Can I order material for a commercial or contractor job?

Yes. Arkansas Rock Supply sells to contractors and homeowners on the same terms, and bulk loads are ordered by the ton or by the yard. Size the quantity on the product page calculator and pick your delivery date at checkout.

When is the best time of year to order base material in Jefferson County?

Work runs all year here, but the ground decides the timing. Wet winter and spring clay ruts deeply under a loaded truck, and saturated gumbo will not compact. Frost is shallow across the Delta, so frost is not the obstacle. The midsummer dry spell, when the clay shrinks and cracks, is the window most base work fits into.

What is the difference between topsoil and fill dirt?

Fill dirt is bulk material for raising low ground and building a pad up out of the wet before a base course goes on. Topsoil is the screened surface layer for lawns, grading and bed prep over Delta clay. Buyers here usually want it screened. They are not interchangeable: fill goes underneath, topsoil goes on top.

Jefferson County, AR Aggregate and Rock Delivery

Arkansas Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Jefferson County, AR for two kinds of buyers: contractors building drives, pads and drainage, and homeowners fixing a muddy lane or a washed-out bed. Both end up asking about the same material first.

That material is SB-2 base, the dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in. It locks up under a roller, and it is what most of this county's driveways and building pads sit on.

Materials Delivered in Jefferson County

SB-2 base is the starting point for anything that carries weight here. It goes down under driveways, parking pads, shed and building pads and pipe bedding.

Arkansas cities and counties write the same stone into their street, sidewalk and parking standards as Class 7 base. If you are working to a written spec, that is the name on the sheet.

Under SB-2 you find the washed and decorative materials. Each one does a different job.

On the soft side, Top Soil comes screened for lawns and bed prep, and Fill Dirt builds low ground up before any base course goes on.

For beds and tree rings, Shredded Mulch holds moisture through summer and keeps bare soil from washing in a thunderstorm.

Choosing the Right Material

Jefferson County sits on the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, where the ground runs to deep alluvial silt loam, silty clay and the heavy gumbo the Delta is known for. That clay barely takes water.

Pulaski County is different. It spans the Central Arkansas fall line as well as the alluvial plain, so part of it is rockier and better drained than anything you will dig here.

On that ground a base course can be thinner and still hold.

On Jefferson County clay it cannot. A thin base over gumbo pumps, ruts and loses its shape the first wet winter, so the base carries the load and the drainage layer moves the water away.

Grant and Cleveland counties sit in the Timberlands, on West Gulf Coastal Plain ground: deep, acid sandy loam and sandy clay over unconsolidated sand, gravel, clay, chalk and marl. Sand drains faster than Delta clay, so water moves off a base there instead of sitting in it.

Ground Conditions Across Jefferson County

The failure you see on Delta clay starts with water that has nowhere to go. Ground here is flat, the water table is high, and rain stands where it falls.

Field ditches and bayous drain slowly, and backwater can hold water for days. A drive built straight on that clay breaks down from below, not from the traffic on top.

So the base carries the load and a washed layer handles the water. #57 Limestone and Drain Rock are the open, no-fines stones for foundation drains, French drains and downspout runs.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Bare cropland silt sheets off in a storm, ditch and bayou banks slough, and river banks cave where the current works at them.

RipRap armors those banks and slope faces.

Work runs all year here. Wet winter and spring ground is the real constraint, since saturated clay ruts deeply under a loaded truck with no frost involved.

Frost is shallow across the Delta, and no single frost figure covers the county. The midsummer dry spell, when the clay shrinks and cracks, is the best window for base work.

Delivery Across Jefferson County

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load in one pile on site.

Each product page has a calculator if you are unsure how much to order. Sizing the load there beats guessing.

Bulk delivery covers Pine Bluff, White Hall, Redfield, Altheimer, Wabbaseka, Sherrill, Tucker and Jefferson, along with the rural roads between them.

If you are working to a written standard, order SB-2 Base under its Class 7 name. For a finer dense-graded material that binds and compacts, Crusher Run is the alternative Arkansas yards keep on hand.

Size Your Load and Place an Order

Start with the calculator on the product page for whatever you need, whether that is SB-2 base, washed stone, sand or topsoil, and let it size the load by the ton or the yard. Then choose your delivery date at checkout and a truck will tip it on site.

Order bulk gravel, stone and aggregate for delivery across Jefferson County.

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