Pyro Paul
08-20-2016, 01:05 PM
Ok, so I worked a shoot at a local dirt track last night with some fellow pyro friends and we knew there was incoming weather. On the infield we set up candles (rockets red glare),a chain of salutes (bombs bursting in air), 4" RWB mines and fireballs with ground salutes (exclamation point). On the outside of the track behind a concrete wall opposite the grandstands we were supposed to set up for an 8 min display during a certain portion of the memorial race agenda. We knew there was an incoming front with lots of wind and rain, possibly hail so they held off on the display set up and had the infield set up ready for the National anthem. As the front approached the guy in charge elected to use shrink wrap on the Anthem setup. Everyone involved did not want to use the plastic rolls and shoot thru the plastic stating that they didn't want salutes going off all over the ground. I've heard Dave state that for weather you can cover with plastic and shoot thru it. Is there a rule of thumb here when you can or when you can't? These guys have been doing this for awhile (the senior guy was on his 4th type 54 renewal last year and does several shoots a year) and were pretty set against shooting thru anything but shrink wrap. I'm confused... :confused:
To finish the scenario, the infield was shot off to the Anthem and we never set up the 8 min display and had to pick up in the rain an hour later when they cancelled the race after the hot laps portion and it took 2 hours to get out of the speedway due to ppl getting stuck in the mud and had to be pulled out with big loaders. LOL what a mess... :p
To finish the scenario, the infield was shot off to the Anthem and we never set up the 8 min display and had to pick up in the rain an hour later when they cancelled the race after the hot laps portion and it took 2 hours to get out of the speedway due to ppl getting stuck in the mud and had to be pulled out with big loaders. LOL what a mess... :p