Childhood Memories of Our First Home made Firecrackers

[CINDERS]

In 1984 I aquired @200' of white det cord and a full box of 700 mili-second Du-pont electric dets cannot remember where but that was the circles I was moving through at the time kept the cord in the fridge, we got to thinking go cut some trees down so out the scrub we go with the reel of wire @30' of cord and a det.
Wrap it around a small tree about a foot round tape the det to the outside of the wrap run the 100' wire to the HQ parked up motor running, bonnet up, 4 doors open, hold the neg on then the +ve oh hell bloody great bang, slam the bonnet down, all jump in the bloke behind the passenger gets to wind the reel in as we scarpered.
We went back a few weeks later too inspect the results and were happy with the affect, did it a couple of more times then I got to thinking we were really playing a stupid game as I had never been taught to cut det cord I just cut it like a carrot but you are supposed to pare it like slicing a bean otherwise you exerting a crush force on it and risking it going bang. I ended up giving what was left to a policeman I was friendly with and heard nothing more about it but I would have lost my firearms never to own one again and into jail you go.

Yes I was a bit wild in those days other stories as well but they are just a bit to out there