“Customizing is our claim to fame - that gives us a niche.”Ī local couple wandered the yard with one parent holding a toddler while the other cradled a newborn. “We’re a third-generation company making sets for the second generation of customers - people whose kids played on our early sets are buying sets for their grandkids now,” Tory Turco said. The company ships all over the world, but both Turcos say their bread-and-butter business is closer to home. “He bought a set and had us ship it to him.” “A prince of Saudi Arabia came in in the early ’80s,” he says, shaking his head. Tory Turco remembers one of his most famous customers from the 1980s driving onto the lot in a limo with an entourage. The customer can select the varnish, but the clear coat really makes the wood grain pop.” “The wood is already pressure treated - it’s really great wood - but we put a cover coat on it. “I spray the stain on the treated wood,” Beaumont explained, his voice muffled by the thick mask. Warren (Beaumont) does the staining, and it takes me about 10 hours to assemble.”īeaumont, who lives in Wilmington, suited up with a respirator mask before he sprayed clear-coat varnish on several pieces of wood. Then we send it to wood finisher who does all the sizing and rounds off the edges before we take it over. “It’s a top-quality wood with no knots and a good grain. “We get our wood from an Amish-run outfit in Pennsylvania,” Torrey Turco said. The father and son team also benefitted from having a solid supply-chain relationship and sufficient stock to take advantage of the boom in backyard play that happened when schools and playgrounds closed in the early days of the pandemic. Families would be all over our lot playing on the structures.”ĬOVID-19 slowed the in-person shopping experience, but the company pivoted to an online retail and ordering model to adapt. “When we moved our operations to Billerica in the ’70s,” Tory Turco said, “we started making the sets by hand. At first, they built the widely used metal sets, before capitalizing on the increasing demand for wooden sets that offered a rust-free look and pinch-free play. That’s how we got into swing sets.”Īnd Sal & Son Swing Senter (with an alliterative “s”) with the slogan, “Swings and Slides are our Pride” was born.
“One day, back in the 1970s, my dad bought a bunch of metal swing sets at a reduced price, and repackaged them. “My dad’s first store, Sal’s Salvage, was in Burlington,” Tory Turco said. It was started by his father, Salvatore Turco, who originally was in the salvage business. His father, Sal “Tory” Turco, said the company has been in business for almost 50 years. “The customers know we build everything custom, so they bring us their ideas and we help them develop the concept.” “We make our sets from scratch,” Turco said as he assembled a customer’s double-tower order. These days, though, instead of playing there, Turco is building the sets. There’s even a picnic table built underneath one of the towers. The structure includes a slide, rock climbing wall, rope ramp, a mini jungle gym under the bridge, two seated swings and a tire swing. In today’s inventory, he favors the double-tower design, in which two 4-by-4 covered towers are connected by a wooden bridge.
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