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Title: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: CaptainZok on 29 June 2013, 14:38:34: Good old Fred posing for a photo on top of Bolton Parish Church. Now that's what I call a head for heights.
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12034245/Fred.jpg)
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: chrisgixer on 29 June 2013, 15:05:06: Camera man is doing well too. :o

Guessing he has another 3 to do as well?
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: tunnie on 29 June 2013, 16:26:36: Ahh Fred Dibnah, such a character love the TV shows he did, such enthusiasm. :)
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Rods2 on 29 June 2013, 17:27:13: No H&S risk assessments existed for much of his career and he didn't die with his boots on. :y :y :y
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Nick W on 29 June 2013, 17:39:55: Quote from: Rods2 on 29 June 2013, 17:27:13
No H&S risk assessments existed for much of his career and he didn't die with his boots on. :y :y :y

Of course they did.
They're just something you did without falling for any of the procedural bullshit that has become more important than the actual risk.
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: tunnie on 29 June 2013, 17:40:43: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R3-YwDZrzg)
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: tunnie on 29 June 2013, 17:41:43: This is what I mostly remember from him though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_pt73HLV7w (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_pt73HLV7w)
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: scimmy_man on 29 June 2013, 18:13:17: Nice bloke, I had a pint with him once.
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Tony H on 29 June 2013, 18:20:40: Fred is a legend :y
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: omega3000 on 29 June 2013, 18:26:56: Quote from: Tony H on 29 June 2013, 18:20:40
Fred is a legend :y

+1 :y I bet he had a fag on ... H&S what a load of tosh >:( >:( >:(
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Lizzie_Zoom on 29 June 2013, 19:10:07: Quote from: Tony H on 29 June 2013, 18:20:40
Fred is a legend :y

+1

My ex had an uncle, called Billy Caton, who was a high level steeplejack. He once had a photograph taken in the much same way as Fred in that picture, but doing a hand stand on top of a very high chimney!

He also had claim to fame by once falling off a Kodak factory chimney and landing in a wheel barrow. Badly injured, but he survived. His last work before he retired was working "in the lights" at The Albert Hall. His big problem though was he loved his drink, and was rarely sober apart from when he was climbing chimneys and church spires! :D :D :)
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 29 June 2013, 19:27:34: No hard hat, no hi-viz, no BS!!! Just getting on with it!! :y
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Mr.OmegaMan on 29 June 2013, 19:47:27: Quote from: Emd on 29 June 2013, 18:26:56
Quote from: Tony H on 29 June 2013, 18:20:40
Fred is a legend :y

+1 :y I bet he had a fag on ... H&S what a load of tosh >:( >:( >:(

+2 used to watch the ammazing stuff he did on sky 1 freeview channel 11 ... R.I.P :y
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: CaptainZok on 29 June 2013, 20:30:23: Quote from: Sir Tigger on 29 June 2013, 19:27:34
No hard hat, no hi-viz, no BS!!! Just getting on with it!! :y
He's stood at the top of the highest building in the area what good would a hard hat be?
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 29 June 2013, 22:54:52: Quote from: CaptainZok on 29 June 2013, 20:30:23
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 29 June 2013, 19:27:34
No hard hat, no hi-viz, no BS!!! Just getting on with it!! :y
He's stood at the top of the highest building in the area what good would a hard hat be?

Exactly!! :)
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Vamps on 29 June 2013, 23:08:06: Quote from: Sir Tigger on 29 June 2013, 22:54:52
Quote from: CaptainZok on 29 June 2013, 20:30:23
Quote from: Sir Tigger on 29 June 2013, 19:27:34
No hard hat, no hi-viz, no BS!!! Just getting on with it!! :y
He's stood at the top of the highest building in the area what good would a hard hat be?

Exactly!! :)

+1....... :y :y

Loved the guys tv shows though, so down to earth and practical...... :y :y
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Post by: PhilRich on 29 June 2013, 23:10:41: Fred was the type of Brit who built the Empire. His breed are nearly all gone now, never to be seen again in this guise sadly :(
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Post by: CaptainZok on 29 June 2013, 23:17:49: He's honoured with a statue in town next to an old mill engine which is preserved in a glass case.
A fitting tribute to a great Boltonian.
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Vamps on 29 June 2013, 23:22:38: Quote from: CaptainZok on 29 June 2013, 23:17:49
He's honoured with a statue in town next to an old mill engine which is preserved in a glass case.
A fitting tribute to a great Boltonian.

:y :y
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: Sir Tigger KC on 30 June 2013, 00:34:49: Fred's last chimney! :y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx-NxIWAHOY

An amazingly simple way to demolish a large chimney. I doubt they'd let him do it like this now, as it would fail the emissions test!! ;)
Title: Re: Enough to give the H&S brigade nightmares.
Post by: BazaJT on 30 June 2013, 10:16:42: Yes used to love watching his programmes on telly.He knew his stuff,also have his biography a cracking book about a cracking bloke.