The Yardboy, Ron Wilson chats with Gary 11/15/2025

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
One of the things I'm going to interject here before
we bring Ron Wilson and is on that irrigation system
on winter rising it. There's a lot to know on that,
but you've got to get a compressor air to blow
all that out, and you blow that water out, so
it's just a miss. But the pressure settings are even different.
I mean, you're paying for somebody's knowledge in the equipment.

(00:23):
If it's a PBC system, it's like fifty psi, polysystems
like forty. And then there's drip zones, which Ron can
talk about that's twenty psi. Soo in knowing where to
insert the compressor, which is near the backflow and all
that leaving the valves half open, there's a little bit
to know about that. You can certainly google that and

(00:45):
get the step by step process, but you got to
have the equipment too, all right, Mister Wilson is joining us.
He always helps us with the outside of our home,
the bushes, the trees, the lawn, the garden, all kinds
of things. And it looks like things are starting kind
of shut down. Mister Wilson.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yes, sir, h and I wouldn't tackle blowed out my
own irrigation system.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Well, yeah, I get it. I'm all about saving money.
I mean, I get it, that two bucks. But if
you don't know what you're doing, blow those heads off.
If you don't, you know, blow that water out of there,
the freezing and the cracking. I mean, you're protecting a
sizable investment by having that maintained professionally. If you want

(01:31):
to do it yourself, you've got to have to learn
about how to do it, and there is certainly some
risk if you don't know how to use a compressor
or word. I mean there's there's like everything else, there's
a you got to know what you're doing before you
tackle it yourself. So you got some research to do.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I think it's yeah, I agree, yeah, forget I
mean it's I would learn about that's kind of stuff.
I learned about it so I know how to do
it if I had to otherwise.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Can you learn about it? And you say, hmm, that's
not for me.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
That's just not that's way. I say, can you come
and out my irrigation.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I don't really want to blow all the heads off
my irrigation system. I don't want to screw up the
irrigation controller. I don't want to mess up the valves.
I don't want the copper pipe on the back floor
to freeze and split.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
I mean, you know, do people still pour ana freeze
in your toilets.

Speaker 1 (02:26):
Well when they take off to go somewhere. Yeah, a
lot of times they do. And it's not necessarily. I mean,
I wouldn't do the ana freeze, but there's like.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
They used to do that. Yeah, I said, that's sarcastically.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Yeah, no they did. Sure, you know what the best
thing to do really, and it's not that they do
it to keep the water from freezing. They do it
to keep it from evaporating.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Poor oil something then mineral oil, mineral oil.

Speaker 3 (02:51):
All it takes is geez, I don't know, four ouncils,
take a little splash or two of it, put it
in a toilet. Some people would wrap saran wrap on
top of it, because if that toilet water evaporates when
you're out of town and it evaporates out of that trap,
it's a direct line to the sewer, which allows sewer
guests in your home. And if you're gonna be a

(03:12):
snowbird and be gone three months and your house is
real dry, that's a that's certainly a risk. So yeah,
winterizing your home, that's a that's a whole subject. That's
a good, good subject too, you know, winterizing your home.
A lot of people there too, don't really know where
the rules should be. And all of a sudden somebody goes,

(03:33):
I'm gonna save me a lot of money. I'm gonna
put that house at forty five degrees too cold you
want to keep it. I wouldn't really go below fifty eight,
to be honest with you.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
See, I always say I think he use some reason.
During the week. We went out of town last Saturday Sunday,
and I went downstairs, and I first I turned off
the water, because if I'm gonna be gone more than
three or four days, I turn off the water. Not
a bad idea. I turn off the heat water heater, so,
you know, because the water's turned off obviously, right. I

(04:04):
do open once. I don't know why, but I always
up one spickett just to drain the water out of
the pipes. Sure, and the basically.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
You can drain two too. Really, you do the highest faucet,
you know, maybe upstairs, and then the lowest do the
lowest one and downstairs and yeah, and then you got
some air, just drains faster. Yeah, that's the main reason.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Yep. And then the and then the thermostat at about sixty. Yeah,
that's plenty fifty eight something like that.

Speaker 1 (04:28):
That's a really good spot. That's the sweets.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
And the only reason I do that is because I
learned that from Gary Carlevin.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (04:35):
I try to teach you everything you know.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Well in home improvement anyway.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah, when are you gonna get over here?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
All about easy? I was at my uncles this week
in North Carolina and they're they're at the same situation
that we're in as far as leaf color and leaf droppage,
and they were just raining leafs. Oh my gosh, I
mean this is the latest he said, ever. And he's
got ten acres and it's wooded, and they were everywhere.
And he just looked at that and said, I'm calling somebody.

(05:04):
I'm not tacking.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
Is that well, you're gonna go out and break ten
acres of woods? No?

Speaker 2 (05:09):
He usually blows out around the house, you know, and
around the yard there close by, and the drive that
looks a long driveway. Yeah, so he blows those all
off and then try to get it away as much
as he can back into the woods. But uh man,
he had a ton of them.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
You know, there's people that are very fickle with leaves.
You know, they're like, I got to get rid of them, right,
I got to get rid of them every day, I
got to get rid of them. I'm yeah, okay. So,
so here's the thing. If you do it and your
neighbor doesn't and you stay on top of it, you're
never going to get them all off right, because it's

(05:43):
windy and it's going to blow around. So if you
go into winter, say the first of December, and you know,
you get a windy day and you know, it's not
like there's you know, two inches of leaves all over
your ground, but there's leaves all ground that doesn't hurt anything.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
Does no.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
If they're just scattered here and there, and those are
going to continue to blow. They're frozen there or they
could be and depending on the weather, but they're going
to continue to blow as well. So no, there is
a point where you've done everything you can to collect
up your leaves, and that's you know, that's what you do. Yeah,
I'm sure there's exceptions to the rule occasionally, but yeah,
you just let the mother nature take care from that

(06:21):
point on. But again, we've got this big push to
leave the leaves. And I get it, you know, as
far as the wildlife and overwinnering of a lot of
critters out there. But you can leave the leaves everywhere,
but don't leave the leaves on the lawn. And if
even if your lawn right now has probably stopped growing,
you're probably not mowing, but the leaves are still falling.
You keep mowing, right, so you're not mowing grass anymore.

(06:45):
Mowing those leaves, yep. And whether you're chopping them up,
putting them back into the turf, for chopping them up
and putting them in the compost pile, or for mult
or whatever may be, keep after the leaves, but don't
let them lay on the lawn.

Speaker 1 (06:56):
Yeah, I got the thing. Always just to talk about
winterizing your mond. But don't even do that till little
bit that yet middle of December.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Man, you got it.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah, all right, mister Wilson, thank you very much. All right,
very good.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
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