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[KrautBurner]

I just went down to Oregon and picked up an old TRAEGER COM190 DOUBLE COMMERCIAL PELLET GRILL TRAILER
https://www.traegergrills.com/pellet-grills/commercial-competition-series/double-trailer

it's for my Church (where I am one of the "BBQ Guys")
we often have 5-10 Traegers (and a couple of SawTooths) running for many of our cooks
this should make things a bit easier  (especially compared to loading up 3 or 4 traegers in the back of a truck (all picked up from different locations) to do a BBQ

the COM-190 was owned by a restraunt that used it for about a month out of the year, each year, for about 6 years (then it sat for the past 2 years)
they recently replaced all the hotrods and a firepot as well as the controllers and an auger motor (it has the red display digital controllers with the "shut down" mode)

we've got some plans to "spruce it up" a bit
currently, it's with a sheetmetal fabricator, hopefully getting new hopper lids (or at least straightening the old ones) as well as a new utility box on the front (hopefully big enough for a car battery in a battery box, an inverter large enough for all 4 hotrods, and 4 bags of pellets)
next,  it's going over to another metal fabricator (blacksmith) to get new lid hold open brackets made as well as some other minor work
then it will be back to my father in law and myself to sand and re-paint the grill/trailer for our annual picnic next month (last year,  we did 128 racks of ribs) we're hoping to be doing briskets this year
I've also ordered new Stainless Firepots and drip buckets,  waiting on some stainless chimney caps to become available too


wish us luck

[TravlinMan]

Go Big or go home..

Nice find..

Send some pictures of you and them in action

Best of wishes...

Here is to lots of great eats .. 

[Bar-B-Lew]

If you develop an upper rack for each, you can probably cook 8 packers on each.  I have been able to make 8 pork shoulders on the main grates on my XL.  Probably cook get 16 if I had a high enough 2nd rack.  I bought the BBQ Hack Griddle that I plan to use on the right side of my XL.  Might be something you should consider to be able to use the grills as griddles too for another type of cook.  Best of luck to you.

[yorkdude]

Very nice, what a find.

[Bentley]

I remember those back in 2003!

[KrautBurner]

I remember those back in 2003!

that's the year of my old BBQ124

[glitchy]

A little elbow grease and a coat of paint and you’ll have a real beauty. Nice find.

[SmokinHandyman]

Nice. What did it cost?

[KrautBurner]

Nice. What did it cost?

picked her up for $2500

had another member add a new stainless tool box to the front as well as stainless hopper lids
another member is making a 2nd shelf for each side, also made new lid "hold open" brackets (2 for each side) and added some 3/16" steel plates to the heat deflectors and added brackets to hold the fireplace liner bricks on the sides (to prevent burning the paint)

[KrautBurner]

https://pelletfan.com/index.php?topic=3486.0

got a little stainless work added
(also replaced all 4 firepots with stainless 9 hole units, and added some 3/8" sheet steel to the tops of the heat deflectors)

next is a paint job  (maybe ordering some stainless sheeting to make new lids as well  (may do one for my 124 as well)
we also have a 3,000 watt inverter and an RV battery hooked up here for testing

[cookingjnj]

Wow, great find and what a difference already.  Hope you can share the final product as the start of the restoration has looked great.

[KrautBurner]

so far,  it's working out well,

we did 300+lbs of brisket 2 weeks ago for our annual picnic
(running 11 pellet smoker/grills)

now we're looking for a COM200 

[Canadian John]

 Thanks for keeping the story going.  That must have been one big picnic.