00:00 [SOUND] The truck weighs about 22,000 pounds.
00:05 The trailer weighs 80,000.
00:07 It's a 76 foot barbecue pit.
00:11 It's the largest in the world.
00:12 [MUSIC]
00:16 Woo!
00:19 I love barbecue.
00:20 [SOUND] This meat right here is like candy.
00:26 Mm.
00:28 Mm, mm, mm.
00:29 Welcome to the Lone Star State.
00:32 Texas pride, 100%.
00:33 Yeah.
00:34 Where they do everything.
00:36 [LAUGH]
00:37 Bigger.
00:38 This is a 1997 Peterbilt 379 extended hood with a 550 cat,
00:42 18 speed, 355 rear end, racial.
00:46 I bought it brand new in 1997 from Peterbilt, Houston.
00:50 But it's what's behind this rig that's record size.
00:53 This right here is our firebox.
00:56 Yep, that's right.
00:59 This isn't just a truck, it's also a 76 foot long barbecue.
01:04 It's the largest in the world.
01:05 I've been a truck driver for 30 years and smoking meat for a long time.
01:10 This is my passion.
01:11 I enjoy doing this type of thing.
01:13 The truck weighs about 22,000 pounds.
01:16 The trailer weighs 80,000.
01:19 We have a TV screen up here in the front.
01:21 We have a cooler in the other side.
01:23 And we have our actual smoker in the back.
01:27 This pit was built at Texas Fibers down there close to Houston.
01:31 It took them about six months to build this.
01:34 We acquired this thing through a business deal.
01:37 It cooks anywhere from 8 to 12,000 pounds of meat.
01:40 It just depends on what you're cooking.
01:43 This is the best part I like right here is this big Texas on the back.
01:46 We have a lot of cookouts and cookoffs.
01:48 We just love what we do.
01:49 Today, Terry, his wife Kimberly, and a few local chefs
01:56 are cooking free food for the town's first responders.
01:59 We're feeding our local law enforcement, fire department, and EMS.
02:08 Whoever wants to come out that takes care of our community and keeps us safe.
02:12 I'm friends with a lot of these folks here in this town.
02:14 I was raised here.
02:16 I called dispatch and had a friend of mine send out a text that
02:20 anybody could come eat that wanted to come eat.
02:22 We do like to do the events.
02:24 It makes you feel good.
02:26 It takes about two and a half hours to get this up to temperature.
02:29 This is our firebox.
02:31 There's a heat exchange tube that runs from the rear to the front of this pit.
02:37 We have 24 smoking compartment doors on here.
02:40 Woo, there's some good ribs right here.
02:42 Woo.
02:44 Not no joke.
02:44 There's cutouts on the heat exchange tube that allows the smoke and
02:50 the heat to come up.
02:52 And this damper is what controls the heat that rises through it.
02:56 Oh man.
02:57 Mm.
02:59 Mm-mm-mm.
03:02 Good.
03:03 Right now we're at 250 degrees on these ribs.
03:07 We like to keep it right at that temperature.
03:09 We smoke them for hours and hours.
03:11 [MUSIC]
03:15 [LAUGH]
03:17 Good.
03:18 Well, we've got enough to eat for days.
03:20 [LAUGH]
03:22 We sure do.
03:23 Woo.
03:24 We're at the end of the pit.
03:26 The firebox is at the other end.
03:28 And this is our largest smokestack.
03:30 This is the main one that creates the draft to all the other compartments.
03:34 Woo, this burn is good.
03:36 I could eat this all day.
03:41 All day.
03:42 Never get tired of this.
03:43 And when it's not feeding local firemen, cops, and
03:49 medics, this truck's done some emergency work of its own.
03:52 We have took it to the Salvation Army in Galveston several times and
03:57 fed the homeless and the veterans for Thanksgiving.
04:00 Also, we did Hurricane Harvey for Red Cross.
04:04 During Hurricane Harvey, we fed 55,000 people in 11 days.
04:09 So with a vehicle this long, what's it like taking it out for a spin?
04:13 It is costly to move it.
04:15 You have to have special escorts because it is overweight and
04:18 over-length.
04:19 To move out of our driveway alone, we have to have people block traffic
04:24 because it takes us all the way to the other side of the road.
04:27 In that case, better off staying at home, having a barbecue, and
04:31 doing Texas stuff.
04:32 [MUSIC PLAYING]
04:47 I love barbecue.
04:49 And it's so delicious.
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