Congrats on your new "best friend." I have a drive that is about 1000', all uphill, and all gravel. When it would rain more that 3" at a time, It would wash ruts in the road. I would shovel base rock into 5 gal buckets. Then load 30 buckets on my canoe trailer to repair the ruts. Took about two weeks to repair the road. I told my wife "I'm getting too old for this." We bought a tractor and a box blade.
The day it was delivered, I decided to repair the road. I did it all, and sat on the tractor for a bit thinking, That looks great. Best the road has ever been. I looked at the hour meter.
It took only 1 hour. Two weeks of hard work down to 1 hr on tractor.
Have a good time and be careful. Best Wishes, Larry