I nearly lost my Suburban tonight. I went over to help a friend launch $3000 worth of fireworks tonight. He does a show every year. He has about 100 people come out, several people cook out. It is generally just a big deal.

It was raining off and on so we decided to load the fireworks in the suburban and move then out to where we were going to launch them. We got carried away shooting guns and didn't get everything unloaded from the suburban before it got dark. No big deal, we will just take them out of the burb as we go. There was a large trailer about 30 ft from the back of the burb that we were launching mortars from. Some of the mortars exploded and caused other mortars to explode, the concussion caused a variety pack to flip over and fireworks started going EVERYWHERE. Everyone ran for cover until it was over, as we were coming back we see stuff burning all around my suburban, but nothing had gone in it despite all the doors being open.





Here it is sitting loaded before we moved it over to the launch site.


My friend has a large ranch. We launch everything across the pond from everyone watching. The pond consumes about 4 acres.

 

Lucky bastard.

Amazing how even in a situation like that, someone can come out completely unharmed. Good to hear that not only your suburban, but you and your friend weren't hurt.

 

LOL, we have a rule, if any 4 letter words are called out, don't look, don't wait, just run like the wind, and when the noise stops come back. Works out pretty good for us.

 

I went out and looked over the burb this morning. It covered in mud and cow manure, but doesn't appear to be hurt anywhere. All is well.

 

wow. dude you did get lucky. Glad no one was injured.

 

LOL, to say the least.


My wife thinks she caught it on her cell phone. I am going to upload them off her phone tonight and see what you can see. I will post it up here if you can see it.

 

I was to tired to post this last night.

We initially connected the fuses on the mortars together with primer cord. A few didn't ignite, I ran through and lit them by hand. But still a few didn't light but the fuses fell into the tubes, we could figure out which ones so the plan was to not use that rack of tubes anymore. Apparently nobody listened to me and kept going. They launched mortars on top of other mortars which cause the multiple explosions. We started with 30 mortar tubes, when we were done 15 were left. Most of the tubes were loaded when the explosion happened. It was chaos.

 

Didn't catch the explosion. Towards the end you can see stuff start to explode. The constant little light at the bottom is my head. I was the only one with a flashlight, and it was one of those headlight things that goes on your head.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/HGzfdnt85bI

Somewhere in the middle

http://www.youtube.com/embed/VED4QTIaEPQ


And towards the end, that's my 4 year old cheering me on.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/yBSi9Z4SHLo


The show lasted a good 30-45 minutes

 

 

No worries, if anything happens to it, I will save the wheels and tires for you!