Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Horseshoe Bend, AR

If you are raising a low pad or firming up wet ground before anything gets built on it, gravel and aggregate delivery in Horseshoe Bend, AR starts with the right fill. Arkansas Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton or yard and delivers it to your site.

On the Ozark Plateaus side of the state, that ground is cherty clay loam over limestone and dolostone, with rock close to the surface on side slopes. SB-2 base is the Arkansas base material that goes on top once the grade is where you want it.

Delivery to Horseshoe Bend and the Surrounding Area

You order online, pick your quantity by the ton or by the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you commit.

A dump truck tips the material in one pile at the delivery point. From there it is your site and your equipment.

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers across Horseshoe Bend and the rest of Izard County, including Melbourne, Calico Rock, Oxford, Mount Pleasant and Franklin.

Materials for Horseshoe Bend Projects

Raising grade and building a pad comes before any surface material. Fill dirt is the bulk layer that lifts low ground and builds a pad up out of the wet.

SB-2 base then goes over it as the compacted course that carries a drive, a parking pad or a shed floor.

SB-2 base is a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller. Cities and engineers write the same material into street, sidewalk and parking standards as Class 7 base.

When you are building to a written spec, that is the name to use for it.

For a driveway, SB-2 base is the structural layer and driveway gravel is the surface on top of it. A garden path or side yard wants a finer, walkable surface, which is what walkway gravel is for.

Where a finer dense-graded material that binds and compacts is wanted instead, crusher run is the tighter option.

Drainage is its own decision. #57 Limestone is a washed stone with no fines, used in French drains, foundation and pipe drainage and as a clean top over a compacted base.

3/4" Crushed Stone is the same idea at a smaller size, for drainage beds and construction entrances.

Bedding and finishing materials round out a pad or patio job. Screenings, the Arkansas trade name for crusher fines, bed pavers, flagstone and brick and fill the joints.

Washed Sand handles bedding and leveling under slabs and pools.

Ground and Conditions in Horseshoe Bend

The soil across the Ozark Plateaus is cherty, acid clay loam sitting over limestone and dolostone, with chert gravel running right through the profile. On side slopes, rock and rubble sit close to the surface.

A pad that is under-built on ground like that moves, because there is not enough material between the surface and the rock.

Water here leaves through the rock rather than across it. Sinkholes, fractured limestone and losing streams take runoff underground fast, and this is karst country under the plateau tops.

The residual clay filling the joints still holds water at the surface after a long rain, so a pad can sit wet long after the storm has passed.

That is the argument for building the grade up with fill and a proper SB-2 base rather than skimming a surface over native ground.

Steep hollow slopes and flashy streams scour drive shoulders and culvert outlets when spring rain comes hard, so drainage stone belongs at the outlet, not just at the top of the run.

Base, drive and patio work runs almost all year here. Winter cold snaps and a wet spring are the interruptions, and the late-summer dry spell is the easiest window to get real compaction.

This is the coldest corner of Arkansas, and freeze-thaw lifts loose gravel and heaves unbound surfaces before spring. No frost figure is published for Horseshoe Bend, so confirm the local one before footings go in.

Order SB-2 Base and Fill for Your Horseshoe Bend Project

SB-2 base is the Arkansas material that ties a fill pad, a driveway and a parking area together, and it is the one to build your grade around. Order SB-2 base, fill dirt, drainage stone or bedding sand online and have it delivered to your site in Horseshoe Bend.