Orrie Kopystanski, a Sales Representative here, received a phone call from a homebuilder in the town of Ocean Ridge who had a unique problem. Ocean Ridge sits on an island in the Intracoastal Waterway just West of the Atlantic Ocean.
Towns sometimes grant variances to overweight vehicles needing to cross bridges.
The builder went this route but Ocean Ridge refused his request. Orrie felt the most logical solution was to pump the concrete across the bridge through a two-inch hose. The process would take about three hours per truck. The transfer hose could jump out of the truck's hopper, damaging the truck. A worker would have to hold the hose for six hours while the pumping took place.