I have no idea what that guy's "hobby" is but you can look up the video on jewtube, I just didn't bother to watch the damn thing since I have better things to do. Actually, I think I will watch it now simply because I have this weird thing about extreme smoking rigs. I'll probably skip to the end and see if there was any justification for this monstrosity. I personally can't think of one but maybe he was (as you said) going for the worlds tallest thermometer award. And yes, I've been there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Tallest_Thermometer