Forty-five years
on the same bench.
Some shops chase whatever's new. This one has spent four and a half decades getting very, very good at one thing: putting worn irrigation brass back to work.
Built by Jim & Waive.
In 1981, Jim and Waive opened Sprinkler Head Rebuilders in Buhl and built it into something rare: a true rebuild shop, where impact sprinklers and end guns are torn down to the last spring and put back together right. Farmers across Idaho's Magic Valley learned that a box of worn heads dropped at 1612 Main Street came back working like new — and word carried a lot farther than the Magic Valley.
From 2011 on, Waive ran the shop herself — the bench, the counter, the phone — and kept the standard exactly where Jim and she had set it. Ask around the valley and you'll hear the same thing: nobody knows irrigation brass like Waive.
The shop opens
Jim and Waive start rebuilding brass impact sprinklers and end guns for the farmers of the Magic Valley.
Waive carries it
Waive runs the shop solo for fifteen years — same bench, same standards, same phone number.
The next chapter
The Cowdens — a local family — take up the bench, trained on the same units, committed to the same work.
Local hands.
Same standards.
Jenny and Cody Cowden aren't a corporate buyer from out of state — they're a local family who saw what Jim and Waive built and wanted to keep it in the valley, doing exactly what it's always done. The shop is where it's always been. The phone number hasn't changed. The work is held to the standard that made the name.
- Same shop — 1612 Main St., Buhl, since the beginning.
- Same phone — (208) 543-6633, answered by people who do the work.
- Same craft — tear down, machine, rebuild, test. No shortcuts.
