Fred! You plank!

[Rupe]

Maybe this should be in videos section, but I thought it should go in the rigging section!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc&feature=related

Not seen this clip before, its great. Try and spot the PPE.

I'll give you a clue, there isn't any!!

 

[Tom Dunlap]

When was that taped?

 

[SirTreeRat]

Wow, thanks Rupe, that guy is not affaid of hieghts.

 

[RDMOTT]

Whatever they're paying him it ain't enough.

 

[Colin]

Very impressive!

 

[Colin]

I wonder what the scaffolding was for? Was it still being built?

 

[RDMOTT]

I think maybe they were doing some repairs like repointing. Seen some work near here being done on a chimney like that one but not that tall. They were using a really big crane with the jib and the guys were working out of a man basket. It was maybe 200 feet tall.

 

[Gerald_Beranek]

There were more parts to that video. I'd like to see the rest.

 

[TC]

Fred Dibnah is a folk hero in the UK, he died a few years back from cancer. He had his own TV show at one time. He was fascinated by anything Victorian - bridges, trains, steam engines, chimney stacks, industrial mills, canals etc.

He will be best remembered for his felling of giant 400ft plus chimneys in which he actually made a notch by removing bricks at the base of the chimney and inserting wooden props to hold the chimney up then he'd build a huge fire and the props would burn away allowing the chimney to fall.

 

[Phil]

A chimney ultimatly destroyed by a fire...mmmmm, i love irony

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Wow

I like that guy. I can't believe he had the balls to be up there without his safety harness on when he was installing the corner boards.

I hate working in the wind. I noticed near the end his line was blowing way out there. Today I worked all day with rough winds.

 

[Jamin_Mayer]

Wow. Check out his felling skills.

 

[Colin]

I like the environmentally friendly tires for fuel, LOL.

 

[Rupe]

Tom, I'm guessing mid to late seventies?

 

[Rupe]

In later years he got more eccentric and built a replica working coal mine in his back yard!

Here he is trying to measure the depth of the ravine to work out how deep the mine shaft needs to be!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZXCfK_HHSg&feature=related

 

[Tino]

I remember watching this guy on TV. As soon as I read the title I knew it was going to be Fred Dibnah. Thanks Rupe for bring back a memory

 

[CHOPPER]

"fall and you'll spend half a day with the undertaker"

 

[kage]

oy vei, i'm not afraid of heights , but that's nuts

 

[sean_freeman]

Thanks to everyone who posted links up in this thread just spent a great afternoon out of the flooding rain watching Fred...bloomin magic...yes no ppe

, but what a bloke...great clollection of vids on youtube, listening to him took me back to being with my gran in Wendsleydale

 

[Mangoes]

Wendsleydale = Eden