Yes that's it. We actually flew into an air base called Evenes. I would definitely like to visit Norway again. Thanks for the geography excursion. I had looked before and couldn't remember everything. Then I looked at a map and saw Bodo and knew we were way north of there.
@Booger6995 Hehe, ive only been in Bodø 2 times in my life, once on holiday in -86, and i was there a few days when i was in the navy -91, i served my 13 months on a frigate(KNM Stavanger) as engineer, loved that period, if you google the knm Stavanger, you will get surprised to see how she ended her days in the beginning of 2001, you will also find a couple of youtube clips of it. She was a 35 year old Lady! man it made me sad though.
Yes. He could have been a touch safer. I personally hand fire 2-3 shows around the 4th each year. Easy to critisize if you don't do it. Easy to converse cordially. My routine on a shoot goes with all salutes segregated (3" only). Smallest shell size so I get to shoot the most. See size does have advantages! Suited up safely. I do not retreat during normal hand firing. If a 3" goes in the gun it's a mine. If it's a salute then it's different. Just go down and pop a salute every once in a while.
If Mike had seen as many shell malfunctions as me i think he`d think twice about doing that. One guy plastered in blood, had his thumb just hanging on by a bit of skin when a plastic shell exploded just as it cleared the tube.
Remote firing costs more (manhours, squibs, ...). Smaller displays often don't want to pay that extra so they do handfiring. As soon as you go to really big displays they go electronic :)
@PyroCreationZ Hehe, i understand, but any small device or display would be considered a safer one if remote ignited anyways, i bet the day something went wrong on ignition, they would regret bigtime not spending the penny on a e match, well well;)
@PyroCreationZ And it even made me think further, its almost like a skydiver saying he wont use or even have the spare parachute because it is too expensive, think about it, safety is a very important issue when it comes to pyrotechnics, it is well known that its one of THE most dangerous hobbies world wide, but then again, in the hobby use department, people dont care as much about it as they should.
Completely agree! The shows I've done were always pre-fused so I only had to lit one thing and watch the show (with the exception of last year were I didn't have enough time to fuse everything in time). Now I have a 128cue homemade system wich I'll use for the first time this year. This is safer, gives me the oppertunity to watch the show and to "time" everything better. And I agree to the part that shells should be electronically lit for safety reasons. Cakes not necessarily.
But again, handfiring is still done all around the world mostly because there's a tight budget yet they want squize out as much as possible meaning "less" safety, more fireworks.
I doubt a skydiver would leave out his spare parachute lol but I know what you mean :)
@PyroCreationZ Im with you, my previously shells were handfired, but i always used a long slow fuse hanging outside the tube, so it took around 20-30 seconds from fuse ignition to the qm ignited. I now have finally a remote system, it turned out to be well invested money,with increased safety, also i get to ignite it on the push of a button from a safe distance and beeing able to enjoy the show myself;)
@MlkePortnoy Ho ho, i must admit im slow on the humor side, took me two days to get it, you meen laugh of the fact that mike loves fireworks more then his life?Maby mike got a great insurance deal, maby his kids and wife are settled for life when the accident occures? Myself, im a norwegian, we are also know for our stupidity, we shoot rockets horizontally, and pop eachothers eyes out that way, so rockets got prohibited by law, we also drink insanly when out of bordrers......to be continued!
@skyisthelimitinc We drink insanly because the price is 1/5th of our own outside the norwegian border, we need 5 times the amount of beer so we still meet our beer budget on holidays. Hehe, now thats a fun fact
@skyisthelimitinc Beautiful place. Visited back in 83 with Air Force. They had this stuff called literally self made. Just sugar, water and yeast. Distilled. Rocket fuel. Got drunk and watched the Northern Lights. Really cool times back then.
@Booger6995 It is, the nature here is breathtaking, northern lights are now visible from north to south many times, always spectacular to watch, i recon you were in the northern places getting the homemade brew, its well known around the whole country, and as you probably guessed, it still is very available, and thats the taxes fault, we brew like never before,and we buy much too much from sweden,spain,denmark and so on, its called smuggling, reason, taxes, sigarettes also.
@skyisthelimitinc Sweden have a great product called General, its tobacco you stuff under the lip, its always been around in norway from sweden, 4years ago, taxes exploded on the product, reason, people started liking it instead of the insanely expensive sigarettes(not all of us will buy smuggler sigarettes)Firework cakes is all we can use at 1800-0200 at NYE, rockets banned by law, reason, 5 -6 people got blinded in 3-4 years due to some morons shooting along the roadways and so on,
@skyisthelimitinc I loved my time in Norway. It was way too short of a trip. The cold hard of natures fury combined with lifes ability to adapt. I was near a fiord which we were told was a summer place. The name is hard but like Offershoy. Had a lodge and separate huts. Some were actually on the dock over the water. Mountains were beautiful. People were the same. Rugged and beautiful. Never forget my time there.
@Booger6995 Is it a small island named Osterøy you maby visited, if your airforce landed on Bergen airport thats the only place i can think of? Thats the one that comes to mind with your word, i live close to that place, we have many fiords and high mountains surrounding us,it would take a lifetime to enjoy all our country´s unique little places.
@skyisthelimitinc That is it I believe. There was a town fairly close that is Lundigen (sp?). Sorry but it was so long ago. There was a band that played in the lodge from Hartaad (SP?) again that was named The Atlantic Rollers. Bass player and drummer were brothers last name was Hansen. Kato and Steinar. Great guys. Lots of good times.
@Booger6995 Ok, Lundenes, it was Harstad you visited then, its all the way up north in this incredible slim long country, a drive to lundenes for me, is as long as a drive to italy!, so we are pretty much stuck in our own communes if we dont wanna fly with planes around;)
thts crazy!! i wouldnt lite quick match with all those salute mortars like tht!
edvthepyrowizard 1 day ago
I don't know if this guy is just stupid or if he's dumb.
fidstang 1 month ago
Hi, amazing sound which cam did you use ?
regrads
PSPFREAK221155 1 month ago
Does he still have hands?
96motorhead 1 month ago
Does Mike have a death wish?
flirtybirdy69 3 months ago
Yes that's it. We actually flew into an air base called Evenes. I would definitely like to visit Norway again. Thanks for the geography excursion. I had looked before and couldn't remember everything. Then I looked at a map and saw Bodo and knew we were way north of there.
Booger6995 1 year ago
@Booger6995 Hehe, ive only been in Bodø 2 times in my life, once on holiday in -86, and i was there a few days when i was in the navy -91, i served my 13 months on a frigate(KNM Stavanger) as engineer, loved that period, if you google the knm Stavanger, you will get surprised to see how she ended her days in the beginning of 2001, you will also find a couple of youtube clips of it. She was a 35 year old Lady! man it made me sad though.
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
lol, youre awesome, i hope you survive youre hobby.
xD
propyropower 1 year ago
ill leave that job to him. i dont like hand firing salutes without a few seconds of visco
TheBombBros 1 year ago
By the way Thanks Dave for the funny video. Sorry I was in soap box mode on the last comment. Sometimes it just gets me going.
Booger6995 1 year ago
Yes. He could have been a touch safer. I personally hand fire 2-3 shows around the 4th each year. Easy to critisize if you don't do it. Easy to converse cordially. My routine on a shoot goes with all salutes segregated (3" only). Smallest shell size so I get to shoot the most. See size does have advantages! Suited up safely. I do not retreat during normal hand firing. If a 3" goes in the gun it's a mine. If it's a salute then it's different. Just go down and pop a salute every once in a while.
Booger6995 1 year ago
y is it bad to light quickmatch directly
TheCapton96 1 year ago
LOL
Tampaslice 1 year ago
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All good and dandy until one of those shells malfunction
Lights out....
stevespyrochannel 1 year ago
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stevespyrochannel 1 year ago
like most things that are cool this is pretty dumb
panzuman 1 year ago
If Mike had seen as many shell malfunctions as me i think he`d think twice about doing that. One guy plastered in blood, had his thumb just hanging on by a bit of skin when a plastic shell exploded just as it cleared the tube.
pyroarch57 1 year ago 11
how about quick fusing it all together then a delay on the final one
flyingfireguy 1 year ago
I wonder why they dont remote ignite it? It sure would increase the level of safety a couple of times;)
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@skyisthelimitinc
Remote firing costs more (manhours, squibs, ...). Smaller displays often don't want to pay that extra so they do handfiring. As soon as you go to really big displays they go electronic :)
Hope that cleared something mate ;)
PyroCreationZ 1 year ago
@PyroCreationZ Hehe, i understand, but any small device or display would be considered a safer one if remote ignited anyways, i bet the day something went wrong on ignition, they would regret bigtime not spending the penny on a e match, well well;)
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@PyroCreationZ And it even made me think further, its almost like a skydiver saying he wont use or even have the spare parachute because it is too expensive, think about it, safety is a very important issue when it comes to pyrotechnics, it is well known that its one of THE most dangerous hobbies world wide, but then again, in the hobby use department, people dont care as much about it as they should.
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@skyisthelimitinc
Completely agree! The shows I've done were always pre-fused so I only had to lit one thing and watch the show (with the exception of last year were I didn't have enough time to fuse everything in time). Now I have a 128cue homemade system wich I'll use for the first time this year. This is safer, gives me the oppertunity to watch the show and to "time" everything better. And I agree to the part that shells should be electronically lit for safety reasons. Cakes not necessarily.
PyroCreationZ 1 year ago
@PyroCreationZ
But again, handfiring is still done all around the world mostly because there's a tight budget yet they want squize out as much as possible meaning "less" safety, more fireworks.
I doubt a skydiver would leave out his spare parachute lol but I know what you mean :)
PyroCreationZ 1 year ago
@PyroCreationZ Im with you, my previously shells were handfired, but i always used a long slow fuse hanging outside the tube, so it took around 20-30 seconds from fuse ignition to the qm ignited. I now have finally a remote system, it turned out to be well invested money,with increased safety, also i get to ignite it on the push of a button from a safe distance and beeing able to enjoy the show myself;)
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
cool
migueltvclip 1 year ago
Thats how angels and deaf people are made.Later.
Roll12J 1 year ago
Haha super Mike! *cue cheesy old school hero music*
PyroPortrayal 1 year ago
the purpose of quickmatch is to light fireworks quickly and safely.
kenz1031 1 year ago
@kenz1031 the purpose of this video is to make people laugh. Fuck off smart ass
MlkePortnoy 1 year ago 12
@MlkePortnoy Ho ho, i must admit im slow on the humor side, took me two days to get it, you meen laugh of the fact that mike loves fireworks more then his life?Maby mike got a great insurance deal, maby his kids and wife are settled for life when the accident occures? Myself, im a norwegian, we are also know for our stupidity, we shoot rockets horizontally, and pop eachothers eyes out that way, so rockets got prohibited by law, we also drink insanly when out of bordrers......to be continued!
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@skyisthelimitinc We drink insanly because the price is 1/5th of our own outside the norwegian border, we need 5 times the amount of beer so we still meet our beer budget on holidays. Hehe, now thats a fun fact
peace out from Norway.
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@skyisthelimitinc Beautiful place. Visited back in 83 with Air Force. They had this stuff called literally self made. Just sugar, water and yeast. Distilled. Rocket fuel. Got drunk and watched the Northern Lights. Really cool times back then.
Booger6995 1 year ago
@Booger6995 It is, the nature here is breathtaking, northern lights are now visible from north to south many times, always spectacular to watch, i recon you were in the northern places getting the homemade brew, its well known around the whole country, and as you probably guessed, it still is very available, and thats the taxes fault, we brew like never before,and we buy much too much from sweden,spain,denmark and so on, its called smuggling, reason, taxes, sigarettes also.
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@skyisthelimitinc Sweden have a great product called General, its tobacco you stuff under the lip, its always been around in norway from sweden, 4years ago, taxes exploded on the product, reason, people started liking it instead of the insanely expensive sigarettes(not all of us will buy smuggler sigarettes)Firework cakes is all we can use at 1800-0200 at NYE, rockets banned by law, reason, 5 -6 people got blinded in 3-4 years due to some morons shooting along the roadways and so on,
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@skyisthelimitinc I could go on forever but then id probably been misunderstood,chased,mocked and been taken for a free thinker........
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@skyisthelimitinc I loved my time in Norway. It was way too short of a trip. The cold hard of natures fury combined with lifes ability to adapt. I was near a fiord which we were told was a summer place. The name is hard but like Offershoy. Had a lodge and separate huts. Some were actually on the dock over the water. Mountains were beautiful. People were the same. Rugged and beautiful. Never forget my time there.
Booger6995 1 year ago
@Booger6995 Is it a small island named Osterøy you maby visited, if your airforce landed on Bergen airport thats the only place i can think of? Thats the one that comes to mind with your word, i live close to that place, we have many fiords and high mountains surrounding us,it would take a lifetime to enjoy all our country´s unique little places.
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@skyisthelimitinc That is it I believe. There was a town fairly close that is Lundigen (sp?). Sorry but it was so long ago. There was a band that played in the lodge from Hartaad (SP?) again that was named The Atlantic Rollers. Bass player and drummer were brothers last name was Hansen. Kato and Steinar. Great guys. Lots of good times.
Booger6995 1 year ago
@Booger6995 It was Lundenes. And the lodge was I still believe Offershoy. Still checking maps of the area trying to jog my memory.
Booger6995 1 year ago
@Booger6995 Ok, Lundenes, it was Harstad you visited then, its all the way up north in this incredible slim long country, a drive to lundenes for me, is as long as a drive to italy!, so we are pretty much stuck in our own communes if we dont wanna fly with planes around;)
skyisthelimitinc 1 year ago
@kenz1031 No shit Shurlock
aerotown42 1 year ago
thats deadly:)
colmk07 1 year ago
@colmk07 is not, only if ur a whimp
supportgunner 1 year ago
first lol that was funny
phenixking300 1 year ago