Lee Stockwell said:
Bob was that a little inspiration for perfecting the modular?
Actually no, Lee, but if we had the modular back then, we wouldn't have gotten stuck in the mud. ...lol
The inspiration for the modular concept came one day when we had to clean a university on the second and third floors. There were so many twists and turns from the parking lot to the cleaning area inside, that running the 2" vacuum hose would take quite a while, not to mention the tangle it would create during the job.
So, we took our portable inside and used it only for the vacuum part of the cleaning. Then we ran the pressure line from the van for the LP heat and good high pressure for cleaning. It worked well, except for the bucket brigade with the portable, dumping the tank (it had no APO).
It's easy to run several hundred feet of 1/4" pressure line, and still maintain high heat and good pressure/flow, so by taking only the vacuum unit in, we are able to run the heat and pressure from the van, unless the job is way inside or up in a high-rise. Now, with our SAVAGE BEAST electric truckmount, we can take the pressure pump, the vacuum unit w/APO, and an optional electric heater easily inside, so we can clean any distance from our van.
During my early design phase of the SAVAGE electric truckmounts, I thought how great it would be to have a truckmount that would stay in the van the majority of the time (up to 190'), but would detach to allow for challenging job setups. I didn't want to have to drag a portable around in the van for those few times I night need it. I also used to turn down some jobs that would require a portable only, because of lack of power in using a portable. If you do find a portable with more power, it is too heavy and cumbersome to move about. Then it still lacks heat, unless you use LP, which is NOT "inside friendly" to take the LP heater in.
That was the start of my idea for a modular, electric powered truckmount. I had built one several years prior that we used almost daily, but it was as big as our slide-in, and did not come out of the van. It had great vacuum, good pressure/flow, and good Little Giant 3 HT heat, but it took too many amps to operate.
There were 3 things I thought a modular truckmount should be — powerful, compact and quick and easy to transport, and reliable.
After a few years of tweaking and refining, we now offer the BEAST and the E-BEAST, a very compact, powerful, modular electric truckmount/portable, that is stingy on using electric power, but will overcome setup obstacles encountered on some cleaning jobs.
Our modular design offers the cleaner so many different choices in job setup.
