About the shop
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 sprinklers back to work.
01The legacy
A father, a son, a bench.
In 1981, Jim and his dad, Jerry, 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.
Waive joined the shop in 1996, and from 2011 she ran it herself — the bench, the counter, the phone — and kept the standard exactly where Jim and Jerry set it. Ask around the valley and you'll hear the same thing: nobody knows irrigation brass like Waive.
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1981
The shop opens
Jim and his dad, Jerry, start rebuilding brass impact sprinklers and end guns for the farmers of the Magic Valley.
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1996
Waive joins
Waive takes up the bench alongside Jim and learns the trade unit by unit.
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2011
Waive carries it
Waive runs the shop solo for fifteen years — same bench, same standards, same phone number.
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2026
The next chapter
The Cowdens — a local family — take up the bench, trained on the same units, committed to the same work.
02The standard
Thirty years of Waive.
From 1996 to 2026, Waive was the shop — the hands on the bench, the voice on the phone, the judgment on whether a body was worth rebuilding. Three decades of farmers trusted her word on their water, and she never gave them a reason to stop.
03Today
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 this shop 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.
Photos · original shop logos
— scans to come —
Forty-five years of rebuilt brass. Yours is next.
1612 Main St., Buhl, Idaho 83316