Pot cooked green beans

Add some bacon grease and some Ham hocks.

Smoke a brisket, dice it and add it to the beans.

Ham hocks, bacon with some of the grease, fresh onions and garlic. Some folks add some fresh sliced mushrooms. Check the saltiness before you add any.

That's a lot of beans!

Drain beans. Use fresh water or light (De-fatted) chicken stock. I would buy a combination of fresh ham hocks and neck bones. Season and smoke them with oak/hickory/pecan etc.
If you can't find fresh, the grocery store ones will work if you smoke them again. Use fresh diced garlic, salt, a little black pepper, and a bit of red pepper flakes. Add a little bacon drippings if you like. Simmer and soak. Simmer and soak. Simmer and soak. Remove neck bones and hocks, retaining any tender meat.

Saute onions in bacon grease. Dump half water out of beans. Season with salt,pepper little sugar. Add lots of butter.

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Brown some bacon with some trinity.

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Guys, he is cooking 70 gallons . You realize how much trinity he'd have to chop (unless buying already chopped) and bacon that he'd have to cook? He said he wanted something "easy." Adding trinity and bacon is gonna take a lot of time and energy, and $$$. He's already got a lot of work in just opening 70 1 gallon cans of green beans!

I agree that all those things will add to the flavor of the beans, but IMO for that quantity, I would try to keep it as simple as possible. You don't have to do anything to ham hocks but throw them in there. If you really want to add other veggies, buy already chopped or frozen if you want to spend the money.

Go out and buy 15 jars of Better Than Bullion Ham Base. Buy a small honey baked ham.

Season the beans with four Tablespoons of oil, a Tablespoon of sugar and 1 - 2 Tablespoon of Better Than Bullion Ham Base per gallon of green beans. Do not keep the liquid from the cans. Drain it off, because it makes the beans taste "tinney" like the can. Add tap water to cover the beans. Cut up the ham and divide it equally between the pots of beans.

Bring the pots up to boil temperature and taste the broth. If you like the way it tastes, the beans will be fine. They will taste no better than the broth tastes.

Happy it isn't me cooking all those green beans.

Give yourself plenty of time. It will take a while to bring big pots up to a boil and they need to cook maybe a hour maybe two at a low boil (more than a simmer) to get the flavor right.

This is a lot of beans - 20 (half cup) servings per can or 1400 servings!

Just so you know...... Large #10 cans are NOT one gallon. They are 108 ounces.

I forgot about better than bouillon. Great advice! That stuff is perfect for large dishes in lieu of broth.