Traeger Ironwood 885 vs Woodridge Pro
A superseded flagship at around $1,008 against the current Woodridge Pro at $1,149.99. Insulation and a 165 F smoke floor, against 85 more square inches.
It depends — and here is on what
The Ironwood 885 is the better smoker; the Woodridge Pro is the safer purchase. The Ironwood opens Super Smoke at 165 F behind insulated walls and sells around $1,008 — but Traeger files it under Legacy and gives it three years, the brand's shortest term. The Woodridge Pro cooks on 970 sq in across two racks, engages Super Smoke only between 185 and 225 F, and carries ten years against rust-through with load-rated shelves and all-terrain wheels. Our scores land 8.26 and 8.24, which is as close as this corpus gets.
What actually differs
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Where Super Smoke starts
165 F on the Ironwood against a 185 to 225 F band on the Woodridge Pro. Heavy smoke lives at the bottom of the dial, so a lower floor is the one capability that genuinely favours the older grill.
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Legacy against current
Traeger's own site files the Ironwood 885 under Legacy. That is what the $140 discount is, and it is also what you accept: parts, firmware attention and resale all follow the current line.
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Ten years of rust cover against three
The Woodridge Pro headline is rust-through on sheet metal for ten years, with three on the controller, auger and fan. The Ironwood is three years all in, stated two different ways on Traeger's own pages.
The scorecard, side by side
Both reviews are scored on the same six weighted categories, each bar on the same 0–10 scale, and every cell carries the reason that review gave. A row is marked won only where the two differ by a tenth or more. How we score →
Super Smoke opens at 165 F where the current $1,399.99 Woodridge Pro Plus waits until 185 F, behind insulated side walls.
Super Smoke and a two-rack 970 sq in barrel, though the published ceiling stops at 500 F and there is no sear station.
Three years is Traeger's shortest term, the brand states it two ways for this grill, and resale kills it outright.
Ten years covers rust-through only; the controller, auger and fan carry three years, and the hot rod and cord one.
Porcelain coated steel grates, a stainless shelf and double-walled construction, on a barrel whose steel Traeger still declines to name.
Load-rated shelves, casters and staging hooks at 174 lbs, but Traeger publishes nothing at all about the steel.
A pellet sensor, a cleanout trapdoor and 5 F steps from a phone remove the two chores cheaper Traegers keep.
WiFIRE control, a pellet sensor reporting in 5% steps with app alerts, and one-touch Super Smoke and Keep Warm.
Around $1,008 buys insulation and a 500 F ceiling that Traeger's own $1,399.99 Woodridge Pro Plus does not list.
$250 over the base Woodridge buys the flavor feature, two shelves and 110 sq in; the next step buys a cabinet.
The hopper empties without tools, but Traeger's own chart marks it absent for the EZ-Clean grease and ash keg.
One keg takes grease and ash together, yet the firepot still wants a monthly vacuum and a creosote scrape.
Published figures that differ
Quoted from each maker's own specifications, as each review records them. Figures the two products publish identically are left out — only the differences are listed.
Which one is for you
You smoke heavily, want insulation and the 165 F floor, and accept a discontinued model.
Check price →You want the current grill, more grate, load-rated shelves and the longer rust cover.
Check price →More head-to-heads
Every score and figure on this page comes from our own reviews of these two products, linked above. We have not tested them side by side in one place; the comparison is between two full reviews, each built from the maker's published specifications and documentation. Prices move, and the ones quoted are the ones each review checked on its own date.