Calling all pyros: Coolest fireworks tricks?

[gordontron]

Please don't set off fireworks in dangerous places...like the whole of Texas. But lets just say you had a pile of your favorite fireworks (and not just the legal kind either). What are you favorite tricks to do with them? Some of my old favorites are twisting a bunch of bottlerockets together to get a ton (my record is 7) going at once. Those little tanks are also fun to aim at eachother and have mini battle reinactments. Others?


and be careful, you wouldn't want your celebration to end up like this fire works factory: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/fireworkfactory.html

happy new years! :toast:

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. We used to take metal fishing pole holders - the kind that are a tube

with a long spike, that one drives into the shore of a river or lake, or then one cannot insert one's fishing pole in it and sit back and not have to hole the pole...

anyway, we'd take those, shove 'em in the ground, fill 'em with bottle rockets - we could get probably 36 or so of the smallish ones in it - and then set one of those sparking cones underneath. A big cone. Light the cone, and as it sparks, it keeps lighting the bottle rockets and sending 'em up.

A truly cool thing!

(our fishing pole holders were made of steel, so this was safe; do not with modern plastic ones)

[gordontron]

2. nice!

I'm surprised how few pyros there seems to be around here..

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. We also had an anvil, and we would take it out to the field

and fill the hole on top with black powder, insert a fuse, lay a piece of steel rail (maybe 80 guage, weighed probably 50 pounds) on top, and light that fucker off.

KABOOOOOOOOM! It rattled the house and sent the rail often about the same height as the power lines.

That and the dynamite, and July 4 was always a fucking great night!

Ah, the benefits of having farmers in the family and a farm to celebrate at...

[gordontron]

4. did you make the black powder or were you able to procure some?

nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. No, we just bought it at the gun store.

My family has always had cartons of it just lying around. Lots of blackpowder guns, and also, we just like blolwing shit up with it. Always have!

[carpetbagger]

6. Pour gasoline on the pile, throw a match, and run.

Had to do something as a kid before the internet.

Other kool things...

Launching bottle rockets at night towards boats in the water.

Setting off fireworks from a tall building, especially bottle rockets straight down (hold a lightly taped rocket in a coke bottle with an oven mit).

Lighting a trash bag on fire from a tall height, watching the plastic flames drip.

Disclaimer: don't do this yourselves.

[JVS]

7. Best trick ever: Get really hammered+throw bag of fireworks into bonfire

[madeline_con]

12. Then take cover. n/t

[Jara sang]

8. Do them off in a small confined area

that is always fun, like a drain pipe.

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Or an iron lung, or an oxygen tent

Hilarious!

[Jara sang]

10. I make my own fireworks,,,

wait for it...

















wait for it...



















In BED!!!

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11. Where do I begin? Well, check out my own site: Fireworksland.com

Besides my site, which is
http://Fireworksland.com

Check out:
pyrouniverse.com
freakpyromaniacs.com
pyropage.com

[madeline_con]

13. Your safety tips...

"Follow the instructions printed on each item. Read these instructions in advance."

:rofl:

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14. You wouldn't believe the stupid ways people have tried to use fireworks...