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A hero of mine much like superhunky but of the steam and coal era, I was born 20 or so miles away, loved his beer and smoke and did some crazy shit during his lifetime! Died of cancer a couple of years ago.


Really cool old school kinda guy




Watch this until the end, he dropped tens of chimneys by removing bricks and propping up the chimney with big hunks of wood he then lit a fire and burnt out the wood! The guy is a true ultimate hoon I tell ya!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 988667.stm#

He never hurt anyone but pleanty of houses got 200 mph brick shrapnel


A writeup on him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Dibnah

If I had'nt moved here 7 years ago I would still sound like this

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... &plindex=7


People like this really make me miss home

Check out these quotes, the guy is a legend!!!!

"Did yer like that!?"
" Mmmm. Aye. Oh aye. Y'know?"
"A man who says he feels no fear is either a fool or a liar."
"I realise that steam engines aren't everyone's cup of tea. But they're what made England great."
"The modern world stinks."
"We've become a nation of con men, living by selling double glazing to each other."
"Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt."
"I set out as a steeplejack in my youth to preserve chimneys. I've finished by knocking most of them down."
"Height gives you a wonderful feeling of grandeur. You're the king of the castle up here."
"I have a wash more now than I used to y'know... I have a shower everynight."
"I'm just a bum who climbs chimneys."
"Anybody who destroys anything made of stone should be prosecuted. It is not all beautiful, but it took a man all day to make one stone."
"Steeplejacking's a bit of a spasmodic job, so you can play with your steam engine instead. It's a bit like being very rich."
"If you make one mistake, it's half a day out with the undertaker."
"It's a funny thing this celebrity. If you don't wave back you're a miserable bugger, if you do wave back you're a big-headed bugger. I don't know."
"The thing is nowadays, you'll have 20 men working, yet 60 men telling them 'You can't do that, you ain't got a tin hat on'".
"Teaching boys to bake cakes? That's no way to maintain an industrial empire."
"By 'eck it were grand."
"Them fancy London types don't know the pleasure of eating chips with fingers"
"That's Bolton's biggest chimney that... and I climbed it for a ten bob wager. Never did get the ten bob though."
Fred also previously received two honorary doctorates ..... They were both given by the relevant engineering faculties, but Fred always told people that they were for "back street mechanicing".
"I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once."

britincali wrote:Check out these quotes, the guy is a legend!!!!

"Them fancy London types don't know the pleasure of eating chips with fingers"

Sounds like he's talk 'bout me pops here. Always told me to eat'em with a fork.