RSKY
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Well..., the fireworks I bought Tuesday (see post about getting in trouble) were looked at and admired by all the thirty or so people at our house Tuesday afternoon, July 3rd. For a change we had our 'both sides' Fourth of July celebration a day early because one son in law had to work the fourth (fireman) and the other daughter had to go into work early the fifth.
Anyway, back to the story.
The fireworks were in this big package with two mortars. The first one I dropped in and lit didn't go off. After about five minutes I walked up and could see the fuse with no smoke. So we took it out, trimmed the fuse and dropped it back in. Lit it and ran. It got maybe thirty feet up and exploded! It was one of the big starburst types and the star was bigger than my entire back yard! Somehow nobody got hit but the shop and garden plants were not so lucky.
So we moved the mortar out to the fence at the end of the yard and tried another from a different part of the package. It made it a little higher but the explosion, instead of being a couple hundred feet high, still sent part of the starburst into the ground.
The third attempt was with the mortar WAY out in the field behind the house. That one might have made it ten feet out of the tube before it exploded.
SO...
I took the package back to the tent dealer I had bought it from. They said the package was their best seller and that they had people coming in and buying their second or third package. So they gave me another package and his wife was on the phone telling somebody about the problem as I was leaving. Gonna try the new one tonight with nobody else around and see what happens.
RSKY
Anyway, back to the story.
The fireworks were in this big package with two mortars. The first one I dropped in and lit didn't go off. After about five minutes I walked up and could see the fuse with no smoke. So we took it out, trimmed the fuse and dropped it back in. Lit it and ran. It got maybe thirty feet up and exploded! It was one of the big starburst types and the star was bigger than my entire back yard! Somehow nobody got hit but the shop and garden plants were not so lucky.
So we moved the mortar out to the fence at the end of the yard and tried another from a different part of the package. It made it a little higher but the explosion, instead of being a couple hundred feet high, still sent part of the starburst into the ground.
The third attempt was with the mortar WAY out in the field behind the house. That one might have made it ten feet out of the tube before it exploded.
SO...
I took the package back to the tent dealer I had bought it from. They said the package was their best seller and that they had people coming in and buying their second or third package. So they gave me another package and his wife was on the phone telling somebody about the problem as I was leaving. Gonna try the new one tonight with nobody else around and see what happens.
RSKY
