kweber1911 Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 Went to a 12 hour class last weekend to be a certified pyro for big fireworks and all that stuff. has anyone else ever done this? I thought it was a great time and will be taking more class. Kenny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NTMD8R_SS Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 That's cool. Every 4th of july i set up a bunch of fireworks and pretend i know what im doing.lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kweber1911 Posted April 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 i always like doing that too, except now I can fire off the 6 inch shells. Im not supposed to do any bigger than that because the rest need to be electric fire. Someday Ill be doing some 12 inch shells though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desrtrat Posted April 29, 2008 Report Share Posted April 29, 2008 never went for fire works, but I've blown up my share of things over the years. spent 2.5 yrs. combat engineers in the Army.. also for a contractor helping to clear old impact areas and bombing ranges. and yes, i still have ALL my fingers used mostly C-4 and TNT, det. cord and time fuses. never really liked using electric blasting caps, i carry a lot of static on me all the time. had a lot of fun most times, but like anything else in life if your not careful, THINGS will/can get away from you.. did one shot with about 50 500 lbs. and 1,000 lbs. GP bombs that never went off, because some body forgot to remove all the safety's. with the help of 600 lbs of C-4 it all went away in one shot..BOOOM about an 2 hrs later we got a call from U.S.G.S stating we set off a magnitude 3.8 reading on the rector scale the U.S.G.S did NOT have a sense of humor at all over it... always remember.. there is no problem, real or imagined, that can not be rectified with the proper amount of high explosives... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kweber1911 Posted April 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 thats awesome. ill never get to do anything like that...fireworks is as close as i can get to anything like that. the 10 inch and 12 inch shells are considered high explosive....so thats close enough for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitches040 Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 All I know from working the 4th of July details is .... Don't look into the TUBES !!!!! There, I'm glad I can help. .... LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fireman31 Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 This just in-----all firefighters are usually certified pyros! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireRescueSS Posted April 30, 2008 Report Share Posted April 30, 2008 This just in-----all firefighters are usually certified pyros! And we make house calls! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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