Terry: The truck weighs about 22,000 pounds.
The trailer weighs 80,000.
It's a 76 foot barbecue pit.
It's the largest in the world.
Whooo I love barbecue.
This meat right here is like candy.
Welcome to the Lone Star State.
Terry: Texas pride 100%.
Where they do everything bigger.
Terry: This is a 1997 Peterbilt 379 extended hood.
with a 550 cap 18 speed 355 rear end ratio.
I bought it brand new in 1997 from Peterbilt, Houston.
But it's what's behind this rig that's record size.
Terry: This right here is our firebox.
Yep, that's right, this isn't just truck.
It's also a 76 foot long barbecue.
Terry: It's the largest in the world.
I've been a truck driver for 30 years and smoking meat for a long time.
This is my passion. I enjoy doing this type of thing.
The truck weighs about 22,000 pounds. The trailer weighs 80,000.
We have a TV screen up here in the front.
We have a cooler on the other side.
And we have our actual smoker in the back.
This pit was built Texas fibers down there close to Houston.
It took them about six months to build this.
Kimberly: We acquired this thing through a business deal.
It cooks anywhere from eight to 12,000 pounds of meat.
It just depends on what you're cooking.
Terry: This is the best part I like right here is this big Texas on the back.
We have a lot of cookouts and cookoffs.
We just love what we do.
Today Terry, his wife Kimberly and a few local chefs
are cooking free food for the town's first responders.
Terry: We’re feeding our local law enforcement, fire department and EMS,
whoever wants to come out that takes care of our community
and keeps us safe.
I'm friends with a lot of these folks here in this town I was raised here.
Kimberly: I called this dispatch and had a friend of mine send out a text
that anybody could come eat if they wanted to come eat.
We do like to do the event. It makes you feel good.
Terry: It takes about two and a half hours to get this up to temperature.
This is our firebox, there's a heat exchange tube
that runs from the rear, to the front of this pit.
We have 24 smoking compartment doors on here.
Whoo there’s some good ribs right here.
Whooo.
This is not no joke.
There's cutouts on the heat exchange tube,
that allows the smoke and the heat to come up.
And this damper’s what controls the heat that rises through it.
Oh, man,
good.
Right now we're at 250 degrees on these ribs.
We like to keep it right at that temperature,
be smoking for hours and hours.
It’s good, we've got enough to eat for days.
We sure do whoo.
We're at the end of the pit. The firebox is at the other end,
and this is our largest smokestack. This is the main one
that creates the draft to all the other compartments.
Whoo this burger is good.
I can eat this all day, all day.
Never get tired of this.
And when it's not feeding local firemen, cops and medics,
this truck’s done some emergency work of its own.
Kimberly: We have took it to the Salvation Army in Galveston
several times and fed the homeless and the veterans for thanksgiving.
Also, we did hurricane Harvey for Red Cross.
During Hurricane Harvey we fed 55,000 people in 11 days.
So with the vehicle this long, what’s it like taking it out for a spin?
Kimberly: It is costly to move it.
You have to have special escorts because it is overweight and over length.
To move out of our driveway alone,
We have to have people block traffic
because it takes us all the way to the other side of the road.
In that case, better off staying at home,
having a barbecue and doing Texas stuff.
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