Choctaw driveway repair

This project was one of three different projects I've done so far for this customer/new friend.

The young couple is an Air Force family who lives on several acres in a wonderful little house in the middle of the property.  Their driveway had reached the point where their passenger car could almost not navigate it anymore.

When I arrived, here is what I found. The end of their driveway was constantly under water anytime it rained.  The tin horn was also plugged on both ends.

After a few hours of work, the driveway looked great.

Aside from grading the driveway (the customer was not ready to pay yet for gravel), the most important thing I did was build a swale on the uphill side of the road. Flowing water is terribly damaging so we want to keep it OFF the driveway in as much as possible.

Even after heavy storms, this is what the driveway looked like a few weeks later.  When the customer is ready, it'll make a perfect bed for some good crusher run gravel.

A Sleepy Hollow-esque driveway project

I'm so very proud to have partnered on a recent project with Blueberry Hill Events (http://bbhevents.com/) here in Oklahoma City.  This really is an amazing and unique venue for weddings and parties of all kinds.  The property is simply incredible and it might make you forget you are practically in the heart of the city.

The owner had a clever vision for using an otherwise unusable part of their property.  She wanted a road down a very narrow easement so that guests could meet up with the parking valets, enter the property through a restored barn, and the valet could take their car to a hidden parking area out of site.

We started with this:

And had to quickly spread it evenly about 300ft down this path. The elevation change from top to bottom was about 15ft.

In less than a couple of hours, we had transformed the area into this road through the woods:

The parking area at the bottom of the hill cleverly hides the cars from the wedding area: