In the early 90s, I was up in Idaho working as a motorcycle referee for the United States bicycling federation during a 14-day women’s stage race known as the Ore-Ida classic. At the finish of one of the stages in the small town of Grangeville, A young school teacher stood next to the day’s winners […]
Author: docbrown
I was at a customers property last week repairing a broken PVC sprinkler lateral line. It was in the rear of their house about 100 feet at the bottom of a hillside. The customer had tried to dig it up before I got there and succeeded at filling the pipeline full of mud and debriss. […]
Some customers when they call are frustrated with their sprinkler system. They may have trouble programming the control timer, tired and worn out from bailing water out of a water leaking control valve box, yellow or struggling turf grass lawn that the sprinkler irrigation is not covering properly. I can read this in their voice […]
With all of the winter and spring time moisture we’ve had in 2017 it has caused the weed seedling germination to take off this late spring. It’s become more necessary than normal to apply liquid weed killer (round-up) to the existing broadleaf weed’s that have taken hold and sprouted around your yard. Also a reminder […]
In the May 2017 issue of irrigation and green industry magazine they mentioned me in their article about wireless irrigation controllers and their benefits. Back in the early part of the last century an exciting invention called the “wireless” was the word of the day! Radio was not only brand new, it was transformative… suddenly […]
