Fireworks

[sleepy]

Does anyone have problems with locals and fireworks?

In answer to your question I have done hundreds of displays and there is no doubt in my mind that when it come to animals and fireworks, it is the owners that are the issue.

I have seen massive displays fired 50 metres from cattle, sheep and horses and in all cases they are slightly spooked when the first bang happens, and then they group together and stand back and watch the show.

 

[Jon Feetham]

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Is the Laptop for controlling the display, or keeping an eye on us lot?

 

[RobFZS]

is annoying having restless cattle, but then you have to give and take when you keep the townies awake during harvest.

 

[sleepy]

Is the Laptop for controlling the display, or keeping an eye on us lot?

The laptop receives time code from the PA guys and sends signal to the firing system when it is time to go

The laptop lets us see what is going on with much more clarity and quickly isolate sections of the display if things get ugly and we have to send a man in, or a shell flower pots and blows the rest of it's rack up etc.

And if all else fails we light up our gas torches and go in, bit exciting hand lighting an electric show as you have already cut the fuses off

 

[Jon Feetham]

The laptop receives time code from the PA guys and sends signal to the firing system when it is time to go

The laptop lets us see what is going on with much more clarity and quickly isolate sections of the display if things get ugly and we have to send a man in, or a shell flower pots and blows the rest of it's rack up etc.

And if all else fails we light up our gas torches and go in, bit exciting hand lighting an electric show as you have already cut the fuses off

Be safe, enjoy.

 

[grumpy]

In answer to your question I have done hundreds of displays and there is no doubt in my mind that when it come to animals and fireworks, it is the owners that are the issue.

I have seen massive displays fired 50 metres from cattle, sheep and horses and in all cases they are slightly spooked when the first bang happens, and then they group together and stand back and watch the show.

thats rubbish,there is folks letting off fireworks next door and one of my dogs has pished on the carpet the other is shaking with fear.it is the height of ignorance and should be banned.ive nowt against organized events but twonks in back gardens are just ignorant earses.

 

[llamedos]

In answer to your question I have done hundreds of displays and there is no doubt in my mind that when it come to animals and fireworks, it is the owners that are the issue.

I have seen massive displays fired 50 metres from cattle, sheep and horses and in all cases they are slightly spooked when the first bang happens, and then they group together and stand back and watch the show.

At the old place, I turned up one morning to find both ponies stables trashed inside, the mares door bent to hell, but just abut hanging on with the drop bolt and the old gelding cut all over his face, they were solid old stone buildings, both in a complete state.
Couldn't work out what the hell had gone on, until I turned them out into the field, and noticed the gable end of the mares side of the stable. The a$$hole in the house at the back, had had a firework display, the remnants of which were left in the garden, he had used the gable end to attach some of the fireworks too.
It really is a good job he had gone to work, I would have throttled him, and shoved his fireworks so far up his jacksy he would have not stopped until he had left the atmosphere. The imbecile had even seen me putting the horses in. He received a police caution for his actions.

 

[llamedos]

thats rubbish,there is folks letting off fireworks next door and one of my dogs has pished on the carpet the other is shaking with fear.it is the height of ignorance and should be banned.ive nowt against organized events but twonks in back gardens are just ignorant earses.

Ditto my terrier at the moment, the others are not botherd by them, he is terrified.

 

[grumpy]

Ditto my terrier at the moment, the others are not botherd by them, he is terrified.

daughter has just brought her dog to my house as it is going nuts and may settle a bit with our ones,even im pished off im trying to watch the telly but cant hear a thing for stupid idiots next door.ban the fecking things and leave it to jake to do public ones far from folks houses.

 

[B&B Pig Man]

daughter has just brought her dog to my house as it is going nuts and may settle a bit with our ones,even im pished off im trying to watch the telly but cant hear a thing for stupid idiots next door.ban the fecking things and leave it to jake to do public ones far from folks houses.

My dogs don't worry about them at all - so I'm luck there.

Do agree though - should be professional events only - back yard fireworks should definitely be banned!

 

[bobk]

At the old place, I turned up one morning to find both ponies stables trashed inside, the mares door bent to hell, but just abut hanging on with the drop bolt and the old gelding cut all over his face, they were solid old stone buildings, both in a complete state.
Couldn't work out what the hell had gone on, until I turned them out into the field, and noticed the gable end of the mares side of the stable. The a$$hole in the house at the back, had had a firework display, the remnants of which were left in the garden, he had used the gable end to attach some of the fireworks too.
It really is a good job he had gone to work, I would have throttled him, and shoved his fireworks so far up his jacksy he would have not stopped until he had left the atmosphere. The imbecile had even seen me putting the horses in. He received a police caution for his actions.

Know where you're coming from @llamedos , tbf I can handle bonfire night because the cattle will go down the fields , our major problem is new years eve, all quiet then it's armageddon , told the twit next door his new porsche is going for a ride in a telehandler next time he wants to entertain his scabby family .
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[llamedos]

Sadly once again it is a minority who spoil it for others, I agree with displays being organised ones only. Someone on twitter this morning had his cattle stampede and go thrugh hedges and fences, to try to get away

 

[Woolgatherer]

I've got 3 nervous wrecks in with me at the moment, neighbours have lots of noisy fireworks going off. I quite like to see displays but I wish they'd stick to organised ones. And why do they have to be so noisy with whistles and bangers, if they were quieter there'd be less panic in the animal world!

 

[cherylA]

Cant stand Fireworks...Especially the plonkers who think they are fun.

New Years Eve a nightmare for us ,when incoherent townies that have moved to the countryside think its good fun to let off bangers not far away from a cattle shed....causing mayhem ....Are they just thick or plain stupid

Agree with Grumpy...Ban them .....

 

[DrWazzock]

Normally the size and noise generated by the display is inversely proportional to the IQ and income of those putting it on.

A peculiarly British event that has always left me with mixed feelings. We celebrate the failure of a revolutionary plot. Probably the biggest anti climax in history. I remember at primary school thinking what an incompetent mess they made of the job. The French have things like Bastille day, which celebrates something that was a success, of sorts.

We have laws against preaching of religious hatred and about burning waste in the open yet we burn an effigy of a prominent Roman Catholic on poorly constructed heaps of sodden waste materials up and down the country, and strangely this is seen as a good thing. It took a bit of explaining to some devoutly Catholic Spanish visitors.

Anyway, don't let a few moral issues get in the way of a big money spinner.

I do quite like the warmth and cheer a bonfire brings to autumn and the spectacle of the occasional firework, though why they are permitted to be sold to members of the public I will never understand.

But I don't like the ignorant gloating triumphalism of the Guy Fawkes story. Plenty of unsavoury things happened in the name of religion in history on all sides and to my mind they are best left alone now.

 

[bobk]

It's a good job we don't have fireworks on July 14th as the french , half the arable land in Britain would be torched

 

[DrWazzock]

It's a good job we don't have fireworks on July 14th as the french , half the arable land in Britain would be torched

Good point. If we have revolution it needs to be I the winter!

 

[llamedos]

I've got 3 nervous wrecks in with me at the moment, neighbours have lots of noisy fireworks going off. I quite like to see displays but I wish they'd stick to organised ones. And why do they have to be so noisy with whistles and bangers, if they were quieter there'd be less panic in the animal world!

Agree with that I do love to see the beautiful displays done well, but the need for the screeches and bombs it OTT that is all that is going off around here at the moment and there is always the fool across the road, who after the lull around 9pm decides he will have the last big noise

 

[grumpy]

ma wee pal fer the nicht

 

[grumpy]

Normally the size and noise generated by the display is inversely proportional to the IQ and income of those putting it on.

A peculiarly British event that has always left me with mixed feelings. We celebrate the failure of a revolutionary plot. Probably the biggest anti climax in history. I remember at primary school thinking what an incompetent mess they made of the job. The French have things like Bastille day, which celebrates something that was a success, of sorts.

We have laws against preaching of religious hatred and about burning waste in the open yet we burn an effigy of a prominent Roman Catholic on poorly constructed heaps of sodden waste materials up and down the country, and strangely this is seen as a good thing. It took a bit of explaining to some devoutly Catholic Spanish visitors.

Anyway, don't let a few moral issues get in the way of a big money spinner.

I do quite like the warmth and cheer a bonfire brings to autumn and the spectacle of the occasional firework, though why they are permitted to be sold to members of the public I will never understand.

But I don't like the ignorant gloating triumphalism of the Guy Fawkes story. Plenty of unsavoury things happened in the name of religion in history on all sides and to my mind they are best left alone now.

you dont get out a lot?