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Discussion (4)

  • Brickhouse Hank@HankRhody

    Used to have some proper fireworks down at the sand pit. Here's what you do with bottle rockets:

    Take an old bit of loose screen or chicken wire. Hammer it onto a frame of scrap wood. Hang about ten thousand individual rockets off of the screen. Light a bonfire and set the mass on it at once. If you're doing it right you get roughly a hemisphere of rockets flying in all directions, loud enough to drown out the maniacal laughter.

    I suppose I should emphasize this was done in a sand pit and not in a suburb. However if you have access to a 'the farm' then I'd go ahead and do it out there, provided you aren't mid drought.

    Oh, I watched cousin take a shot right to the sternum in a Roman Candle duel. Afterwards he didn't realize he had been hit at all. No mass to the things.

  • kedavis@kedavis
    ReplyingtoBrickhouse Hank

    Brickhouse Hank (View Comment):

    Used to have some proper fireworks down at the sand pit. Here’s what you do with bottle rockets:

    Take an old bit of loose screen or chicken wire. Hammer it onto a frame of scrap wood. Hang about ten thousand individual rockets off of the screen. Light a bonfire and set the mass on it at once. If you’re doing it right you get roughly a hemisphere of rockets flying in all directions, loud enough to drown out the maniacal laughter.

    I suppose I should emphasize this was done in a sand pit and not in a suburb. However if you have access to a ‘the farm’ then I’d go ahead and do it out there, provided you aren’t mid drought.

    Oh, I watched cousin take a shot right to the sternum in a Roman Candle duel. Afterwards he didn’t realize he had been hit at all. No mass to the things.

    But still, no mas.