Fireworks

[suffolksmallholder]

I spent the New Year in Amsterdam a while back. I was amazed at the size of the tubes that the mortars were fired from a metre tall and a four inch hole! I thought the bangers were just incredible. The biggest bundles were bigger round that you could hug and were only a couple of feet from the ground when hauled up by the gable crane that all the older houses have in that quarter. So about eighteen feet of little red bangers.........
SS

 

[Hilly]

ma wee pal fer the nicht

lAZER EYES

 

[bobk]

lAZER EYES

 

[DRC]

ma wee pal fer the nicht

Mines dead to the world after a day out shooting

 

[grumpy]

lAZER EYES

nah irony,c,mere ma wee pal as yer scared shyteless then i do flash camera and kick her off again.

 

[borderterribles]

I'm not much for banning things, by and large, but I'd like to see fireworks banned, whether in organised displays or not!

 

[grumpy]

Mines dead to the world after a day out shooting View attachment 21370

so used to bangs and flash in the pans when your shooting then?

 

[sleepy]

I spent the New Year in Amsterdam a while back. I was amazed at the size of the tubes that the mortars were fired from a metre tall and a four inch hole! I thought the bangers were just incredible. The biggest bundles were bigger round that you could hug and were only a couple of feet from the ground when hauled up by the gable crane that all the older houses have in that quarter. So about eighteen feet of little red bangers.........
SS

A 4 inch mortar (100mm) is very common in a professional display, for a small wedding display you might have a mix of 65mm, 75mm and 100mm shells and a selection of cakes.

The biggest commonly fired in this country is 7 inch (175mm) because it is just under the limit to be carried in a van without being classed as 1.1G explosive. And 7 inch can be fairly safely staked.

However, at big displays you can have up to 16 inch shells, fired out of a tube that would be about 15 foot tall and dug in with a jcb.

The problem is the safety distance required for many of the bigger shells is so large there are not many venues you can use them unless you are firing off a barge.

Here are some pics from the other day at a theme park,

The main racks, wooden this time as the metal ones are heavy to bring up the mountain

Some cakes bagged up to protect them from the rain

It was fired out of a pond, they empty the water out first thankfully

Smiley face testing

 

[Hilly]

nah irony,c,mere ma wee pal as yer scared shyteless then i do flash camera and kick her off again.

Poor pooch, gi her a pat fre me,

 

[jimmer]

waste of money

 

[Dave W]

waste of money

It cost nearly £2k to put our display on and usually raises about £5k for charity

 

[Daniel]

[quote="DrWazzock, post: 212151, member: 2119]It took a bit of explaining to some devoutly Catholic Spanish visitors.[/quote]

A group of Catholics tried to murder the Protestant British King, they failed, we celebrate the failure of this attack on our constitution. Not a difficult concept to grasp surely?

I have no problem with Americans celebrating their independence from us, indeed they do it quite brazenly a few miles from us at their airbase, on British soil, every July 4th, good luck to them, decent displays too.

 

[Grassman]

Nothing wrong with the big and small organised displays with sensible people running them.
It's the idiots who have them in their back garden without any consideration for their neighbours that's the problem.

Some farmers are as bad however by setting bird scarers inconsiderately.

 

[borderterribles]

Nothing wrong with the big and small organised displays with sensible people running them.
It's the idiots who have them in their back garden without any consideration for their neighbours that's the problem.

Some farmers are as bad however by setting bird scarers inconsiderately.

Whilst I wouldn't defend the inconsiderate use of gas gun birdscarers, I can't see any justification in people imposing the bangs and flashes of fireworks(whether organised or not),
on other people and their livestock, pets, wildlife etc

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I spent £80 and it was gone in 10 mins but worth it

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Whilst I wouldn't defend the inconsiderate use of gas gun birdscarers, I can't see any justification in people imposing the bangs and flashes of fireworks(whether organised or not),
on other people and their livestock, pets, wildlife etc

Boo!

 

[Hilly]

Just been given a great big firework of a friend, going to let it off later, its a proper big thing from a pro display ! exited

 

[grumpy]

Just been given a great big firework of a friend, going to let it off later, its a proper big thing from a pro display ! exited

see if you can sit on it then it can be the scots space race against india

 

[Hilly]

see if you can sit on it then it can be the scots space race against india

I would win ,

 

[Robigus]