Oct 9, 2026 · 41 min · 13 segments
Daniel Overton is 25 and already has 8 years in irrigation. He works for Ricci's Landscape Management in northwest Indiana, listens to the podcast, and reached out to me back in July. We've stayed in…
Andy HumphreyHostWhat I've been nerding out on recently is, it's a work-related thing, but I'm very passionate about it as well as irrigation, is building water features.
... setting, setting rock, controlling the flow of water, making things look as natural and kind of replicating nature as much as possible.
So, like, when we're setting the water, what, what would the water do to the rock that, you know, it's going by? So we use, like, a lot of rocks that maybe cantilever over to make it look like the water has actually eroded away at the rock.
And little coves and things like that to make a waterfall that then goes into a self-circulating system.
Kinda making it look like, or it sounds like making it look like it was just naturally there, so to speak.
Yeah, and that's something I don't talk much about, but it's another aspect of, you know, not necessarily the irrigation industry, but it is water, right? It is something that uses water.
It's something that blings, brings pleasure to people, and maybe I should start talking more about water features, something I don't really know some about it, but no expert for sure.
So I think it might be interesting just to kind of learn and understand how you got started in this industry and, you know, maybe when you thought you might want to make it a career.
What I've been nerding out on recently is, it's a work-related thing, but I'm very passionate about it as well as irrigation, is building water features.
... setting, setting rock, controlling the flow of water, making things look as natural and kind of replicating nature as much as possible.
So, like, when we're setting the water, what, what would the water do to the rock that, you know, it's going by? So we use, like, a lot of rocks that maybe cantilever over to make it look like the water has actually eroded away at the rock.
And little coves and things like that to make a waterfall that then goes into a self-circulating system.
Kinda making it look like, or it sounds like making it look like it was just naturally there, so to speak.
Yeah, and that's something I don't talk much about, but it's another aspect of, you know, not necessarily the irrigation industry, but it is water, right? It is something that uses water.
It's something that blings, brings pleasure to people, and maybe I should start talking more about water features, something I don't really know some about it, but no expert for sure.
So I think it might be interesting just to kind of learn and understand how you got started in this industry and, you know, maybe when you thought you might want to make it a career.
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