FireWorks At Home Stories

[DieselMinded]

Set off $550 Of fireworks Only one Screw up ...



buddy lite a 6 shooter and it fell over toward the crowd of 20+ ... and all hell broke loose... lots of close calls and my buddy got PEGGED in his leg ... no Report or it would of been ugly . . he has a nice Burnt Welt to take home with him... :-laf



last year he put a BIG morter in upside down on a table with about 50 LIVE morters it got ugly ... . as I seen the Flames shooting out the launch tube I knew it was bad and I took off and got about 20 yards before it went off and I still got pelted with PYRO ..... it blew every thing off the table but didnt set anything off.



Im starting to re-think my Pyro Day as it always seems bad things happen.



Had a blast tonight tho. I was a Cook , aPYRO TECH... . and A Fire Fighter ... but Ill leave that part out



DM

 

[Dl5treez]

Blowing up ECMs, almost wrecking your truck hot-rodding, having homicidal/pyromaniacal 4th of July parties... ...



You Ohio folks are a bunch of whackjobs.



Back in junior high we had one of those big "safe and sane" 500 count Saturn Missile block 'o rockets tip over at the beach & fire at us. Jetty rocks don't shield well from those things, they just ricochet off, bounce around for a bit, then go down your shorts. :-laf

 

[DieselMinded]

Man when you say it like that... ... ... ... I guess I do look bad



Oh Well ... . IT Happens



LOL



Yeah I had one of those I think there called a SATURN BATTERY Never had one of those go hair wire ... . lol ... well not yet !



DM

 

[DieselTweaker]

You Ohio folks are a bunch of whackjobs.

Took you this long to figure that out?? LOL



From the sounds of it chad you tried to burn the hill side off

 

[DieselMinded]

Only for the 5th time in the last year or so



Im bound determined to burn my hill up



1. Burn Barrel incident

2. Dang Cotton Wood Across my Power line got about 1/2 acre of my woods

3. Chemical fire BIG ONE Barly got it out (DONT ASK)

4. Burn Barrel Incident

5. Pyro Un-CONTROLAGE



Pretty handy with a spade shovel even when the fire seems to be spreading faster than your beating it out.



Fire Ext. worked well only had it for 2 days now its Empty



DM

 

[Dl5treez]

Don't bother planting your boy a tree--it'll just burn down... .



Better off getting him a nomex firesuit, or better yet full-on firefighter abestos git-up.

 

[DieselTweaker]

Im bound determined to burn my hill up



1. Burn Barrel incident

2. Dang Cotton Wood Across my Power line got about 1/2 acre of my woods

3. Chemical fire BIG ONE Barly got it out (DONT ASK)

4. Burn Barrel Incident

5. Pyro Un-CONTROLAGE



DM

OK CHAD,,, what's up with # 3 you gotta let this one out.

 

[Holysmokes]

It hasn't been a good holiday until you have had:

1 near drowning

2 drunks fall of something

3 girls decide its too hot for a bikini top

4 fireworks go sometime / somewhere they shouldn't

5 of your closest buddies being hungover first day back to work.

:-laf :-laf :-laf :-laf





P. S. And a partridge and a pear tree Oo.

 

[JoshPeters]

OK OK OK... I'll chime in here... . last night I had a party at my house... some friends over. Turbo Tweaker came over... and brought a brick of bottle rockets. Well one friend of mine was working heavily on a bottle of Whiskey. Someone Jokingly said Hold it in your teeth! So he did! Luckily he covered his face with his hands... but at the same time pinched the stick! It of course went PFFFFFFT... and didn't move. . he then threw it and it poped about 2 feet out of his hands! He poured his beer (he was drinking both... whiskey and beer... as DM said... don't ask) down his face and hands to cool them off quickly but he still got some light burns on the edges of his hands... and a burn on his lower lip! I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG LONG time!



Josh



The whole time I was sitting there in my Lawn Lazy-boy beer in hand... watching!

 

[DieselMinded]

Lips sealed on that one Zack.



Dont really want to get the Tree huggers Cryin' again



Smokes your #3 is the best ..... didnt have that :< maybe next year :>



DM

 

[Mike Ellis]

I thought I was pretty bad about doing stupid stuff, until I saw those pictures of those poor old boys who blew their faces off with the huge firecrackers



This year, I noticed at the fireworks stands they are advertising "500 gram cake, $20" but no details on what it is. I started thinking, Hmmmmm - maybe a half kilo of black powder...

 

[KBennett]

I had a lot of fun with my 7 and 10 year old boys. They had one of those little cardboard boats that has all the fireworks built in. We lit it and it did it's little scoot across the driveway. Then we stuffed a couple bottle rockets in the back and lit those, it flew across the driveway and blew the top off. My 10 year old went and got the masking tape so we could do it again. It completely came apart from the pressure created by the tape. I hope I was being a good role model



It reminded me of my youth when we used to see how far Luke Skywalker could make it in his speedster with a bottle rocket as a propellent and an M-80 in his lap



Last year I lit off a 1/4 stick in the middle of the street. After that all my neighbors would run whenever I lit anything else off in the street :-laf



It's all fun and games until the authorities get called.

 

[tURBOdIEZEl]

last year the neighbor kids from next door set the field across from our house on fire... . needless to say this year they just watched

 

[jnelson]

When I was 15 I drank 4-5 Budwieser Tallboys - then I lit the blackcat and threw the match.



BAMM! Blew up right in my hand.

 

[DieselMinded]

5 years ago



I was finally able to get ahold of some real M80's not any of those knock off's like you get today ... Buddy from Maine gave me a sack full he had for like 10 years ...



Had real thick cannon fuse ... . I stuck one in a (DIRT) bank lit it and ran away ... not knowing if these were those rip off ones or the real ones old timers are always remenising of... . as the fuse burned down ..... wwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBBBBBBBOOOOOOMMMMBBBBBBB !!







Blew a Basket ball sized hole in the bank and threw debris onto the roof of the house .



now I have 12 left



<------ I dont think this little guy is smiling half as much as I was .



Just to give you guys an idea #5 went in a Concrete Block ... . I was about 20 yards and I still got pelted with shrapnel OUCH !!!! ... it blew the top of the block it to marbels.



I wont say what I did with the rest ... ... Incase there is some mail men in the house :-laf



Now when I hear stories about M80's and getting flushed down a toliet at school I can fathom what damange that had to cause.



DM

 

[Mike Ellis]

We had a heck of a fireworks display in our area Monday night. I bet the people in the surrounding 4-5 square miles must have spent at least $100,000 on fireworks, for nearly 2 hours the big aerial displays were going off every second. The kids sat on top of the camper and had a great show.



The folks next door had a large box of mortars, the ones that put up the big spherical explosion with an "expanding ring" of smaller stars shooting out from the center. Well, their box this year was defective and a couple of them went off right above the ground on the road out in front of the houses. I happened to be walking around the corner of the house when one of them went off, there was an enormous BOOOOOMMM and that "expanding ring" of blue stars went whipping by at amazing speed. Looked like tracer bullets going across my yard



The mortars throw them so high that you don't realize how stout that explosion really is. The guy who was lighting them was trotting back toward the crowd when that one went off, bet he needed some new drawers Tuesday morning

 

[Eric_77]

This year was rather tame roman candle and bottlerocket wars acroos the volleyball courts last year was the it year for us.



Friend bought a bunch of mortars 150 or there about. He then went and bought three sheets of plywood and a bunch of PVC pipe and attached the PVC to the plywood he then bought a bunch of the rocket engine ignitors and had 10 different circuits wired up so he would light groups of 10-12 mortars at one time. Ignitors didn't work so he had 20 feet of fuse that he wired them all together with so it would go one after the other about 20 secs apart. Well PVC was all one size mortars we found out were two different sizes (1 1/2 and 1 3/8 I think were the sizes) well the larger ones went great launched the normal (70-80'?) and exploded the smaller ones(or maybe the larger ones got stuck in the tubes so vice versa) I guess didn't get the right oomph at ignition and well we had 40 to 50 blow off in the 10-15' range with us 20-30' away needless to say we all got pelted with very hot glowing mortar framents, no major injuries or fires

 

[Dieselnut59]

Bottle rocket wars were always fun. We used to set up two teams of 4-5 on each team, each individual armed with several hundred dollars worth of fireworks (mostly bottle rockets) and shoot them at each other across a 1-2 acre pond. We had guns and other devices set up to launch from. I had one of the best "cannons" built for launching a dozen (unwrapped) bottle rockets at a time. It was a 1. 5" piece of steel pipe about a foot long with a slot cut to lay a dozen bottle rockets in. I carefully planned the building of this thing to where the fuses were just exposed after the bottle rockets were inserted. They were then all lit at once with a propane torch. The device also had a threaded adjustable stand which would adjust the launch height from about 30 degrees to about 45 degrees. I perfected the use of this thing so well that it ended up being me and one other guy (with similar artillary) against everyone else. No one was ever really injured in our events, even after 3 or 4 years of doing similar events at New Years and Independence day. Now, the little bottle rockets are outlawed in SC because of too many people shooting them at each other (apparantly at too close of range) and getting hurt. Haven't made the trip to Tennessee in a while to get some from there. No decent fireworks are available in Georgia, only this year were the "ground based" (aka CHEESIE) fireworks made legal.

 

[DieselMinded]

So Who can buy the real M80's in there home state ???



DM

 

[jwilliams3]

Alabama I think can.