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bbq anniversary
In 2020 we are celebrating forty years of building hand- made BBQ smokers and grills in Lancaster County, Penn- sylvania. Watch our anniversary video for the timeline of our history from 1980 to 2020.
Forty years ago, before the age of cell phones and PCs, in a small welding shop on a Lancaster County farm, the leg- endary work of a simple Amish craftsman was just begin- ning.
While corporations were pushing production limits with
industrial robots, Ivan Stoltzfus was busy serving local farmers in the quiet countryside of New Holland, PA.
With an outgoing personality, an inventive mind, and years of experience in metal working, Ivan enjoyed few things more than repairing equipment and designing new prod- ucts in his shop on the home farm.
When a customer asked Ivan to build a pig roaster, he de- signed and built the cooker in his custom welding shop. The happy customer spread the word, and before long, pig
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