[CJKarl]

Don't know if I posted this here, (didn't find it in search)
Check this out. I ended up searching around youtube and watched about 2 hours of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhpMiKds8lc

 

[naptown CR]

Cool way to take down a chmney

 

[lukachuki]

Fascinating! What exactly is he doing besides lighting some tires and misc wood at the base. Is he destabilizing it somehow? Just curious as to his methods.

 

[CJKarl]

Yes, he knocks the base out couple feet at a time and shores it up with wooden posts. Light fire, burn out posts.

 

[lukachuki]

Yes, he knocks the base out couple feet at a time and shores it up with wooden posts. Light fire, burn out posts.

Ok that makes sense! Still pretty amazing!

 

[jkfox624]

He was a hell of alot closer than id ever be.

 

[insane]

Fred Dibnah, I could watch his videos for hours. My favorite is the one where he sets up his scaffold on a stack, working from a bosun's chair.
That man had some serious balls. :notworthy:notworthy:notworthy

Tim

 

[CJKarl]

Here's how to build a scaffold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W_7uIapoHc&feature=related

 

[CJKarl]

How to take down a giant chimney brick by brick. Check out his cable-bucket-lift set up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezX_o0H5FuE&feature=fvw

 

[dakzaag]

Fred is my hero, my wife is trying to have me committed.

 

[lukachuki]

Yeah it's 4:00 in the morning and i have been watching fred dibnah videos for some time now. Fascinating! Makes me want to get into steam engines as a hobby not that I could use one right now. Back when i was a whipper snapper (i'm 35 now) they would still use steam tractors to plow huge acreages in Western Ks. They would hook a bunch of plows together until they had an incredibly wide swath and then hook it to the torque monster of a steam engine and creep along the field....when they finally got to the other side they would turn turn it all around. Amazing.

I think i go to bed now.