Company picnic for 200+ and no turning back

Hi all!
New member and have read a lot on our site about quantity etc for the masses. My boss tasted my hobby recipes of ribs and pulled pork and wants me to cook for the company. He wants more food than our group can possibly eat so good to go on quantity. we're doing 50 racks of spare ribs and 14 butts for pulled pork.

My question is relating to the smoker size and the differences between using my personal smoker versus the massive unit our company owns and sends to our regional offices.

I'm assured that the unit holds temp well etc but wondering what the glaring differences are when using a massive unit vs a home sized smoker.

The picnic is this Saturday afternoon and I'm not able to get my hands on the trailer sized unit until the Friday before. I've never used it and will have no opportunity to test it out.

I can start as early as Friday at 10am and the picnic is at 2pm the next day.

okay, hit me. I know I'm an idiot for agreeing to this so let's try to get that part out of the discussion. I feel stupid already. I have had great success with doing up to 10 racks and 4 butts. What am I going to experience with 50 racks and 14 butts?

OKAY......... GO

Larry

i tried posting pictures of the unit but couldn't upload sorry. Well the good news is that the picnic went well. I learned a lot. We ended up renting a second trailer. 50 racks take up a lot of space so we put all the butts on the second unit.

Biggest lesson learned was that i needed multiple digital thermometers for the pork buts. After 12 hours or so the one i had my only thermometer in had reached 199 (I took a nap and bam we were there). I then opened up the unit and shut it off thinking i was going to wrap all of them and hold in coolers until it was time to head to the picnic. I decided to check the temp on the lower rack of butts and they were only at 175 degrees. I lost a lot of time getting the unit back to temp and it took another 4 hours to get the lower racked butts to temp. We had plenty of time so all went fine.

no doubt landarc.

well, still pretty happy with the results. I'm not a caterer, just a hobby guy and had never cooked for that many.

Out of 50 racks there were 3 left and out of 16 butts there was only 2 zip lock bags left.

i'm grateful for this site because there was a lot of good info.