MEDICAL LAKE – For over 20 years Jeff King has been following his passion and working with tractors, recreational vehicles, utility trailers, and other farm equipment. Over the last five years King has been working to build the foundation to start his own business and was recently able to make this dream a reality.
King has been working at R & R RV in Spokane for much of those 20 years and has set a goal to retire from that job to completely focus on running the home-based business his wife Deborah King said.
The couple has lived in Medical Lake for three years and lived right down the road in Four Lakes prior to that.
Deborah said they have been farming hay in the area for 15 years and have built a consistent customer base from the West Plains up to Deer Park. She said it’s because of the close community relationships they have built through farming that made the expansion into equipment repair a realistic endeavor.
Deborah also said being able to repair equipment will generate another line of service and revenue, which is essential when running a farm.
She said the drought last year impacted the farm’s ability to produce hay, and out of the seven fields they run only one generated a sellable harvest last year. Deborah said they “had to find hay for their customers from farms as far as Davenport, because the farm just didn’t harvest enough to fulfill customer needs.”
Deborah also said over the past couple of seasons prices of different goods and supplies have skyrocketed, meaning the farm needs to bring in more revenue.
She said her husband has become very creative in his repair techniques also, and recently started a project to create a snowplow blade from a recycled tractor tire. He is currently building two of them and hopes to turn the plow blade into a standard service he can offer moving forward.
She said her husband Jeff works with local groups such as 4H to keep the community trailers up to par and working well.
He also makes service calls in emergency situations, and Deborah said he recently made an emergency trip to Wild Rose RV Park near Deer Park to restore power to a resident who lost electricity in their RV during the recent snowstorm. Deborah said they felt the need to help because the “folks needed to have heat to comfortably make it through the cold snap.”
Jeff’s wife said the main goal for this year is to expand the customer base for equipment services, and thinks it is a very realistic goal.
Deborah said the business is open six days a week and can be reached by phone at (509)-359-0250 or (509)-990-1132, and people can also look them up by finding the King Farms and Services page on social media.
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