Kindersley Trailers Celebrates 60 Years
Kindersley Trailers is celebrating 60 years of servicing Kindersley and the surrounding area. It all started on the family farm North East of Eatonia by Nick Boychuck who was an innovator, inventor and all around handyman/mechanic/welder etc. His passion was building and repairing machinery and equipment, as well as helping his fellow farmers and friends.
An uncle once told Sam that when he and his dad were on a trip to Ontario, they saw a piece of farm equipment that Nick thought would be good in our farming area. Nick measured it with his hands and came home and built it! He could often just look at something then figure out how to build it himself.
Building and repairing farm equipment was something that was always needed and necessary. Nick manufactured many things; including a discer, stone picker, shop presses, trailers and harrows drawbars.
After farming with harrows and then packer wheels separately, he eventually designed and manufactured a harrow-packer drawbar which the Saskatchewan Research Council suggested he patent. This patent was later purchased by Flex-Coil. That’s how the repair and manufacturing side of the business started and current owner, Sam Boychuk, had a front-row seat to the growth of the company.
The move from the farm to Kindersley happened in the 1960s when Nick moved from his farm shop to the industrial area in Kindersley. That shop was later sold and Nick built another shop just across the street where Dennis’ Welding currently is. After building his own shops, Nick also started doing buildings in Kindersley for customers. Times good and business was booming. They were so busy that they were falling behind on the manufacturing of trailers & farm equipment, including harrows and packer drawbars.
Sam had moved to Edmonton in 1970 to follow his passion and was taking architecture at NAIT, but decided to come home in 1975 and work with his dad.
Nick retired in the early 80s and let his boys run the manufacturing, repairs and building construction, but not before buying a small RV dealership that was on the North end of Main Street. From there, the RV sales and repair shop moved to the old Shell station which is where the 7-11 is now. When Nick finally retired, Sam moved the RV business back to the shop in the industrial park where they continued the welding, repairing, steel buildings and the RV repairs.
When the opportunity came up to buy the old CCIL building, the welding and repair shop was sold and Sam and his wife Julie moved the trailer sales to the North service road where the Kindersley Castle is now. Industrial trailer sales were added at this time since they were no longer manufacturing their own trailers. Another part that was added to the business was selling and repairing heavy truck parts. They don’t sell heavy truck parts anymore but continue to sell suspension parts for all types of industrial trailers, as well as the RV parts, welding supplies, rentals and repairs.
The name has changed a few times over the last 60 years—Boychuk Manufacturing, Boychuk Trailers, Boychuk Sales & Service and Kindersley Trailers.
Trailer sales and rentals are constant, however, the repair side of the business is always busy. Sixty years is a long time to be in business and Sam and Julie are proud of what they have accomplished and the business they helped build, however, it’s time to pass the torch on to someone younger and eager to take the business to another level. Interested? Give Sam a call.
By Kevin Martin
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