An interview with Mike Palmer – the Founder of HydraMaster

[doylebloss]

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Mike Palmer is generally credited with being the first person to sell Truckmounted Carpet Cleaning equipment on a national basis. While several people certainly predated what Mike brought to the Marketplace with his SteamMaster Baron Mobile Cleaning Plant, having a nationwide sales force in 1971 certainly made him the first to really try to sell a truckmount throughout the country.

On the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of HydraMaster, Doyle Bloss had a chance to sit down with Mike and reflect back a little on those days at the very beginning.

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[Kenny Hayes]

Wasn’t the first truckmount sold a Bane

 

[Cleanworks]

Great interview. It's nice to see the history of how they started. My first Hydra-Master was a Bobcat with a 36 blower and propane heater. Was a great machine. One of my first portables was a Cleanmaster 450h. 2-7.2 inch 3 stage vacuums in parallel and a Hypro twin piston pump. Autofill with chemical feed and auto pump out. Very well designed machine. Hydra-Master is just over the border from me so we have a lot of them in use here. From time to time you will see old rusted out hulks of vans with a CDS still running with 300,000 miles and over 10,000 hours.

 

[Bob Savage]

Having retired recently and enjoying being retired, I have to give a shoutout to my faithful truckmount which has served me so well for over 38 years. It was in 3 different Ford vans and is still running like a new machine - Cat pump, Roots #45 blower, Honda motor, blazing LP heat, and an APO, running dual wands with a total of #12 flow.

 

[Numero Uno]

Met Mike 30 years ago...Very nice fella...

 

[The Great Oz]

We're pretty fortunate to have HydraMaster as a neighbor. They've been good to us and for us over those 50 years.

Good to see Mike still getting out on the course. (Don't touch his clubs!)

 

[Alynjones9]

Good read... thanks for sharing