go to the beach my biggest issue is
dealing with an umbrella oh my gosh it's
either trying to get it in the ground
keep it in the ground keep it from
flying away well bill squirming horn is
the president of beach bub USA and he's
here to tell us about this invention
that is gonna make your beach experience
shaded and pleasant so thank you for
joining us Eric thanks for having me
yeah so just really quick you told me
how you came up with this invention yeah
so nine years ago my wife and I were
down in Naples Florida sitting on the
beach sunny when d-day unfortunately a
beach umbrella went flying down the
beach had a metal screw thing on the
bottom
and injured a small child they took her
to the hospital and as I watch people
the rest of the day people were
struggling with their beach umbrellas
and I just had one of those moments and
I said you never see patio umbrellas
flying around and it's because it's got
a large base attached to the bottom of
the of the pole okay I said if you're
gonna make that portable we could use
the sand on the beach for the weight so
we got this is where I came up with this
idea all right so it's really simple
because I was walking around we've got
one over here
I had it over my shoulder it's not like
anything that's obtrusive and that's
really gonna make you're going from the
car to the beach or stressful and then
settin up so simple people all right so
this piece is your base yeah so let me
show how it works oh so the way it works
is this right here is the beach bub this
was the this was the invention it's a
tarp that's basically all it is okay and
it's got a hole in the middle it's got
three grommets so what you do is you
take this pole this is this is the pole
of the beach umbrella system and it's
got an anchor collars you see right
there you're gonna insert this down
through the center of the hole on the
beach even though sometimes especially
on the beaches out here Jacksonville the
the beach out here the the the sand is
really far and so even getting it down
this distance right here can be a
problem so this is the next invention
that came up with it's as simple it's
called the sand gopher and what you do
is you pull this pushes down through the
beach bub and you're gonna pull it out
and fling the sand out in ten seconds
you're gonna have a perfect hole to
receive your beach umbrella I have spent
so much time fighting with the sand and
naked my little diva like go down to the
water get me some wet sand and some
water and bring
so I come in I go for yep put Yoho
Poland and now this is what its gonna
look like now this is a prop that that
this is what its gonna look look like
when it's sitting on the beach this is
how far it goes into the sand right here
now this is the unique thing about it
I'm gonna ask you a question this is
this is when it's filled with sand how
much is that gonna weigh I mean 10 15
pounds this weighs 125 pounds after I
fill it was saying after you filled with
sand umbrella is not going anywhere so
it does a couple things
it sets a protocol up for everybody that
struggles with the umbrella you know
exactly what you're gonna do it takes
about two minutes because you're
shoveling sand and that's all you do it
prevents her from tipping over and then
it also with all this way to prevents it
from flipping down the beach and then
what we did is we actually had to come
out because her customers after I
invented this they came back and said
where do you find a number a little
matching utility of this base and so I
went looking I could not find an
umbrella that would match the utility so
we actually built the umbrella so this
is the umbrella we built this umbrella
will stand up in a 35 mile an hour wind
all day long and it only weighs the
whole setup only weighs 9 pounds so I
think we got one over here that this is
how much this entire system weighs only
try to curl that one arm crew that's it
I didn't make my little weak area yeah
so so it's amazing so mom's with young
children who first start going out with
the beach umbrella and they start
experiencing it because they don't want
their children to be exposed to the Sun
they they they are gravitating this
because this is easy for everybody to do
that I mean and like you said especially
moms because sometimes they have to go
out by themselves right and but this is
gonna make my life a whole lot more
pleasant yeah how many scoops of sand is
the average are you gonna need so it
takes about it takes about 40 or 50
scoops are saying this is the shovel
that we give to you and it literally
takes about 2 minutes and actually it
gives the kids something to do the kids
love doing this yeah so as you're
setting up all the other things to
chairs and everything else and getting
your station all set up the kids can be
doing this instead of running off and
then you're trying to sit there and
figure out where the kids are and
everything they're set there and they
love it's like building a sandcastle I
love it I
it's oh it's not yet available in stores
but you can get it at Amazon maybe use
that Amazon Prime special or you can go
to beach bub usa.com to make your order
thanks so much yeah it's just beach bub
calm yeah go to Amazon it is it's blown
out right now yeah we'll be back with
more River City live right after this