Firework launch site area

[joe609]

Just curious as to how much space you guys have to set of your devices and how close to neighbuors you are. My garden is roughly half an acre and i have neighbours on either side which is quite restricting to what i can do, usually means i have to do lots of tests to make sure they go right before doing them properly.

[Pyrohawk]

Basically I have no or very few restrictions...... I have 10 acres of field on my property. Beside me on either side is fields and woods my neighbors own but they live far enough away noone can see me. Soon there will be new neighbors moving in I guess.....but they will be a football field away and behind a small woods so it should still be ok.

 

When I want to fire I just step out my door and fire stuff...any direction at any time.

 

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My Front Yard

 

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My Back Yard

 

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The Side Yard

[ewest]

Oh man, I'm so jealous of you guys with all the space. I live in a subdivision with the neighbors house just about 10ft away. I can't shoot anything off at my place unless it's a holiday and then I'll sneak them in with the commercial stuff.

 

I do have relatives in another state though that have somewhere between 50 and 75 acres. So every chance I get I go out there and shoot stuff until my heart is content or I run out of materials.

 

If I've really made something cool and just can't stand to wait, I'll wait for my neighbor to leave for a while and I'll sneak over to his place and shoot from his back yard.

[pyrochris]

Oh man, I'm so jealous of you guys with all the space. I live in a subdivision with the neighbors house just about 10ft away. I can't shoot anything off at my place unless it's a holiday and then I'll sneak them in with the commercial stuff.

 

I do have relatives in another state though that have somewhere between 50 and 75 acres. So every chance I get I go out there and shoot stuff until my heart is content or I run out of materials.

 

If I've really made something cool and just can't stand to wait, I'll wait for my neighbor to leave for a while and I'll sneak over to his place and shoot from his back yard.

We use a shoot site courtesy of J+J pyro!

[_DB_]

I'm sitting on about an acre of land that's in town, if you consider a population of 900 to be a town. I do small tests in my yard such as burning compostions and such, but never anything that has the potential to make a loud report.

 

For more exciting things I just find random places out in the vast farmland that surrounds my town to set them off at.

[Chemguy]

You guys are so lucky, I live in a city, with an average sized garden, But I destroyed the old garden to such an extent that we had to get in an architect to design a new garden.

 

Now I can't use it any more.

[Mephistos Minion]

Well, I live in the suburbs, so I can't set much off in my yard. I have a 90 acre vineyard for that

[cplmac]

We have 8 acres and are surrounded by farm field. We basically have two neighbors, one is about 500' north of us, and the other is about a quarter mile south of us.

[ULTRABUF]

I live about half a mile from town and right across the street from my house is a forest. Its probably almost 1 square mile, and relatively close to the center is this large field type thing where the city workers dump leaves and yard waste and sand from the beach and stuff like that. And down the street there is a small lake/river where I lit off my first starmine. Those are basically my test sites.

[itwasntme]

This fucking sucks. I live in a major city in a highly urbanized area. Rowhouses My neighbor is 5 feet from me.

[shadopyro]

I live in a relatively populated town, which means that everytime i wanna do anything more than burning compositions i have cycle into woods or cycle out of town to set stuff off.

Rather annoying.

[h0lx]

I live in a city, in a concrete jungle.. small devices I can let off in front of my house as no one cares, if they not so loud or anything, bigger devices, I walk 800m to a park/forest thingy, which has a sand field in the middle, with low density of people.

[Von Bass`]

I live in a village, so I am in within walking distance of some fields where i can set things off. I can do garden size fireworks in my garden though. I wish i had somewhere better for shells.

 

Still on looking at some people, i should probably be glad of what i have!

[Chemguy]

I don't know about you, but do all neighbours seem to hate fireworks, explosions, or any form of enjoyment, as I posted before, I live in a rather large city, in one of the more civilized suburbs. This annoys me, why can't there be more amateur pyros where I live.

[cplmac]

I think as a general rule most people don't like loud explosions, especially if they are not expecting them. Pretty much any really loud noise irritates folks.

[fizeau]

Hello, I´m a newbie here, sitting with a english-dictionary in front of my pc...And so I know it´s better to be quiet and read before posting. But this is the right thread for starting.

Big, loud explosions are a criminal act in my country, I´m living in the near of a big town, here is no place to test anything pyrotek.

So i must drive deep into black forrest when I´m testing something

which went of with a bang.

cplmac, thanks for your inspiration in the "red flash" thread, I would try it with a KMnO4/LiNO3 and S/Al Mix. Must work fast to bring the powder in a little plasticbag before it get wet. The problem is to bring this stuff out of the city...You americans are lucky!

[cplmac]

We certainly are blessed with more real estate than the Islanders. Good luck with the red flash. I'm going to mix up a batch of the Strontium Nitrate tonight.

[Rogue Chemist]

I havent done much pyro stuff for a few years now, but I am slowly getting back into it. I used to set everything off in my yard, which was middle of suburbia. However with CATOs, and other failed devices, the bang would cause the neighbors to turn their lights off and look outside. I even had the police helicopter fly over once with searchlight going after a particularly bad rocket failure(luckily that was done in a field nearby and not my backyard). But then I stopped pyro, for mainly chemistry, which the neighbors still did not like, or at least I did not like them to see me. Now I am slowly getting back into pyrotechnics, and I just drive as far from the city as possible for setting off anything. Tested out a nice area by setting off commercial stuff for a hour or so. Nothing happened, so I'm good.

[Swany]

I have a field across from me, a fairly large yard on either side, some isolated parks down the street a bit, and huge masses of land south, north, east, and west of town with those belonging to me being south.

 

So, I can do stuff in my backyard providing it isnt loud or cato, I can do stuff at the parks descreetly, and anything goes out at the farm.

[asilentbob]

I have access to around 40 acres of hill country in central-ish texas, its just open field with the occasional tree. Its hunting country, so booms arn't really un-usual. Its like 35-45min drive from where i live which is somewhat in the vecinity of lake travis. If you don't mind me asking, where about in texas are you ewest?

 

If i don't want to drive out there i am surrounded with subdivisions and greenbelts. I can do test burns of compositions and stars, but im not comfortable doing anything louder, my dad on the other hand just casually walkes out in the street and fires potatto cannons and BP mortors firing small soft projectiles or just paper wading. I suppose i could do stuff out on the greenbelts, but if i was going to do something near i would probably bike atleast a mile or so away.

[Guest Mark_the_pyro]

I have tried stuff out in my friend's back yard. Its maybe 3 acres, and pretty much a large field, covered by a canopy of tall trees (branches starting at least 40-60 ft up) Its still the suburbs of Chicago, but still, much less cops compared to where I live. The neighbors really don't care what they do; here are two prime examples:

1) My friend once shot his AK and Five Seven at targets at the end of his yard (don't worry theres a dirt hill there), not one word from neighbors, or anything.

2) He (unlike me!!!) is a bit of a kewl, and he made an acetone peroxide bomb or some stupid thing like that, and all that happened was his mom going outside and saying "Are you lighting your fireworks off again ****?"

 

Point being, anything goes over there as long as its not something ridiculously huge.

[styropyro]

My "testing area" is in my backyard. I live in a neighborhood, but the houses are far apart. We have about 6 acres in the back, and there are new neighbors moving into a new subdivision about a mile away from us. I don't do anything too ridiculusly huge, and my neighbors don't really care, and one of them even likes to come over and watch when I do stuff. But one time before I began to make fireworks a few years ago, I got with my next-door neighbors and we were shooting off commercial stuff for two hours straight. I guess one of them didn't like it and she came outside screaming about how "annoying it was to hear booms all the time". But we quit shooting them off that day, living in Illinois you are (legally) restricted down to fountains and smoke bombs. I also remember when I did too many "sodium in water" tricks for a day and a neighbor complained about it "sounding like it was the fourth of July." But I do need to respect other people around the area because I don't want to get in trouble, so I just limit myself to 2 big Arial shells max a day. I really need to find an area where I can do some bigger stuff, I don't do anything larger than 4" where I live.

[oriansbelt]

I used to live in the middle of a 300,000+ town next door to a sheriff on a 1/2 acer and the sheiff helicopter flew over almost every night. We had a canal behind our house and we were pretty much the only ones that ever went back there so I could do small stuff if I walked down far enough.

But now we live in the country with land all around us. I can do anything here just right in frount of my house but a usually expend the effert to walk to an old gravel quarry on the property for salutes. I can't do any arial stuff in the summer because the risk of it starting a grass fire is just way to high but when everythings green the sky is the limit(literally). I love it here more than most because I know what it was to be in the middle of town for a pyro.

[maximusg]

i live in a small town... my immediate neighbors don't really mind if i set small stuff off in my back yard... But i usually go out to one of my friends and their 400+ acre farms... too much space...