Doug Cox said:
I was perusing Greenies site and looking at the Judsons. Are these units working their way up towards the upper part of the price scale or am I totally out of the loop in respect to what truckmounts cost? Or am I just misinformed?
Doug,
I don’t know when the last time was you checked our prices. There has been an increase in the last 3 years due to the quadruple price increase of stainless. We make our recovery tanks out of 11 gauge stainless steel 304. A lot of manufacturers that offer stainless recovery tanks make them out of very thin stainless to lower their cost. We decided to not alter our design to cut costs. We have always made them out of 11 gauge and we are the only manufacturer that has a lot of units that are still in operation in excess of 25 years. The heavy duty construction of our recovery tanks is one of the contributing factors. If you look at the price of our new C-4, it is $17,500. It is a larger recovery tank than the TNT. The capacity is 150 gallons. Also the C-4 will sustain 240 degrees on a high flow wand. If you compare the performance of our units to a competitor’s unit, you will see that the C-4 is an extremely good value.
This is a picture of a TNT stainless recovery tank before it is assembled. Stainless tanks rinse extremely clean. If you look inside of one of our truckmounts that is extremely old like 20 -25 years, it looks new. There is no corrosion.
This is a photograph of a competitor’s aluminum recovery tank. All aluminum recovery tanks form electrolysis. This tank is about 6 – 8 years old and as you can see the electrolysis is pitting through the aluminum. There are some spots on this tank where it is completely corroded through to the outside of the tank due to electrolysis. This is one of the reasons we don’t use aluminum.
