mguerra
02-15-2014, 05:34 PM
I put on a show Feb. 1 on some rural property my sister secured for the shoot, a friend of hers. I don't know him myself. At the end, I gave him a six pack of Excalibur and some ball shells as part of my thank you. I do know this fellow shoots fireworks himself from time to time. I told him to only use HDPE or fiberglass tubes, and that at the next legal time to buy fireworks, July 4, he should buy some shells that have such tubes. I didn't have any to give him, mine were all in racks. There were some Excalibur tubes in my racks but they all had the square flanges cut off so they were not usable free standing.
We were going to do the clean up the next morning, so we went down to the discharge site, inspected all the cardboard cakes, put out the smoldering ones, and inspected all the racks for any unspent shells. I gathered up my field modules, left all the rest and went to the hotel. The next morning we go down to clean up and it became evident our host wasn't waiting for the Fourth to play with his present. In fact, he decided to use one of my racks after we had all left. Which he destroyed. One of the Excalibur tubes that I had in a rack was blown out, and the corner of the rack was blown apart! The rack still supported the other tubes so I was satisfied with my rack build. No doubt he put one in upside down. You could tell by the downforce damage. It wasn't a bad lift charge. The guy never said a word to me or my sister. He wasn't there Sunday morning, we just went in, cleaned up, and left. He had my number, we spoke in advance about the shoot site, so he could have called me. I won't be going back there.
We were going to do the clean up the next morning, so we went down to the discharge site, inspected all the cardboard cakes, put out the smoldering ones, and inspected all the racks for any unspent shells. I gathered up my field modules, left all the rest and went to the hotel. The next morning we go down to clean up and it became evident our host wasn't waiting for the Fourth to play with his present. In fact, he decided to use one of my racks after we had all left. Which he destroyed. One of the Excalibur tubes that I had in a rack was blown out, and the corner of the rack was blown apart! The rack still supported the other tubes so I was satisfied with my rack build. No doubt he put one in upside down. You could tell by the downforce damage. It wasn't a bad lift charge. The guy never said a word to me or my sister. He wasn't there Sunday morning, we just went in, cleaned up, and left. He had my number, we spoke in advance about the shoot site, so he could have called me. I won't be going back there.