00:00The truck weighs about 22,000 pounds, the trailer weighs 80,000.
00:06It's a 76-foot barbecue pit, it's the largest in the world.
00:12I love barbecue.
00:20This meat right here is like candy.
00:25Welcome to the Lone Star State.
00:32Texas pride, 100%.
00:34Where they do everything.
00:37Bigger.
00:38This is a 1997 Peterbilt 379 extended hood with a 550 cat, 18 speed, 355 rear end racial.
00:46I bought it brand new in 1997 from Peterbilt, Houston.
00:50But it's what's behind this rig that's record size.
00:54This right here is our firebox.
00:57Yep, that's right.
00:59This isn't just a truck, it's also a 76-foot long barbecue.
01:03It's the largest in the world.
01:06I've been a truck driver for 30 years and smoking meat for a long time.
01:10This is my passion, I enjoy doing this type of thing.
01:14The truck weighs about 22,000 pounds, the trailer weighs 80,000.
01:18We have a TV screen up here in the front, we have a cooler in the other side, and we have
01:24our actual smoker in the back.
01:28This pit was built at Texas Fibers down there close to Houston.
01:31It took them about six months to build this.
01:35We acquired this thing through a business deal.
01:37It cooks anywhere from 8,000 to 12,000 pounds of meat, it just depends on what you're cooking.
01:43This is the best part I like right here is this big Texas on the back.
01:46We have a lot of cookouts and cook-offs, we just love what we do.
01:50Today, Terry, his wife Kimberly and a few local chefs are cooking free food for the town's
01:58first responders.
02:00We're feeding our local law enforcement, fire department, and EMS.
02:08Whoever wants to come out that takes care of our community and keeps us safe.
02:12I'm friends with a lot of these folks here in this town, I was raised here.
02:16I called dispatch and had a friend of mine send out a text that anybody could come eat
02:21that wanted to come eat.
02:23We do like to do the event, it makes you feel good.
02:25It takes about two and a half hours to get this up to temperature.
02:30This is our firebox.
02:31There's a heat exchange tube that runs from the rear to the front of this pit.
02:37We have 24 smoking compartment doors on here.
02:40There's some good ribs right here.
02:43It's not no joke.
02:46There's cutouts on the heat exchange tube that allows the smoke and the heat to come
02:51up.
02:52And this damper is what controls the heat that rises through it.
02:56Oh, man.
02:58Mmm.
02:59Mmm, mmm, mmm.
03:01Good.
03:02Right now, we're at 250 degrees on these ribs.
03:07We like to keep it right at that temperature.
03:09We smoke them for hours and hours.
03:12It's good.
03:13Well, we've got enough to eat for days.
03:22We sure do.
03:23Woo!
03:24We're at the end of the pit.
03:26The firebox is at the other end.
03:28And this is our largest smokestack.
03:30This is the main one that creates the draft to all the other compartments.
03:34Woo!
03:35This bird is good.
03:39I could eat this all day.
03:41All day.
03:42Never get tired of this.
03:44And when it's not feeding local firemen, cops and medics, this truck's done some emergency
03:51work of its own.
03:52We have took it to the Salvation Army in Galveston several times and fed the homeless and the
03:58veterans for Thanksgiving.
04:00Also, we did Hurricane Harvey for Red Cross.
04:04During Hurricane Harvey, we fed 55,000 people in 11 days.
04:09So, with a vehicle this long, what's it like taking it out for a spin?
04:13It is costly to move it.
04:14You have to have special escorts because it is overweight and over-length.
04:18To move out of our driveway alone, we have to have people block traffic because it takes
04:24us all the way to the other side of the road.
04:26In that case, better off staying at home, having a barbecue and doing Texas stuff.
04:33I love barbecue.
04:53And it's so delicious.
Comments