Fireworks

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Jamesdavid3 said:
Beware of Rockets as one nearly killed me once...

I was watching my friends house afew doors down from me having fireworks in there garden, they were using the normal rockets. After some went off about 5 seconds later the wooden stick part which holds the rocket came down about 100mph and only missed me by inches, it shot down so fast like a arrow into the grass it was so scarey.

Without a dout if that hit me it would have killed me, i guess people think the wood stick parts to the rockets are ment to explode...no they come down like arrows so watch out.
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hmm, had my neighbour 3 doors down out whining at us earlyer thisevening as the stick from one of my rockets came down and hit her kitchen windowcil, the rockets wer £20 each so as you imagen they come on a chunky stick, overall rocket hight was 5'2" so the stick was probly 4'6" and 10mm square :o
 
Some vids and shots from my garden party :D

Pre-finale build up

Finale

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greywolf said:
Good stuff :cool:, was the finale 2 -3 screaming spiders?

All hand lit or did you go for a firing system? I am eyeing one up from wirelessfireworks for next year.
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Pre-finale was x2 little black cat typhoons twisters. 25m fireworks for £3 each, then main ones were the x2 open fires.

x2 Spiders and a Magneto let off about 18seconds in to get some massive breaks going.

All hand lit with my Excel torch (Rothenberger copy). Fully PPE'd up with hard hat, goggles, thick jacket, gloves, boots etc and all pyro mounted on boards and staked. ALso had a rocket racket and x5 other tubes in the grass.

If you have the PPE and the balls it really is easy to hand light it all, all you need is a sheet with your firing order and timings to count to before lighting the next (watch vids online and set next one off say 10secs before end of current one). Easy to do a well laid out and smooth display really stamping your foot down on any competition in the surrounding area letting off their supermarket pyro one at a time :D
 
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Would love the have the room you appear to have in your photos. I had to settle for a small garden so had to stick to mainly Cat 2 absolute fireworks. Was a bit annoyed that my Remote Kontrol system didn't work :mad:. Had to hand light the whole lot which was fine but meant I didn't get to watch as much as I'd like. I ended up with 12 minutes of continuous fireworks which was quite good :).
 
molinari said:
Would love the have the room you appear to have in your photos. I had to settle for a small garden so had to stick to mainly Cat 2 absolute fireworks. Was a bit annoyed that my Remote Kontrol system didn't work :mad:. Had to hand light the whole lot which was fine but meant I didn't get to watch as much as I'd like. I ended up with 12 minutes of continuous fireworks which was quite good :).
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I believe the Launch Kontrol system had some kind of issue with the battery.

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"Launch Kontrol Advisory - Transmitter Button Cell.

If you have purchased a Launch Kontrol/Kontrol Pro recently please check the transmitter works correctly. Mine had a duff button cell (battery). One of a bad batch according to the retailer so there are more out there…
In my Pro it made the remote behave inconsistently whilst linking to the receivers. The red light on the remote should come back on when programming using one or more of the four (A to D) channel buttons. If the red light goes out and stays out after you press a channel button you have a bad button cell…

If in doubt replace it anyway before the big night..."
 
LOL i had some kids letting them off at 11am yesterday:confused:...i mean what is the point of that exactly??...im genuinely confused by that.
 
greywolf said:
I believe the Launch Kontrol system had some kind of issue with the battery.

Taken from ukfr:

"Launch Kontrol Advisory - Transmitter Button Cell.

If you have purchased a Launch Kontrol/Kontrol Pro recently please check the transmitter works correctly. Mine had a duff button cell (battery). One of a bad batch according to the retailer so there are more out there…
In my Pro it made the remote behave inconsistently whilst linking to the receivers. The red light on the remote should come back on when programming using one or more of the four (A to D) channel buttons. If the red light goes out and stays out after you press a channel button you have a bad button cell…

If in doubt replace it anyway before the big night..."
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ARGH!!! Exactly my problem :mad: :(. Well I should have checked earlier in the day but at least it should work for New Year :).
 
It was a CSBS (commercial square bonfire society) member, hit by one of the official display fireworks. They were having trouble with the display triggering, and you could see their folk running about, but any other info would be pure conjecture.
 
i was at that one :o shame for the young fella :( i heard it was a rocket stick that came back down and struck him on the chest, but from what you say he might have had one lauch into him :/
i watched it from infront of the hotdog stands for obvious reasons, they wer quite tasty as it goes
 
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Yeah, a mate in the society said that it fired right at him and actually exploded, but again I don't really think anyone knows for sure.

Needless to say, a falling stick will hurt nobody :P

What does hurt people however, is the plaster stops in rookies. I've caught some of those in the past that have ripped my jeans and cut my leg and my brother got one in the face this year.
 
Xan_Molbjerg said:
What does hurt people however, is the plaster stops in rookies. I've caught some of those in the past that have ripped my jeans and cut my leg and my brother got one in the face this year.
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i got hit just above the knee, left a mark like id been hit with a paintball, me m8 got one in the eye whilst sat in our m8s front room with the door open :o
 
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