Hello my fellow pyros!

[N3OQO]

Hello everyone, I am Bill. I found some of Dave's videos on YouTube and followed them to his site here. I grew up at a time when the art of Pyro was OK in consumer fireworks but it has since gotten much better safety wise, and in the options that are available now. We had M80's and cherry-bombs back then, some nice bottle rockets, but nothing like it is now at least in my experience. Now you can light a cake and get the BOOM, but it is up in the air away from everyone and no one loses a finger. ;) I look forward to following the discussions here. Nice to have a forum, and nice to meet you all.

Regards to all,

Bill

[jknepp1954]

Bill - welcome to Pyrotalk. A city slicker huh? ;) Just kidding - welcome
Hope to meet you some time this year... we have a store in central Pa - just a short 3 hr drive! :cool:

[PyroJoeNEPA]

Welcome to the Forum Bill. There are lots of "PA" people on here.

[displayfireworks1]

If you live it Pittsburgh we need to put you to work at my annual sportsman club display.
You live in Munhall Pa I have an old video from a fireworks display there. The year 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf06la2qtS8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogQpDNjuPI8

[N3OQO]

Thanks very much for the welcome! I've had fun with consumer fireworks most of my life, and love to make decent displays. Dave, I would be happy to help if you ever need a hand. I am not a pro, but I do what I do in life because I love it, and therefore decent at it.

Thanks and regards!

[N3OQO]

Shorter version of last year, 4th/5th 2013. No pro by any means, but I got the party into gear. ;)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=612363758784204&set=vb.100000317561576&type=3&theater

[Westpapyro]

Welcome to Pyrotalk from a Northern "Piks-Burger" guy. Yinz Guys and Dat want to get togethers some-time and nat. Just let me know!

[jknepp1954]

i thought it was "younz guys" .... was in SE PA several years back at a new supplier for us at the time. I think these guys were from NJ or NY -= anyway - started a conversation with them and said "younz guys" - they asked me if i was from Pittsburgh - i said NO = but about 50 miles from there - close enough they said! LMAO....

[displayfireworks1]

Ok now that we are talking Pittsburgh aka Piks Burgh, here is my favorite local YouTube guy "Pittsburgh Dad" in case you have not seen him.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgNtCEwTKno

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR0biyqNVKM

[Westpapyro]

Nope I'm a Yinzer. Definition
yins, yinz, yunz, you'uns, or youns pr. Second person plural personal pronoun.[2][3][16] (McElhinny 1999; Wisnosky 2003; Johnstone, Andrus and Danielson 2006).
Geographic distribution: Southwestern Pennsylvania and elsewhere in Appalachia (see above citations).
Further explanation: See yinz article. Yinz is a particularly salient feature of Pittsburgh speech,[9] possibly because it has no equivalent in Standard American English, though other second-person plural pronouns, such as "y'all" in Southern American English, do exist.
Origins: Along with the yous of New Jersey and the y'all of the South, yinz is Scots-Irish[16] (Montgomery 2001).

Link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_English

[displayfireworks1]

Ok jknepp1954
I know you are from Pennsylvania but not Pittsburgh, this video is for you. Boy we are off fireworks topic now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7ek7SWauEI

[Westpapyro]

LMFAO, now that's funny!
Sorry for going off topic.

[displayfireworks1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah9OvDIg8sE
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Ok since I am feeling all Pittsburgh I am bringing out one of my old unlisted videos from 2011. It been off line for a while, but you get a good shot of Pittsburgh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXwvZ73sms