Fred Dibnah

Frederick Travis Dibnah, MBE (28 April 1938 – 6 November 2004), was an English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering, who described himself as a "backstreet mechanic".

Quotes

• Really you're dicing with death, with a rotten old top on the chimney. There's been a lot of men died fiddling with those things. I've never fallen off a big chimney; you only fall off one of them once!
  • Quoted in David Hall Fred: The Definitive Biography of Fred Dibnah, London: Corgi Books, 2007, p. 164