On Call Waterproofing

What happens to a steep gravel driveway following heavy rains and deep snow? Staggeringly deep ruts that can bury a small car like mine, and which make getting home virtually impossible without 4WD, AWD or a winch.
What makes it worse — filling the deep ruts with the wrong sized stone. Now my little car struggled to get traction, as if in deep snow — only this was big layer of deep rock.
So a friend had his gravel driveway «treated» and it rode almost as evenly as asphalt. I wanted some of that. And that’s how I came to call Frank at On Call Equipment.
Sure, I could rent the equipment by the hour and do it myself, but why make matters worse? Frank came out, gave me an estimate that didn’t take my breath away, and said he could put me on the schedule sometime next month. Then a few days later, he called to tell me he’d finished a job sooner than expected and asked if i wanted him to come out the next day. Well, yeah.
Watching him work was a thing of beauty (if you can appreciate the «wa» of a man in a machine, reconfiguring your front yard with zen ease). But the true beauty was in the results. Not only did the gravel drive LOOK well-​groomed, it was a dream to drive on. He corrected grading flaws that came with the house (as well as some we made all by ourselves) and piled leftover stones behind the barn. And he did it all in a day.
True test — the flood rains we had last weekend: driveway intact, dry garage, no swamp puddles.
This guy knows what he’s doing.