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G arry Boyce is a construction lif- er. He got his start as a laborer at his father's company, while also greasing equipment. Eventually he got to run some of that equip- ment, creating a passion he remem- bers loving to come home to every day as a child. "I couldn't wait to get off the bus at 13 or 14 years old and run up to the gravel bank and run those load- ers," Boyce recalls. "When I got in trouble as a kid they'd take my keys away from the equipment. That's how I got punished." Boyce kept working his way up in the company from operator to foreman to vice president and then to president before buying the whole thing from his father in 2005. Started by his great-grandfather as a trucking business in 1929 and run by his great-grandmother through the '30s after her husband's sud- den passing, Boyce Excavating now employs as many as 100 and made an estimated $23 million in revenue last year, experiencing a significant growth spurt from its previous year's revenues of $14 million. "It's not often that you Google a construction company that has been in business for more than 80 years," company vice president Brian Cutler says. Cutler joined Boyce after leaving a career at IBM. "Garry didn't know much about the office end of it, the bookkeeping. I had an accounting degree. I kind of reversed things." But Cutler didn't simply jump into the office as VP. He says he wanted EquipmentWorld.com | April 2017 63 contractor of the year | by Wayne Grayson | WayneGrayson@randallreilly.com Garry Boyce, Boyce Excavating Co. City, State: Slate Hill, New York Year Started: 1929 Number of employees: 100 Annual revenue: $23 million Markets served: full-scale site work packages, paving, clearing trees, earth- moving, installing utilities and installing concrete curbs, side- walks, landscaping, demolition Large fleet, ear for employees keep Boyce Excavating going strong for 80 years