Rex, you need to spend some time with a Judson unit and you will find out that exactly the opposite is true.
PTO units driven off the transmission are a possibility ( a very remote one) but I doubt that you will ever see a Cleanco-
Butler style unit driven by a shaft to an air-conditioning clutch ever from Judson.
There are now more than ever some serious changes of attitude occurring regarding slide ins. This mostly being driven by the current situation many people find themselves in regarding cost of operation, ease of maintenance and reliability - the stalwart - that most people have always perceived the PTO was better for these things than a slide in.
Ask people how much cost and hassle they have had with service by the local "experts".
Ask how many would want a more reliable unit.
Ask how many are out there right now that have had it with their current slide in or PTO unit who are looking for an alternative if for no other reason than significantly reduced fuel costs.
Why have a gas guzzler sitting in a driveway cooking the electrical system, transmission, and other components when you could have a quiet, lower fuel consumption unit running in the back of the truck that is just as or more powerful and as hot or hotter extraction as a PTO unit and not much more complicated than a pressure washer and a lawnmower.
Not all slide ins are the same. Over the years many manufacturers have made their fitments proprietary. This has caused a lot of people to be held hostage by their distributors or the manufacturer of their unit. Many times the service quality of some (I said some not all) distributors could be held into question.
The new generation of many of the big name units have fancy grilles but behind them is a rats nest of complicated mechanisms built on top of other dependent mechanisms that make it hard for many regular guys from working on their units for all but the most basic of maintenance routines. This is quite deliberate on the part of the majors as they and their distributors have a lot of overhead. They do have a choice to make things user serviceable, user understandable, user fixable but they won't.
Judson has the exact opposite attitude. The damn machine is a pressure washer with a positive displacement blower sucking on a tank. The hell with all the crap hanging off of it because IT IS MORE TROUBLE THAN IT'S WORTH.
They want you to be able to go to a local parts stores for replacements at competitive prices, they have made their units accessible for easy service and not complicated to understand. They use quality components and not the Chinese knock off crap found on some.
Stainless steel, battle hardened design, American made. I dare anyone here to compare a Judson unit for suck power blower size for blower size to any unit on the market. Most all the other similar looking equipment is a copy of the Judson but with lesser materials and components substituted. Don't confuse the look-a-likes with the real deal.
Shilling? - you bet I am and damn proud of it!
