- Location
- South wales
I’m sorry but you can’t compare the 2
Fred Dibnah laddering a chimney
- Thread starter Clive
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I think you can ! They are all climbing high structures without any safety harness
if they fell the result would be the same
it’s not clever ! Whoever you are
Fred was clearly a very skilled man though
- Location
- South wales
He was a very clever bloke climbing chimneys with no harness doesn’t make him any less
let’s agree to disagree
personally I don’t think it’s a very clever thing to do ! I suspect HSE would agree with me no matter how skilled or cleaver you claimed you were
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Fred was climbing to do a job, the climbers are climbing to test themselves, with no economic benefit for anyonebut themselves.
livestock 1
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I would say keeping the ropes inside dry and ladders would be as important as anything
davedb
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- Location
- Staffordshire
It’s the way it’s done that makes it clever them kids climb up a structure like a ladder to make a video, Fred uses his experience and knowledge to fix his ladders in a safe way so he doesn’t die, he works his way up to do a job it was a skilled occupation not a idiot looking for internet fame like the people your comparing him too
He was an enormously skilled bloke not only doing his climbing but as an engineer too, what he did was no different than climbing a mountain they dont use HSE they use skill and years of learning from others, the thing about those that are really skilled at whatever they do is they make it look easy.
I have seen north american indians etc walking across beams many storeys up without any bother.
I have seen north american indians etc walking across beams many storeys up without any bother.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
There's was a sale from his house last year but i think the engines were already gone. Some chap bought the house and contents and tried to raffle off the house,
Netherfield
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- Location
- West Yorkshire
We had all of Fred on VHS, when the machine died it didn't get replaced, passed them on to dad,hr must have given them someone else or my sister threw them out in one of her purges, they weren't there when we cleared the house earlier in the year.
“clever” would be to simply tie a safety rope around you !
Impressive / skilled as he is he’s not “clever”
I do enjoy watching his stuff though, amazing man
what is the point of this thread
Probably because it was a different time.
Hardly a nutter. Clever bloke who kbew exactly what he was doing.
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spanners and hammers
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- Location
- cambridgeshire
oh no smoking in the work place don't let hse know !!!
davedb
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- Location
- Staffordshire
Simply how? It could only be tied to your ladder below you and need constant moving as you climbed up
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