9 Fred Dibnah Quotes on Work

Fred Dibnah quotes on work

7. 'Steam engines don't answer back. You can belt them with a hammer and they say nowt.'

11. 'I'm just a bum who climbs chimneys.'

12. '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.'

13. '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.'

14. 'If you make one mistake, it's half a day out with the undertaker.'

16. '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''.

20. 'That's Bolton's biggest chimney that... and I climbed it for a ten bob wager. Never did get the ten bob though.'

21. 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'.

22. 'I've never fell off a big chimney. You'd only fall off one of them once.'