Anyone here do their own fireworks show?

I'm gearing up to make "the run" on Sunday and am giddy with excitement. I've already ordered almost 300 feet of variable speed fuse, started construction of our third (!) mini-barge, and have been planning and reviewing videos of past years' shows like mad, diagramming piece placement and fusing schemes/delay times.

Any other small time pyrotechnicians on the board?

Yeah, it's fun to blow stuff up.....

when you're 9.

Yup, I am a toal FOOL for the darn things...I put on a 20 minute show at the annual BBQ. I built special lauch platforms for various types of cakes, tubes, and repeaters.

I wire up various sections of the repeaters and the finale to a remote control detonator...total pyro here.

the widow next door to me gives her grandkids about $10k every year for fireworks. One of the grandkids has a class lll fire marshal license.

It is a spectacular show...

^ I am limited to what I can do with consumer fireworks. The new 500 gram repeaters are really nice though, and I have built a half dozen racks for mortars. If the fusing is timed correctly, it is pretty impressive, although nowhere near what you get with the Class B stuff that your neighbors get, chief. Heap pretty. Heap BOOM.

We have a better show in the neighborhood than most towns around us... we have a guy that spends over 10K every year and has to have the licensed pyro guys come set them off... local fire dept comes out and passes the boot around for donations so I think maybe he gets a tax credit for fund raising or something... I dunno tho... I just enjoy the great show every year....

It's also fun to blow stuff up when you're 41.

cbc812, I'm not sure what it takes to get Fire Marshal license--might be worth looking into...I have another friend who has an Oregon license, and he's not someone who 'did well in school' if you know what I mean.

I love the smell of fireworks!

Until my buddy Steve died, every year we made a road trip to a local fireworks supplier and get enough fireworks to fill up a small pickup. He and his wife would have an annual 4th of July party. We would put on a show lighting the individual fireworks. My thumb burned to a crisp for days.

Basically I just cut out the middle man and set my neighbors roof on fire.

Chief - I've looked into it, and in the state where we have our July 4th party, getting licensed basically requires an apprenticeship with an established fireworks company.

ALL fireworks are basically illegal in this state, anyway, so I'm perfectly content to continue living dangerously with consumer grade stuff. We shoot from the middle of a private lake, and the only other houses on the lake plan their gatherings around our show, so I doubt we'll have complaints.

A friend on the local FD arranged for me to take a "tour" of a pro display being put on for a summer festival weekend in town with one of the professional pyro guys. Really cool....but pretty scary. Don't know if I'd really want to mess with that stuff.

I think being in the middle of a big display would be scary, too. 'Powder magazine' comes to mind.

look engine scared of magic fire god controlled by whitey

"It’s also fun to blow stuff up when you’re 41."

Fireworks……

“chick, chick, chick, fire……tssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssst …FIRE, LIGHTS……BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, POP, POP, BOOM, BOOM, FIRE, LIGHTS, FIRE LIGHTS, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, POP, POP, BOOM, BOOM, FIRE, LIGHTS, FIRE LIGHTS, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, POP, POP, BOOM, BOOM, FIRE, LIGHTS, FIRE LIGHTS, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, POP, POP, BOOM, BOOM, FIRE, LIGHTS, LIGHTS…………BOOM!!………………pop…………whistle……….”

That was cool. How much was that one?

$14.

Romancandle fights are fun. Bottlerockets down the street are comical.

^ #14

Did you have a bad experience with fireworks as a child? Kind of weird thatany cigar smoker would slag on a hobby that entails lighting expensive things on fire....

Duct-tape,1/4 stick and 4 cans of hairspray........Try it very entertaining!!!!

Herf....I'm not even gonna try to defend liking fireworks. Not sure why I'd have to. You have fire and explosions...nuff said!!

^ #18

Seriously, WTF?

15. Author: 05busa Date: 05/29/2009 04:45 PM Reply

Romancandle fights are fun. Buttholerockets are comical, too

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