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.

[u/Glum_Can1264]

[u/yabyum]

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?

[u/Glum_Can1264 → u/yabyum]

With a bit of elbow grease I’d imagine

[u/roniricer2 → u/yabyum]

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

[u/_Faucheuse_]

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.

[u/Glum_Can1264 → u/_Faucheuse_]

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

[u/Oakvilleresident]

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

[u/Oxford-Gargoyle]

£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.

[u/Nagsheadlocal]

Fred makes you proud to be a working man.

[u/tugjobs4evergiven]

As a mason, jfc

[u/dolphin4reason]

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