September 7, 2025 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And back at it would go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You are at home with Gary Saliman for twelve minutes
before the top of the hour. I told you we
would talk about all kinds of things you need around
your home, and we just spent a lot of time
talking about coatings removers, because I think it's a very
misunderstood category. Plus, well, there are hosts, and that is
Dumont Global. Joining me now is Ron Greening. What a
(00:24):
great name for the DRAM Corporation. How'd you get that?
Did you work before you were named or do you know?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I think it was just happened.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It just happens. So tell us a little bit about
the Dram Corporation.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, we're a family owned company in Manuswak, Wisconsin. And
the company basically started with mister Draham, who was a
florist and he was looking for something besides his thumb
to put on the end of the garden hose to
water all the flowers that they grew.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
First, I've done that, everybody does.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So he invented the showerhead and started using it in
his greenhouse as a member of the Society of American Floress.
All his buddy said, where'd you get that? I'd like
to get when he said, well, I make them, I'll
sell them to you. American story. So we can claim
that ninety nine percent of all the plant material that
you buy a plant in your yard is somehow now
(01:17):
touched by one of our products in production. So part
of our main business is supplying everything it takes to
grow a plant in a greenhouse except for the greenhouse
and the benches. So people would go to buy their
tomato plants or their marigolds, the plant in their garden
and they would see these tools in use and say, hey,
(01:39):
I want to buy that tool.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It looks like a professional tool.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Thank you. So you're not selling ninety nine cent plastic, No,
we're not, Like, why do people buy those?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So the focus of the company is we can't make
cheap stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
We're gonna make really good Yeah, no kid, And we.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sell the same thing at retail in a do it
Best store that we do sell to the greenhouse and
the nursery men to use eight hours a day to
grow the plants you're going to buy. So it's all
about the quality, it's all about the function. Problems consumers
have when they buy something to go on the end
of their garden hose. They never get to see the
(02:16):
water come out until they get it home and they
put it on the end of the garden hose and
it starts leaking down their elbow and it's una and
it's like, yeah, you know, it's just you know, so
to build a quality item that you can buy and
take home and use, just like the pros do, is.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
What we do well. This year proved one thing to me.
You can do the fertilizers, you can buy good plants,
but you need water. Because, by god, we have had
a lot of rain in the city. I'd live in
the Midwest and it rained a lot, and then somebody
turned the faucet off on the fifteenth of July. And
now it's like, I don't know if it's quite drought
(02:52):
yet where I'm at, but there's droughts and you gotta
water your plants. A friend of mine, he just planted bushes,
said they're not doing very well. I said, water and
he said yes. I said, how much are you water?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
He goes, why water?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
For about fifteen twenty seconds, yeah, he goes, that's enough,
isn't it. I said no. He goes, well, that's what
they told me. And so you knew that, and I'm went, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, and that's a common misconception.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It is, it's very common.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
One of the things that people think about is sprinkling. Right.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So what you have to understand is plants have roots
that are what's called hydrotropic. They follow the water. So
if you water your plants thoroughly and deeply once a day,
the water will soak down into the soil. Now, we've
all been to the beach and played with a bucket
(03:42):
as a kid. When you date on the top of
the beach, it's all dry, right, but you get down
a few yes, and it's cold and wet yea. So
you want that to occur in your yard. You want
the water to go deeply in the soil, so the
roots go down there to find it. Then when it
does get hot and dry, the plants don't get stressed
because they still have water.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's a very trip. So now at DRAM, I'm sure
you have all different types of nozzles sprinklers. You know,
we got about five six minutes I'd like to get into.
Do you have different types of nozzles? I do?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You know it's.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Special, right, And that's exactly right. So the original product
of the Dram Corporation. The rain wand is designed to
soak the soil without disturbing the soil and without hurting
the plant. So you can literally put ten gallons a
minute onto a pile without blowing the buds off and
you can still.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
My friend, if he had the right might have been okay.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So what we tell people to do is to take
the nozzle on the end of their hose and put
it in a container like a bucket, and see how
much you're putting on, and then count one, two, three,
and then you go to the plant and you do
your three count or your five count, and now you
know how much water you're putting on the pot. So
our nozzles are designed for the faulty had the wrong nozzle. Yeah,
(05:06):
So we also make LAWD sprinklers and it's the same philosophy.
It's heavy due to metal items that that have a
great pattern, and they evenly water the lawn so that
you don't have those patches that are dried out. A
lot of frustration people have with an irrigation system is
that they're they're not justed right, and all of a
sudden you've got that dry spot in your line.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I get them adjusted every year. But that spot by
the by the street is just brown every year. So
then and I think it's just solid clay. I'm not
so sure it's the sprinklers this fault. It would have
to be on for like sixty minutes, I say, And
we make.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Spot sprinklers that are little squares or whatever, and they
cover that spot. So it's you know, the idea of
that is to have the right tool to put the
water where you need it instead of just throwing it
around and wasting it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So maybe this is thank you. I keep hitting it.
So the age old question, I'm sure is it better
to have? And back and forth. Is that oscillating or
is it?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You know, there's the olaying sprinkler, there's the impulse Sprinkler's
a lot of way to put water out, and part
of it is what space are you watering? If you've
got broad acreage, the impulse sprinkler that you see is
probably the best because hours goes about seventy feet in diameter.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You go past.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Irrigrated crop field like they do out west where the
waters they've got these large impulse sprinklers that are several
inches in diameter.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And they just put volumes out, So that's an efficient way.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
The oslaying sprinkler that goes back and forth that we
have probably all ran through as kids. It's great for
a large rectangular area. But then you get to the
front yard and there's the driveway and the sidewalk and
it's a little square space. You need a spot sprinkler
so you're not watering the driveway and the sidewalk and
it's all running down the rain sewer.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So so at different it's a lot of sense and
you got adjust your time. How much water does a
lot need?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
They tell you that you want to put an inch
of water like an inch of rain, And a really
easy way to measure that is you know, take an
old tun can and set it out in the end
and wait until it fills up, and then you know
you've got that inch rain.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But it's all about understanding.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Or you can like put your glass out there and
sit in the launch air and watch it fill up.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's been hot enough, I'd feel pretty good sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But you know, people talk.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
About the efficient use of water and about not wasting water,
and part of that is understanding how much you're using
because when you turn on the garden hose, you really
have no idea what's.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Coming out there.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So those soaker hoses are nice for vegetation around the landscape.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And again, if you're in a windy area and you're
using a sprinkler to throw the water up in the air,
it blows away and it doesn't go where you're going.
Or if you're in an arid area where the humidity
is very low and you're using a sprinkler, it evaporates.
So socer hose is a really good efficient tool to
again soak the soil so that those roots go down
(08:03):
where the water stays.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So Drama is a family owned business. We are, and
we're in kind of a family owned place to do it.
Best stores a lot of those are, most of them
are all family owned.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Where do we get DRAM products? You can buy them
at any local hardware store. We're not in the major
retailers because we make good stuff and it's not cheap,
especially so on an independent retailer, garden center, hardware store
in your town will have it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, it's very appropriate that your last name is mister Greeney,
so I appreciate you coming by.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
All right, We're going to take a break. We're gonna
wrap up this hour. In the next two hours, they're
gonna be along the same line. We're gonna find some
innovative products that you might be interested in and kind
of tell you the viewpoints of those particular products as
we continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan. Time to
(09:14):
get your hands dirty with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Give him a call at what eight hundred and eighty
two three talk.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You're at home with Gary Sullivant,
And back at it would go.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
You are at home with Gary Saliman for twelve minutes
before the top of the hour. I told you we
would talk about all kinds of things you need around
your home, and we just spent a lot of time
talking about coatings removers, because I think it's a very
misunderstood category. Plus, well, there are hosts, and that is
Dumont Global. Joining me now is Ron Greening. What a
(00:24):
great name for the DRAM Corporation. How'd you get that?
Did you work before you were named or do you know?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
I think it was just happened.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
It just happens. So tell us a little bit about
the Dram Corporation.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Well, we're a family owned company in Manuswak, Wisconsin. And
the company basically started with mister Draham, who was a
florist and he was looking for something besides his thumb
to put on the end of the garden hose to
water all the flowers that they grew.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
First, I've done that, everybody does.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
So he invented the showerhead and started using it in
his greenhouse as a member of the Society of American Floress.
All his buddy said, where'd you get that? I'd like
to get when he said, well, I make them, I'll
sell them to you. American story. So we can claim
that ninety nine percent of all the plant material that
you buy a plant in your yard is somehow now
(01:17):
touched by one of our products in production. So part
of our main business is supplying everything it takes to
grow a plant in a greenhouse except for the greenhouse
and the benches. So people would go to buy their
tomato plants or their marigolds, the plant in their garden
and they would see these tools in use and say, hey,
(01:39):
I want to buy that tool.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
It looks like a professional tool.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Thank you. So you're not selling ninety nine cent plastic, No,
we're not, Like, why do people buy those?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
So the focus of the company is we can't make
cheap stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
We're gonna make really good Yeah, no kid, And we.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sell the same thing at retail in a do it
Best store that we do sell to the greenhouse and
the nursery men to use eight hours a day to
grow the plants you're going to buy. So it's all
about the quality, it's all about the function. Problems consumers
have when they buy something to go on the end
of their garden hose. They never get to see the
(02:16):
water come out until they get it home and they
put it on the end of the garden hose and
it starts leaking down their elbow and it's una and
it's like, yeah, you know, it's just you know, so
to build a quality item that you can buy and
take home and use, just like the pros do, is.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
What we do well. This year proved one thing to me.
You can do the fertilizers, you can buy good plants,
but you need water. Because, by god, we have had
a lot of rain in the city. I'd live in
the Midwest and it rained a lot, and then somebody
turned the faucet off on the fifteenth of July. And
now it's like, I don't know if it's quite drought
(02:52):
yet where I'm at, but there's droughts and you gotta
water your plants. A friend of mine, he just planted bushes,
said they're not doing very well. I said, water and
he said yes. I said, how much are you water?
Speaker 1 (03:02):
He goes, why water?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
For about fifteen twenty seconds, yeah, he goes, that's enough,
isn't it. I said no. He goes, well, that's what
they told me. And so you knew that, and I'm went, yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well, and that's a common misconception.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
It is, it's very common.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
One of the things that people think about is sprinkling. Right.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So what you have to understand is plants have roots
that are what's called hydrotropic. They follow the water. So
if you water your plants thoroughly and deeply once a day,
the water will soak down into the soil. Now, we've
all been to the beach and played with a bucket
(03:42):
as a kid. When you date on the top of
the beach, it's all dry, right, but you get down
a few yes, and it's cold and wet yea. So
you want that to occur in your yard. You want
the water to go deeply in the soil, so the
roots go down there to find it. Then when it
does get hot and dry, the plants don't get stressed
because they still have water.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It's a very trip. So now at DRAM, I'm sure
you have all different types of nozzles sprinklers. You know,
we got about five six minutes I'd like to get into.
Do you have different types of nozzles? I do?
Speaker 1 (04:18):
You know it's.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Special, right, And that's exactly right. So the original product
of the Dram Corporation. The rain wand is designed to
soak the soil without disturbing the soil and without hurting
the plant. So you can literally put ten gallons a
minute onto a pile without blowing the buds off and
you can still.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
My friend, if he had the right might have been okay.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
So what we tell people to do is to take
the nozzle on the end of their hose and put
it in a container like a bucket, and see how
much you're putting on, and then count one, two, three,
and then you go to the plant and you do
your three count or your five count, and now you
know how much water you're putting on the pot. So
our nozzles are designed for the faulty had the wrong nozzle. Yeah,
(05:06):
So we also make LAWD sprinklers and it's the same philosophy.
It's heavy due to metal items that that have a
great pattern, and they evenly water the lawn so that
you don't have those patches that are dried out. A
lot of frustration people have with an irrigation system is
that they're they're not justed right, and all of a
sudden you've got that dry spot in your line.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I get them adjusted every year. But that spot by
the by the street is just brown every year. So
then and I think it's just solid clay. I'm not
so sure it's the sprinklers this fault. It would have
to be on for like sixty minutes, I say, And
we make.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Spot sprinklers that are little squares or whatever, and they
cover that spot. So it's you know, the idea of
that is to have the right tool to put the
water where you need it instead of just throwing it
around and wasting it.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
So maybe this is thank you. I keep hitting it.
So the age old question, I'm sure is it better
to have? And back and forth. Is that oscillating or
is it?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
You know, there's the olaying sprinkler, there's the impulse Sprinkler's
a lot of way to put water out, and part
of it is what space are you watering? If you've
got broad acreage, the impulse sprinkler that you see is
probably the best because hours goes about seventy feet in diameter.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You go past.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Irrigrated crop field like they do out west where the
waters they've got these large impulse sprinklers that are several
inches in diameter.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And they just put volumes out, So that's an efficient way.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
The oslaying sprinkler that goes back and forth that we
have probably all ran through as kids. It's great for
a large rectangular area. But then you get to the
front yard and there's the driveway and the sidewalk and
it's a little square space. You need a spot sprinkler
so you're not watering the driveway and the sidewalk and
it's all running down the rain sewer.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
So so at different it's a lot of sense and
you got adjust your time. How much water does a
lot need?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
They tell you.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
They tell you that you want to put an inch
of water like an inch of rain, And a really
easy way to measure that is you know, take an
old tun can and set it out in the end
and wait until it fills up, and then you know
you've got that inch rain.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
But it's all about understanding.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
Or you can like put your glass out there and
sit in the launch air and watch it fill up.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
It's been hot enough, I'd feel pretty good sometimes.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
But you know, people talk.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
About the efficient use of water and about not wasting water,
and part of that is understanding how much you're using
because when you turn on the garden hose, you really
have no idea what's.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Coming out there.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
So those soaker hoses are nice for vegetation around the landscape.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And again, if you're in a windy area and you're
using a sprinkler to throw the water up in the air,
it blows away and it doesn't go where you're going.
Or if you're in an arid area where the humidity
is very low and you're using a sprinkler, it evaporates.
So socer hose is a really good efficient tool to
again soak the soil so that those roots go down
(08:03):
where the water stays.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
So Drama is a family owned business. We are, and
we're in kind of a family owned place to do it.
Best stores a lot of those are, most of them
are all family owned.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Where do we get DRAM products? You can buy them
at any local hardware store. We're not in the major
retailers because we make good stuff and it's not cheap,
especially so on an independent retailer, garden center, hardware store
in your town will have it.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Well, it's very appropriate that your last name is mister Greeney,
so I appreciate you coming by.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
All right, We're going to take a break. We're gonna
wrap up this hour. In the next two hours, they're
gonna be along the same line. We're gonna find some
innovative products that you might be interested in and kind
of tell you the viewpoints of those particular products as
we continue. You're at home with Gary Sullivan. Time to
(09:14):
get your hands dirty with Gary Sullivan.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Give him a call at what eight hundred and eighty
two three talk.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
You're at home with Gary Sullivant,
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