David Klose is America’s bell cow of extreme barbecue rigs. The founder of BBQ Pits by Klose in Houston, Texas has custom-built many of the world’s biggest, most beautiful and most ambitious smokers.

Once a week, Sunny Moberg sets a cutting torch onto the surface of steel containers that once held one thousand gallons of flammable fuel. These propane tanks, delivered to Moberg’s shop in Dripping ...

The shop itself doesn’t look like much, just two guys (or, usually, one) hacking away at metal tanks and fusing the pieces back together with some keen welding chops. At well under 800 square feet in ...

Plumber, Steve Baird converted this old hot water tank into a fully-functioning meat smoker. JOPLIN, Mo. — What can you do with your old hot water tank? You could sell it for the scrap metal, or you ...