I like how you explained that the volume of a 3" shell is significantly more than double that of a 1.5" shell. A lot of people have a hard time "wrapping their heads" around volume VS diameter. It was nicely laid out here!

You're discounting hobbyists who can easily make display size shells.

Wow, as someone who really likes fireworks, now I'm happy that in my country there are 3" (almost, 68.4mm) in diameter consumer shells. Sometimes it's hard to find a place for these to be as far from buildings as possible, but effects on them are totally worth it

A very great scientific explanation of the differences between 1.4 and 1.3 fireworks

Great video! I love fireworks. Always have lol. Very well explained video!👍🏾

I've realized that I've been using professional fireworks since 3rd grade! And it is legal in my country and a lot of kids love bursting them!!

Something we forgot to mention is that there are consumer shells marketed as 3" and 5" shells, essentially as a marketing gimmick. The size limit for consumer shells by law is 1.75" diameter (tinyurl.com/yb5cpb22 ) and are limited in the amount of explosive material they can contain (60mg per shell), so they don't have even close to the same bang as a professional 3" shell that has no such limit. The consumer shells marketed as 5" are actually 5" long, not in diameter, and again, are limited in the amount of net explosive weight they can contain. No matter what, consumer shells are limited in the amount of explosive material they can contain, so no matter what the marketing sells them as, they are not as powerful as a professional grade firework of the same size.

In Florida people are definitely getting their hands on some professional fireworks lol

Trynna get my hands on some 3” shells this year

I think there’s more of a medium ground here. Sure you have your 1.4G consumer grade fireworks and your 1.3G professional fireworks but I think that when most people tell you that they’ve seen the big professional grade fireworks, they aren’t actually referring to either type. The fireworks that they are seeing are illegally imported overpacked fireworks. Meaning they’re neither 1.4 or 1.3g. They’re fireworks that aren’t restricted to the legal amounts of pyrotechnic materials, so you end up with things like 1.75” canister shells with 100g of composition instead of the legal 60g amount. So they really are seeing shells that are bigger than normal but they’re still not nearly the size of an actual regulated 1.3G firework.

This is an excellent video

Very informative. Great upload. Thanks for your time spent explaining details like this! Instant subscription!

I wondered about that. Used to think they were pro shells until watching this video. But yeah, up close they appear to be the big stuff. However, the short launch time is a clue. My thinking was also motivated by the fact that since there were no pro shows (covid), the pro stuff was leaking into the general population as the manufacturers still need to make a living. Now I know better.

That low break was crazy 🤣

For the first time, I actually managed to get my hands on legitimate professional grade fireworks for my 4th display this year. Someone here in Chicago sold me a case off 4" and 6" salutes. The latter was the size of a fucking honeydew melon. It was so loud that the noise of the lift charge launching it out of the tube broke a car window on the street.

God bless u all

The video of the pro artillery shell going off too low was nuts. Pretty sure most people in the area watching went home and changed their pants.

I’ve seen a bunch of US youtubers launching up to 6” class b shells right in the middle of the street not 100ft from houses

People who know fireworks know when something “illegal” goes off in their neighborhood. Can’t mistake that sound for a canister shell.

ok yeah i totaly understand why its so heavily regulated now.

Consumer canister shells have good lift and breaks. The 9 shot 3" finale cake/boards also have excellent performance. Also seen some single shot tubes that are nice. Probably some of these should be better regulated for consumer use. I am a huge fireworks fan, so much so I went through the red tape to become 1.3g/type 54 licensed. But seeing people that don't have the proper respect for the power of some consumer stuff scares me a little as well as gives the firework industry a bad reputation.

If i light a firework inside, like in the bathroom, should i take it outside or just shut the door?

I have kids and my neighbors light off fireworks every holiday and they set off at least one or two whenever they feel like it just to be annoying. We live in a pretty tight neighborhood with a decent amount of kids. I think they are definieron using some non consumer fireworks. I wouldn’t even care if they lit them within a 20 minute time frame. But they light them sparsely for 2 hours or so.

...huh, guess im still in the kiddy pool for the time being. To be fair, i just started studying fireworks this july (red apple's 6" top three runners) and lit some. All safety procedures was followed so the family hade a great time. Im still looking for the best of the best, inches wise.

Excellent video full of information for those from minimal experience to experienced, very interesting volume equation very usefull. Though I'd have to say 1.3G is widely available on the streets, and some stores will straight up just sell it to you, as is not talking just overloads. Even seen 10's for the first time for grabs this year. BE SAFE Pyros.

Excellent. Thanks!

I see pro shells going off in the city every year for the past at least 5 yrs.

Low breaks and strobe rockets going cato are two of my favorites.. 😆

PGI shot 16in shells in west fargo last year.

What about tube racks they go up very high and have huge breaks

Now the question is who will sell me pro grade fireworks.

I did once see a professional display somewhere in my former Florida neighbourhood, I was quite a way away and they were clearly the big ones that make that solid thud as they explode. Whether they were an illegal display, or just set up professionally and launched from the edge of the neighbourhood, I don't know though. How much do the 3"-5" shells cost (not including professional set-up costs)? Just wondering as was thinking about a professional display in Asia where fees are obviously lower...

So my 6 inch shells were pro grade ok😅

Shape of the break is telltale as well. Your consumer cans will not break nearly as "spherically" as your 1.3g "turnips". 🤙🙏

Seen 3" shells but also up to 10" in the streets. Now days some people don't care and are wild as fuck 🤦‍♂️

Maybe 3yrs ago, but nowadays got some people showing up with a trailer full of 1.3g products. And why wouldn't they? Make 2K off of a solid days work. Or drive around and make 10k a day all cash.

Täällä puolassa saa ostettua esimerkiksi.cobra 8 nec 100g flash.ja sitten on isompia.dum bum 650 ja paljon isompiakin.

In the netherlands we have 200 gram gigant maroon in the streets on new years

what about canister shells

I've been within range of a 3 and 4 inch low break before. The 3 inch was kinda cool looking I'm not gonna lie. A lot of people got urned that night in the crowd me being one of them. I had a star hit me by my shoulder left a little mark too. I'm used to getting burned so it didn't effect me much but some people didn't end up so good. Someone had one land on their head a couple people got holes burned through there clothes and burn marks. We were all at the edge of the caution tape a couple hundred feet away normally that's the best place to be. So after that first low break a couple people moved back but most of us stayed up there. Well not to long after a 4 inch low break happened. At this point most of the people knew this wasn't rite. It was like a waterfall of burning stars and debris falling down ontop of everyone. It was cool looking about 20 feet above your head but when you didn't look away your eyes and face got burned. A couple people didn't understand this from the first time so this time around they learned that lesson. At this point the guys setting it couldn't understand what just happened or why so the one guy walked over to a rack and you could tell he was irritated. He reached down in with flare and let like 3 or 4 of them go at same time you could hear the echo for miles! Lol a few years before that at the same display it started to rain that night out of no where? Normally if it was just a little rain whatever they speed it up a little and that's that show still goes on. Well not this year.. The rain just started pouring now mind you they didn't prepare for rain cause it wasn't supposed to. So after it just started pouring down rain hundreds of people started grabbing chairs and blankets and running in every direction in this huge neighborhood where cars where scattered everywhere. There was a truck load of racks and cakes are down in the middle of this baseball field where everything was set off now mind you these guys do everything with flares by hand. As soon as everyone started to leave they started setting them off 3 times faster sounded like the finale already after only 15 minutes well all but 2 minutes later of total chaos all you hear was a huge explosion that lit up the whole neighborhood it had to be atleast a 5 inch Shell as soon as that went off they lit everything they possibly could. For the next 10 minutes it sounded like a war zone... I've never to this day seen anything like that ever. People were running and screaming rain pouring you couldn't hear anything non stop salute shells going off ontop of everything else car accidents happened non stop flashing lights in the sky all kinds of colors everywhere. It was like if you take a professional finale and multiply it by 3. Then you had sirens on top of everything fire department was already there along with a couple ambulances and some police but they weren't prepared for this. If I remember correctly 1 or 2 people died that night.. the crazy part was it wasn't even from the fireworks! It was all because people freaked out over rain and ran like hell. Someone slipped and fell and because you could only see through the rain from the flashing lights of fireworks people didn't know there was someone on the ground. A few other people got kicked and knocked over I saw a couple people fighting that night too because someone kicked someone in the process of freaking out and screaming. I mean it was just total nonsense and chaos. You don't even see like this in movies it was that bad and all over rain. The fireworks were incredible though! On the plus side.

No one does a fireworks display like the military on 4th of july

i mean i bussed a 6inch salute in the backyard at 3am car alarm orgestra🤣🧨🧨🧨

apparently hes never seen the shell size they use in japan. 12'' shells are cute! in comparison

4:25 holy fck, this is awesome 😁😁

I would have to disagree with that low blow being a 3" dispaly shell out of a 4" tube. It looks more like a 5" display shell out of at least a 6" inch tube or some other generic rig setup, which is not out of the question

I dont know In cali it seems like a lot of average people are shooting off things that are 1.3 without a permit.

Los Ángeles is a whole other animal…

😩guess you haven’t been in Oakland ca lately

I got some five inch cannister shells this year and those are plenty big for neighborhoods.

Interesting.

i used to get the the 3 inch shells like the actual large 3 inch and wed launch em out of a steel tube…they were awesome it was easier to get them in the 90s and a gross (144) of 1/4 sticks of dynamite aka blockbusters

Hi I would like to know how I can get my ATF license and much it cost thanks.

whats the biggest you have fired?, ive seen a 24inch fired, the lift gave a decent thump

There's a lot of bootleggers out there selling 1.3 shells on the street. Also it's Display. Not professional.

if you were at my house it was LOL

It’s not a tremendous amount of red tape. In fact it was very easy to get a atf 54. Aside from the cost of a storage magazine it was cheap too🤷‍♂️

There are quite a few consumer canister shells that rival pro 3" shells in performance / noise. I know of some display companies that will opt to use consumer instead of 3" because of cost vs. performance.

😂 we debate if there gunshots or fireworks

how much lift charge is used on the 12in and 16in? id guess itd be over a pound to get the shell high enough lol

buying a wasp macing is cheaper than obtaining licensure in most cases. Formulas for fireworks are free, materials are cheap for pumping stars, and the best willow charcoal can be made at home legally . Professional displays are great and all but some of the best fire working outside the Ned Gorskis and basement captains of chemistry are leaps and bounds better. Safer? that's a question of individual liberty. Send it .

I can pretty easily obtain up to 6 inch shells and 4 inch strobe rockets and salute cans the size of a 12 oz can around this time of year. They are becoming increasingly easier to come by every year. But I’d rather just let my neighbors buy them because they’re like 100 bucks for just 1. Just type in certain keywords like salute, coconut, poster, or sticker

Got my hands on some 4” coconut shells this year and I’ll tell ya what, they didn’t disappoint. Supplier was selling 12” shells 😂

It is very easy to obtain your explosives license to buy 1.3 fireworks if your not a criminal, $100 and takes about 3 months. ALSO next to no red tape if you are buying and shooting as a hobby and not commercially. These fireworks distributors will help you get this license, they want to make money.

Even when the cakes say 1.3g ? With crazy amounts of shots ie; 221 shots

people can easily build their own shells though, hell i build my own m80's, screw the government telling me what i can and can't do, laws were ment to be broken!

I'm pretty sure that my neighbors aren't setting off consumer salutes.

I don't have a type 54 and I get 1.3 every year easily lol salute shells 4inch shells 5inch shells

You can make your own....didn't hear that from me, though. You know how the government is....control, control, control....lol

If these fireworks get in the hands of the wrong people, a lot can be doomed unfortunately. I've always loved watching professional fireworks displays

4:23 No way that's a 3" shell

2 and a half inch regulation in stockton ca. total bs

😅🤫

Yeah we can get 3" shells here man! I don't think consumers can get much bigger. Yet... haha

Lol my friend come to europe and you will be surprised about the amount of prof fireworks that is been lit with newyears eve😆

Mmmhmmm......

Someone in my neighborhood had some professional shit. Nothing but 6 inch 8 inch shells and sh*t on pallets. I went up to the dude seen the tubes etc everything was different.

Ha ha ha ha ha joker laugh

Your just hating. I pop 1.3 4 inch shells all the time in the street no problem. Your probably just jealous cuz more ppl sre buying they're own nowadays lol

Does it anger anyone else when you see people on youtube illegally obtaining the professional-grade stuff completely ignorant as to what they are doing, when in reality you yourself have enough knowledge and competence to most likely properly use these, you just don't have the money or time to obtain licenses and proper certification.

Consumer or not they(you know who) are firing this stuff horizontally at police officers! Many officers and first responders injured in past year at civil disturbances. One in Texas landed and exploded inside a patrol car with the officer INSIDE! They should outlaw all consumer fireworks for good.