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English steeplejack and television personality, with a keen interest in mechanical engineering

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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".

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Birth Name: Frederick Dibnah

Alternative Names: Frederick Travis Dibnah

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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!