Buy #57 Limestone in Des Arc, AR

Gravel and aggregate delivery in Des Arc, AR runs all year, but the ground sets the schedule. Wet winter and spring ground is the real constraint here, and the midsummer dry spell that shrinks and cracks the clay is the best window for base work.

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers bulk material by the ton across Prairie County. SB-2 base is the standard Arkansas base, and it is where a drive, a pad or a parking area starts.

Materials for Des Arc Projects

SB-2 base is the dense graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in. Those fines let it lock up under a roller, which is why it carries driveways, parking pads, shed pads and pipe bedding.

When a job is written to a spec, the same material appears as Class 7 base. Engineers and Arkansas cities write Class 7 into street, sidewalk and parking standards.

Ask for it by that name and you get the material the spec describes.

On top of a compacted base, driveway gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a prepared pad on rural and county-road property. For paths and side yards, walkway gravel gives a finer, walkable surface than a drive takes.

Washed stone handles water. #57 Limestone is the workhorse washed size, used in French drains, foundation and pipe drainage, concrete aggregate and as a clean top over a compacted base.

3/4" Crushed Stone is the same idea with no fines, for drainage beds, construction entrances and drive surfacing.

Sand and soil finish the job. Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and pools, and much of it comes out of the Arkansas and White river sand operations.

Mason Sand goes into brick, block and stone work, paver joints and play sand.

For lawns and beds, Top Soil is screened and spread over cherty upland soil or heavy Delta clay. Garden Soil fills raised beds, vegetable gardens and planting areas.

Ground and Conditions in Des Arc

Across the Mississippi Alluvial Plain the ground is flat, the water table is high, and the clay barely takes water. Rain stands where it falls, and field ditches and bayous drain slowly.

That changes what a base course has to do. On ground that holds water, a drive or pad needs a compacted base that sheds the load instead of pumping it up through the stone.

SB-2 base is built for that job. The fines bind the crushed stone into a tight mat that holds under a truck, which is what saturated clay demands.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Bare cropland silt sheets off in a storm, ditch and bayou banks slough, and mulch in beds keeps bare soil from washing.

Winters here are short and mild, and frost is shallow. Saturated clay is the winter problem, not frost: a loaded truck will rut a drive deeply with no frost involved at all.

Delivery to Des Arc and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives on a dump truck and is tipped in one pile at the delivery point. The driver does not spread or place the load, so have the spot clear and reachable before the truck backs in.

Order online by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout, and you pick a delivery date there.

Des Arc sits in Prairie County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Hazen, De Valls Bluff and Biscoe.

Order Base, Stone and Soil for Your Des Arc Project

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers SB-2 base, washed stone, sand, soil and decorative rock to driveways, pads, drainage work and garden beds in Des Arc. Order online by the ton or by the yard, size the load on the product page, and pick your delivery date at checkout.