Jeff O’Risky — Recognized by Equipment World

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I kept saying to myself, ‘I’ve got a nice job and I’m going to throw it all away to buy this bulldozer,’” O’Risky remembers.

He grappled with the idea until a coworker at the General Electric factory in Mt. Vernon, Indiana, told him he was going to buy the excavating company if O’Risky wouldn’t.

O’Risky quit his job the next day and has been busy doing site prep – mostly residential – ever since. As far as the housing market in Evansville is concerned, there is no recession, O’Risky explains.