United-States (Melrose Pyrotechnics) Fireworks Finale 2009

[Georgiapyro]

wow, thats a lot of shells!, if i remember right melrose pyrotechnics does the show at the Vidalia onion festival....

[larsswaluw]

wat een mongol jongen xD

[nonamervuurwerk]

omg

[HowToPyro]

thats a big finale

[QuarterSticks]

OHH OHH MY GOD OHHH OHHH OHHH OH MY GOD!!!!! THATS A FINALE.....LOL did u jizz in ur pants??? u got like over excited!!

[1calman1]

holy fuck that was insanely intense!!!! and u wer like jizzin in ur pants haha

[Pyromight]

Hehe, It was insane. I wasn't jizzing myself but due to the amount of loudness and power that went on in the 12 seconds, I wasn't the only one saying oh my God.

[drummerking28]

that was the most intense fucking fi9nale i have ever seen 5 starz dude!!!

[Pyromight]

Thanks, all the credit goes to Melrose!

[Flomounier1]

thats awesome they must have spent at least 50 thousand dollars or more on that show if that was just the finale......shells are like 5 dollars each if they are 1.5" or more and 1.4g shells are even better than 1.3g so damn dude your lucky that your uncle is a pyrotechnician

[Pyromight]

Besides the finale. It was mostly shells that were fired. At the pace of a 4th Of July display. Slowly paced. But the finale was intense. About 1 grand each 12" shell that you see after 2:22. Really heavy shells. Yeah I'm glad I get to work with my uncle. I have 5 uncles who are pyrotechnicians. 3 works for Pirotecnica Manzo, 1 that works for Royale Pyrotecnie and another that works for Ciertifice Practoz.

[Flomounier1]

holy shit dude a 12" shell? thats amazing......too bad consumer only allows 3" shells to be the maximum and only 50mg of flash powder in firecrackers, i wish you were my friend in real life dude i am a fucking pyromaniac lol i light fireworks pretty much every day and I make my own explosives

[Pyromight]

Cool, keep it up dude. Yeah it's not that easy being a pyrotechnician, I have to sometimes wire the squibs to a controller. And most of the time I do large italian style finales. If you ever try to make a fireworks shell, don't ever make a shell larger than 4". Any higher, and a spark goes off, you won't have a house anymore and you'll have a haircut, and a bikini wax from the blast. Lol. Just try to keep it safe! Subscribing shows you really enjoy this stuff.

[Flomounier1]

yeah thank you, i might start off with a 1.5" or 2" mortar and make it mainly a salute shell I would use flash powder for the report and granulated black powder for the lift powder..........i just dont know what to use for stars or color, I could also coat rice crispies in black powder to make a crackle effect, do you know what i can use for stars?.........and yeah, ive heard being a pyrotechnician is one of the worlds hardest jobs, especially if you light it by hand with a flare. Pyro Pride!!!

[Pyromight]

1.5" is not bad. For stars and color, the easiest you can do is crush pieces of charcoal to make orange. Magnesium you cannot get that easily, nor the other colors. Rice cripies? Won't work. You can always make a beraq shell. I'll give you the details on a PM. Quick Match is the hardest to work with. It is hard, but covering the mortar with garbage bag and taping all around it reduces sparks. You can see a bit of what that looks like on the Fireworks Placing Preps. video. Pyro Pride for life!

[Flomounier1]

Yeah thank you for the instructions! Yes charcoal would work for an orange color depending on how fast it would ignite. I can just buy a magnesium flint firestarter from my local sporting good store and grind that off with a metal file. Or I was even thinking about taking the powder out of colored sparklers and mixing it with a drop of water and hardening it and putting that in a shell. Or, they even sell chemicals online that make colored fire like potasssium sulphide, copper sulphide etc. =]

[qcages]

can you get your hands on some flying fish fuse? or falling leaf fuse? and just so you know, you can makes hundreds of different kinds and variations of stars with just the chemicals used to make black powder..... tiger tail, chys-6, chys-8, willow...

[Pyromight]

Yes qcages,

I am aware, for the fireworks I work with, ematch and quickmatch are the only two that matter. I can link you to a site that sells that stuff. Look for it on the bottom of my channel info where all the links are. Stars and assembly takes time to figure out new patterns. Did you know black powder is used much more often than flash powder still nowadays?

[Pyromight]

12" shells are the maximum size here at the competition. Because when this comepeition first began in 1985, Japan shot a 16" shell in the sky that nearly burnt a wooden roller coaster in the park. Since then, the rules and regulations state that only shells under 12" are permitted.

[pyrocrew1]

isnt 1.4g consumer fireworks????

[Flomounier1]

oh yeah thats right 1.4g is consumer and 1.3g is professional

[pyrocrew1]

omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg ......lol that was sweet

[Pyromight]

Defenitley, the power was frightening. Each of those salutes were 2.5"! Look at the bottom where the larger shells were fired (which the pyrotecnics call at that area, Ramp 1), 2:22. That was really a finale to mark the 25th anniversery at La Ronde.

[sparkspyro]

What makes you think the salutes were 2.5"?? And not 3" or 4"

[Pyromight]

I am part of a forum, the person who runs that site, interviews all the pyrotechnicians, and was told that the finale contained approx. 500 salutes of all 2.5", and a barrage of that size with 3-4" salutes, wouldn't be possible. The 2.5" salutes are put into a roman candle. Those candles in the video came from Panzera S.A.S from Italy. They are called Thunder Candles. One video I have by Panzera in 2007 has hundreds of them going of. Loud stuff!

[Viesel1]

five hundred salutes?!?! wtf man thats alot!

[Pyromight]

Yes it is. American firework firms use lots of salutes. But Italians use ALOT more.