The Danger Of Banger Ropes

[Minesapint]

For many years, I have removed the individual bangers, lit and thrown them as birdscarers. (Yes, stupid, but I know I'm not alone). Last week while moving swans off wheat, one exploded instantaneously on being lit, removing the end of thumb and index finger. Bank Holiday weekend in hospital and an op was not what I had planned. It could have been much worse, but still a bloody
good mess, with some of the thumb removed, just hoping the trigger finger pulls through!! Anyway, if I am not the only half-wit that uses them in this way, I urge you to STOP, because one day it will go wrong. Rockets from now on.

 

[cat]

must admit i also do the same, never thought one would explode in your fingers like that. Get better soon.

 

[Minesapint]

must admit i also do the same, never thought one would explode in your fingers like that. Get better soon.

I think many of us use them like it. I have done for years, but this one was instant (wasn't a short fuse). I urge everybody not to do it. Thanks for the get well soon.

 

[Yale]

For many years, I have removed the individual bangers, lit and thrown them as birdscarers. (Yes, stupid, but I know I'm not alone). Last week while moving swans off wheat, one exploded instantaneously on being lit, removing the end of thumb and index finger. Bank Holiday weekend in hospital and an op was not what I had planned. It could have been much worse, but still a bloody
good mess, with some of the thumb removed, just hoping the trigger finger pulls through!! Anyway, if I am not the only half-wit that uses them in this way, I urge you to STOP, because one day it will go wrong. Rockets from now on.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Lad I used to work with years ago picked 1 up that hadn't gone off and put it between his teeth, just as he moved it away from his mouth it went off, very lucky not to do any damage just looked very shocked and had a bit of a sooty face :/

 

[David.]

Ouch, hope it mends soon.
Has it removed just flesh or bone as well?
A lesson to us all, including those that hold rockets by the stem and light them with a cigar.

 

[crazy_bull]

Ouch, hope it mends soon.
Has it removed just flesh or bone as well?
A lesson to us all, including those that hold rockets by the stem and light them with a cigar.

One of my customers did that until one didn't go woooosh and then bang. It just went bang. He had to have an operation to remove bits from his eyes, lucky not to be blind he reckons.

To think we used to have fights with bottle rockets and rook bangers, pretending they were grenades, often wondered why we would get an ass tanning off grandad for nicking them from the shed!



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[Minesapint]

Ouch, hope it mends soon.
Has it removed just flesh or bone as well?
A lesson to us all, including those that hold rockets by the stem and light them with a cigar.

Blown the bone out of thumb and index finger, about 20mm of thumb removed in op, but initially the surgeons were pretty pessimistic and talking of skin grafts etc. Have got away lightly really. Signed off for 5 weeks....trial run around the yard today and have perfected section control on Househam so barley will get sprayed tomorrow!! The only reason I posted is to try and save somebody some grief, it could easily have been my eyesight gone. To cap it all the swans haven't been back since Tuesday!!!

 

[topground]

What's the story when HSE come calling? Did your dynamic risk assessment conclude 'this will hurt like hell if it goes wrong'?

 

[Minesapint]

What's the story when HSE come calling? Did your dynamic risk assessment conclude 'this will hurt like hell if it goes wrong'?

What can they do? I dusted off the accident book and put it in (not easy to read written with wrong hand). Fine me for being a numpty? Worry about that if and when it happens. Funnily enough it has caused very little pain from the start ( apart from to the woman sat in A&E who started gagging when I was inspecting it).

 

[michael N123]

I nearly got kicked out of school in my youth for skiving lessons and running round letting them of outside with a mate.. Got a severe bollocking tho haha

 

[Nick.]

I've held rockets by the stick and let them go a few times.
Until I lit one in a 'launcher' and it just blew up straight away. Now I just get well out the way.

 

[principal skinner]

I used to work with a chap who lit a banger inside the pickup and through the lighter out of the window at the pigeons!

 

[yorkie]

There are 2 chaps on here and at a road junction one lit a banger off a rope with cigaret lighter,went to throw it out of window but window was up so it landed in the foot well of the corsa,did go wth a loud bang,another incident involved some body throwing one over our garden wall to scare the Mrs,I got the blame and got a bag of of flour on my head when going home,she had put it so when I opend outside door I got covered,them where the days

 

[farmerfred86]

the rockets can be just a dangerous as the rope bangers... short fuse again and a bigger explosion next to your face whilst lighting!!!

 

[Filthyfarmer]

I'll have to show my sons this thread before they pick up any more of my bad habits...............

Get well soon

 

[Dry Rot]

We farmers are crazy. I remember my uncle having sticks of gelignite rattling around in the front shelf of the Landrover. Somehow he managed to die of old age in his 80s. Blowing up rocks on the farm, one rock went through the LR windscreen with it parked 60 metres away. Sorry about your accident, OP, and glad to hear that you are managing.

 

[organicguy]

Modified a rope once to put them closer together to put on a wedding car. Banger shot off the rope and burnt a hole in a bridesmaids dress! Good job she only wanted to wear it once.

 

[Red Fred]

Dad gave us a box of ropes to put down the drain gratings when we left (boarding) school. As we were day kids, we didn't wait around to hear the outcome. We used to take them off the ropes and take them to school- on one occasion, we scraped a hole out in the brick wall and stuck a lit banger in it just as the school padre came round the corner and began talking to us. He converted most of us to the power of prayer that day as the banger went out on its own!

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Drop a lit one into an empty beer can & see what it does to the can - frightening.