Kyle Abbey

Raised on the Land. Built for It.

Kyle Abbey grew up in Chagrin Falls, Ohio — the kind of place where open land is part of the identity. A graduate of Chagrin Falls High School, Kyle spent his childhood not on a couch, but on a seat. His grandmother owned a sprawling horse farm outside town, and by age 12, Kyle was already behind the controls — running tractors, dozers, excavators, and skid steers alongside his dad, who believed early on that the best thing you could do for a kid was put real tools in his hands and let him learn what he loved.

That lesson stuck. By 16, Kyle had turned that passion into a business — operating his own skid steer and taking on jobs for friends, neighbors, and family across the area. What started as a teenager helping people out became a reputation: if you had a land problem, you called Kyle.

He spent his teens and early twenties building on that foundation — literally. Kyle worked alongside his father on the construction of several homes, learning what ground needs to look like before anything is built on it, and where water goes when it has nowhere to drain.

When it came to gravel driveways, Kyle saw the same thing all over Geauga County: owners who had already paid for a load of stone, and watched the potholes come back in the same places by spring. The stone was rarely the problem. The water was. That's why he started GravelBoss: to fix the driveway, and the reason it keeps breaking.

He didn't learn it in a classroom. He learned it on his grandmother's farm, on job sites with his dad, and on the clay and glacial till that Northeast Ohio driveways sit on. When you call GravelBoss, Kyle is the person who answers for the work.