Fireworks

[gamerooster 1,179]

It's mad how stuff that is considered dangerous nowadays was perfectly acceptable in those days and we all came though it. I've still got almost as many eyes and fingers as i used to have.

Being Welsh you'll have to explain to us how many fingers that is?

[walshie 2,804]

 

It's mad how stuff that is considered dangerous nowadays was perfectly acceptable in those days and we all came though it. I've still got almost as many eyes and fingers as i used to have.

Being Welsh you'll have to explain to us how many fingers that is?

 

 

I'm English. So 11.

[Mister Gain 1,764]

Looking back I can't believe how dangerous we were with fireworks. Mates dad was a plumber and there was always access to an offcut of copper pipe. If we could muster enough for a couple of boxes of bangers we used to empty them into the length of pipe, after the ends had been flattened and bent over and a hole made in the pipe with a 6" nail for the banger fuse to go into and put some mud around the join. Used to lay it on the ground and light the fuse and retreat about 25 - 30 feet away. Always made a crater and could never find the remnants of the pipe, fcuk knows how none of us ever got injured... 25- 30 ft away somehow doesn't seem far enough somehow.

 

Another thing was walk on ahead of the group and if we came across a big pile of dog shite, put a banger in and try to time it as they walked past, caused much merriment provided you were not the one smothered in crap.

[walshie 2,804]

And taping up both ends of bangers so they had to explode in the middle instead of pushing the ends out. Made them twice as loud.

[Mister Gain 1,764]

They used to sell boxes of canons, a louder banger, but they were twice the price. Aerial Bomb Shells were another favourite as you could hold them and aim them.

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

It was so harmless in our eyes compared to today, it was just acceptable! We used to light the blue paper and run at least two hundred yards away just to catch a few seconds of sparks and smoke! Everyone clapping innocent times eh!!!

[Haiddheliwr 1,911]

Did anyone ever get the Catherine Wheel to go right?? It either stuck in one place on the post so you would have to manually get it going again or the bas**rd thing would fall to the floor and burn out!

[Mister Gain 1,764]

Did anyone ever get the Catherine Wheel to go right?? It either stuck in one place on the post so you would have to manually get it going again or the bas**rd thing would fall to the floor and burn out!

 

My father always put a couple of washers between the wheel and the post, so it must have been a common problem, but it did the trick.

 

Must say, at the loco depot I worked at we would use a gas powered Oliver Tom type boiler to make a brew of tea. It always had a pilot light alight and when you turned a lever the gas ring would ignite to quickly boil the water. Some of the young scallywags would hide a couple of bangers on the ring, none of them old drivers had much of a sense of humour. The chairs in the mess room were of tubular steel design, and when the old fellows were having a nap on nights the scamps would light a banger and drop it into the chair frame, again showing the old drivers' lack on a sense of humour, I have witnessed a fire extinguisher being thrown at someone as a result of such a prank, and it wasn't a little extinguisher

[scothunter 12,609]

Black cat bangers were the loudest. Best used between two gables or thrown into the stairway of block of flats.

 

Railway detonaters were the best. Used to drop a broken slab or huge rock onto them. Thats was after we realised smacking them dead centre with a mash hamner was not such a good idea lol

[dytkos 17,952]

They used to sell boxes of canons, a louder banger, but they were twice the price. Aerial Bomb Shells were another favourite as you could hold them and aim them.

And 3-2-1 zeros with the little plastic cap on the touch paper lol

Used to make banger guns out of old hoover tubing and also rocket guns when them packs of mini rockets came out.

Also the big roman candles with the wooden bit on the bottom that you could hold and fire at one another

 

Cheers, D.

[kanny 21,744]

Did anyone have any dealings with hellraisers rockets back in the early 90s when all the cheep Chinese imports started to come in? They was basically a pipe bomb on a stick inside them was a thick aluminium tube and they had the loudest bang I've ever heard from a firework that was great but we soon found out you could blow a 45 gallon metal oil drum to smithereens if you dropped one into em ....quite scary but great fun lol

Edited November 6, 2016 by kanny

[lukey 1,621]

Did anyone have any dealings with hellraisers rockets back in the early 90s when all the cheep Chinese imports started to come in? They was basically a pipe bomb on a stick inside them was a thick aluminium tube and they had the loudest bang I've ever heard from a firework that was great but we soon found out you could blow a 45 gallon metal oil drum to smithereens if you dropped one into em ....quite scary but great fun lol

Yeah there was loads of them about this way a few years ago, some bang of them! Had some fun with them trying to get as many up in the air as we could.

[kanny 21,744]

 

 

Did anyone have any dealings with hellraisers rockets back in the early 90s when all the cheep Chinese imports started to come in? They was basically a pipe bomb on a stick inside them was a thick aluminium tube and they had the loudest bang I've ever heard from a firework that was great but we soon found out you could blow a 45 gallon metal oil drum to smithereens if you dropped one into em ....quite scary but great fun lol

Yeah there was loads of them about this way a few years ago, some bang of them! Had some fun with them trying to get as many up in the air as we could.

From what I can remember we only had the ones with the aluminium tubes for 2 seasons after that they changed to a cardboard tube and they just wasn't the same.

[talt 878]

We used to drop crow scarers into old castrol gtx cans, they made a noise.

[walshie 2,804]

There was one I was trying to think of the name of. It was pinky/red plastic rectangle, taller at one end than the other with a row of holes along the thin edge that fired tiny rockets. i think you were supposed to nail it to something but we used to fire them hand-held. damned if i can think of the name.