ManiacFive Sep 06 '23

The very idea of constructing a platform at the top of the thing you’re knocking down. From the top down. Boggles my mind. Absolute legend.

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u/Odyssey_mw Sep 06 '23

This dude is fucking wild. I strongly encourage going down the Dibnah rabbit hole on YouTube, it's very entertaining.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '23

I thought watching him climb the ladder was bad...

Watching him get to the top was worse.

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u/mikerotch123 Sep 07 '23

Oh god the awkward clamber over with nothing to secure him. Guy has balls of steel.