Foolishness

**BigTex** · 02-23-2006, 22:33

Never place a suadering iron near a plastic gasoline can.

Always make sure the morter tube for fireworks is on a stable platform.

Never fire 2 artilery (fireworks) rounds off at the same time from the same platform.

Always make sure there are no drunken peoples with lighters near the bags of fireworks.

God bless the 4th of July.

**drone** · 02-23-2006, 23:16

Originally Posted by BigTex

Always make sure the morter tube for fireworks is on a stable platform.

Wise words. And the tube should be placed over the table leg (on the corner), if possible. This will lessen the "table bounce" when it goes, decreasing the Murphy factor when...

Never fire 2 artilery (fireworks) rounds off at the same time from the same platform.

Depending on the platform and the launch tube, you can create slide-in secure slots for the tubes to keep them from falling over.

Always make sure there are no drunken peoples with lighters near the bags of fireworks.

God bless the 4th of July.

No better way to show your love for your country than by blowing up a small part of it. Our arsenal from the 2002 festivities:

Pyros Unite!

**BigTex** · 02-23-2006, 23:40

Bet you could have put a downpayment on a car with all those fireworks. Lol and the 2.20 kilo shells will break most tables. We finally ended up using a large sheet of plywood with holes cut in them to go on top of the tubes and some metall weights to stabalize it.

**Strike For The South** · 02-23-2006, 23:43

countinuing with the theme never EVER point a roman candle at the police...

oh and yay TEXAS

**drone** · 02-24-2006, 00:45

Originally Posted by BigTex

Bet you could have put a downpayment on a car with all those fireworks. Lol and the 2.20 kilo shells will break most tables. We finally ended up using a large sheet of plywood with holes cut in them to go on top of the tubes and some metall weights to stabalize it.

We have finally gone with angle-iron frames, with 5/8" plywood with extra 2x4 support in the center for the tables. Steel pipe pieces welded at the corners allow us to slide them onto the steel pipe (smaller diam) legs, which slide into pipe pieces we secured in concrete. When we can get welder access, we weld launch tubes (1-7/8" interior diam, groups of 4) to base plates, this is heavy and stable enough for what we launch.

We can only do Class C works, and even those are frowned upon in my state. We thought about getting a Class B licence, but that's a lot of hassle, regulations, and opens you up to bigtime potential liability.

This would definitely by my foolishness. Going on ten years of this mayhem, and I can still count to 10 with my fingers. Been pegged a few times by strays, but what can you do? The show must go on. Keep the safety goggles on and continue firing.

As to the cost, well, it's just better not to speak of it...

Thankfully, the good people at Phantom Fireworks give us the 2-for-1 special.

**Csargo** · 02-24-2006, 01:07

One time I was on my roof and I had a big knife and I threw an acorn at my little brother and I stabbed myself in the arm it wasn't pretty

**Louis VI the Fat** · 02-24-2006, 02:21

Never walk through a door that is in reality a fantastically well-cleaned glass window.

**Big King Sanctaphrax** · 02-24-2006, 23:25

Did you, BKS, my boss, my buddy, Lord of this your Kingdom of Peace & Love, shave naked in front of a mirror hanging directly over a hot radiator?

At least I don't have any scars to show for it. When I buy a house of my own, I'm going to ensure radiators are not situated at crotch height.

**Upxl** · 02-25-2006, 15:33

Never leave a room that contains a toilet, you’re wallet and younger sister.

Or never let that same sister play with youre house/car keys (After a few months I found them, half buried in the backyard)

**Viking** · 02-25-2006, 22:03

Originally Posted by drone

No better way to show your love for your country than by blowing up a small part of it. Our arsenal from the 2002 festivities:

Pyros Unite!

What?? You blow up your fireworks in the middle of the summer??

I was just about to write: Never....blow...fireworks....summer...doesn`t show....

**SwordsMaster** · 02-25-2006, 22:27

Originally Posted by Big King Sanctaphrax

At least I don't have any scars to show for it. When I buy a house of my own, I'm going to ensure radiators are not situated at crotch height.

I dont know if anybody would actualy like to see those scars, being "at crotch height" and all...

**Beirut** · 02-25-2006, 23:24

Originally Posted by SwordsMaster

I dont know if anybody would actualy like to see those scars, being "at crotch height" and all...

...and all the women of England were on fire.

**tibilicus** · 02-25-2006, 23:50

Stanly knife, art class, blood.
You get the idea.

**Cowhead418** · 02-27-2006, 04:02

Just because something isn't burning anymore, it doesn't mean it isn't hot anymore.

(Learned that the hard way when I was 6)

Never pretend to be stabbed by putting a real knife under your armpits - my cousin nearly cut off her finger when her younger sister tried to yank the knife away.