Hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th of July. This year I experimented with constructing a mortar rack for my finale. There is nothing more exciting than building a contraption that launches 24 artillery shells in less the 30 seconds while in the close confines of a suburban environment. What could go wrong? Luckily everything went off smoothly and no one or thing was blown up. As much as I worried about something going wrong with the mortars, a fountain proved to be the scariest firework we had. The Tailgate Party fountain started out unassuming enough and then about 5 minutes in it got angry. People were running, the neighbor’s truck was endangered, traffic was halted, it was awesome!
If you decide you want to endanger yourselves, your property, and your neighbors property by building a mortar rack be sure to get the right tubes. DO NOT USE PVC PIPE. I got my tubes from Pyrodirect.com.
And for everyone that said, "It's dry, don't catch anything on fire..." suck it. Nothing even came close to catching on fire, well except the neighbors trash can but that wasn't my fault. Here is my mortar rack in action. The video is terribly composed because I went from horizontal to vertical with my phone midway through the shot so it looks like the mortars are shooting sideways. I assure you the mortars were shooting UP into the air. I also forgot I was shooting video and only got about half of the breaks in the sky. Oops!
Nice rack! That is very true never use pvc for mortar tubes.
ReplyDelete