if you thought fred dibnah was dodgy

[brightspark]

this bloke takes the biscuit and wins hands down Nerves of steel - demolition of the chimney with a Pneumatic Hammer - YouTube

 

[123hotchef]

Yikes

 

[Bullet2012]

he probably has vodka with two sugars and brandy on his weetabix.

 

[8ob]

His brother is a tree surgeon, https://worldstar.com/video.php?v=wshh39j9OlK3U47OH4o4

 

[JEZGUZ]

New teeth please Nurse

 

[8ob]

Twas an uppercut .

Bob

 

[stuvy]

His brother is a tree surgeon, https://worldstar.com/video.php?v=wshh39j9OlK3U47OH4o4

And I thought it was going through the house

 

[stuvy]

this bloke takes the biscuit and wins hands down Nerves of steel - demolition of the chimney with a Pneumatic Hammer - YouTube

cool as a cucumber

 

[skotl]

cool as a cucumber

Yep - I'd have been running a lot faster than that!

 

[EM1L4]

this bloke takes the biscuit and wins hands down Nerves of steel - demolition of the chimney with a Pneumatic Hammer - YouTube

That is bonkers, love the way he calmly walks away with enough time to pick up the tools on his way

 

[EM1L4]

His brother is a tree surgeon, https://worldstar.com/video.php?v=wshh39j9OlK3U47OH4o4

Natural Selection?

 

[James1979]

Never run! You’re more likely to trip then you’re screwed. Walk fast.

I’m not a chimney felling expert but the never run thing is taught on courses I’ve been on where you set something off then walk away.

He got 35000 usd for that according to the description which is probably life changing there.

 

[brightspark]

i knocked my brick wash house down similar knocked the bricks out on all 4 sides just leaving the corner brick pillars using my road drill jack hammer stuck the chissel in one corner and pulled the trigger . the lot just instantly dropped roof and all with a great rumble my mother and father and wifey ran round to see if i was all right . yep im still here

 

[johnik]

at least the chimney fella was wearing his hard hat, H&S would be happy

 

[pressbrake1]

There’s a few videos on the tube from the 20s and 30s of just cutting away until it falls

 

[EM1L4]

What’s unsafe about this

He was so high off the ground they had to use a lorry mounted MEWP to film it...

 

[Barking Mat]

Deathwish, jumps to mind.

 

[daleyd]

Never run! You’re more likely to trip then you’re screwed. Walk fast.

I’m not a chimney felling expert but the never run thing is taught on courses I’ve been on where you set something off then walk away.

He got 35000 usd for that according to the description which is probably life changing there.

I was on course today and we touched on the procedure excavator operators are told about hv power lines - if they strike the cab they stay in and if they really have to escape they are supposed to “shuffle” away to minimise the potential difference between their feet (can be thousands of volts difference in the length of a stride) - yeah righto

 

[Barking Mat]

Read the first dozen comments on that video, they've bought a tear to my eye, some comedy gold there.

 

[qwakers]

Fred dibnah wasn't dodgy, he had a excellent understanding of the physics of what he did, safe as houses.... he wouldn't have got away with it for more than 40 years if he didn't...

he mentioned the 'jackhammer and run' types several times on his videos... and he thought they where crazy!