Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work, and the choice comes down to how you want to think about the load. Stone, gravel and sand are commonly ordered by the ton, while soil, fill and mulch are often easier to picture by the yard. Whichever you pick, the product page calculator helps you size the quantity for your project before you check out.

Which stone is best for drainage in Perry County?

It depends on the job. #57 limestone and 3/4 inch clean limestone are washed sizes with no fines, so water passes through them, and both suit French drains, foundation and pipe drainage and drainage beds. For fine drainage and pipe bedding, 3/8 inch crushed stone or #89 crushed stone fits tighter spaces.

What do I need to have ready for a bulk delivery?

Have the drop spot clear and reachable by a dump truck, with room for the pile. The truck tips the material in one place, so pick a spot that works for how you plan to move it afterward. Order your quantity by the ton or yard, choose a delivery date at checkout, and the load arrives on that date.

Perry County SB-2 Base and Gravel Delivery, AR

If you are building a driveway, setting a patio base or running drainage on a Perry County property, the load starts with gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Perry County, AR. Arkansas Rock Supply delivers bulk material to Perryville, Bigelow, Perry, Houston, Casa and Adona.

SB-2 base is the Arkansas name for the dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone that locks up under a roller. It goes under drives, parking pads, shed and building pads and pipe bedding.

Materials Delivered in Perry County

SB-2 base is the standard base material in this state. It is a dense-graded 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in, so it binds and compacts instead of staying loose.

When a city or county street, sidewalk or parking standard calls out a base course, it is usually written as Class 7 base, which is the same material under the name engineers use.

Section 302 covers select material used as a foundation course underneath.

Use the Class 7 name when you are working to a written spec.

Around those, the yard carries driveway gravel for surfacing an existing drive or topping a compacted base, and walkway gravel for paths and side yards that need a finer surface than a drive. Washed sand beds and levels under slabs and pools, and mason sand goes into brick, block and stone work and paver joints.

Fill dirt raises low ground and builds a pad up out of the wet before a base course goes on.

Choosing the Right Material

Perry County spans two ground regions. Perryville and Casa sit in the Ouachita Mountains, on stony, gravelly loam over folded sandstone, shale, chert and novaculite.

Conway County and Yell County both reach into the Arkansas River Valley, the same deep silt loam and clay over shale and sandstone uplands. On that ground the base and drainage choices are the same ones you would make on the valley side of Perry County.

On the valley clay, a fines-bearing base like SB-2 base is what you want under a drive or pad, because it compacts into a firm layer.

On the mountain ground, where rock sits close to the surface, drainage is the bigger question, and a washed stone such as #57 limestone or drain rock carries water away instead of holding it.

Ground Conditions Across Perry County

In the Ouachita Mountains, tilted shale and chert beds shed water off the ridges quickly and funnel it into narrow valleys. A drive or pad there takes concentrated flow arriving from above rather than the rain that lands on it.

Fast ridge runoff and steep drive cuts strip surfacing after a big storm.

In the Arkansas River Valley, flat bottomland sits over a high water table near the river, and clay subsoils let go of water slowly. Backwater from the Arkansas River and Lake Dardanelle follows heavy rain upstream.

Bank scour and flood flow work on the river and lake edges, and spring thunderstorms sheet erode bare valley clay.

That is where a thin base shows its weakness first. A fines-bearing base that stays wet under traffic softens and pumps, and the surface above it breaks up.

Work runs nearly all year in both zones. In the mountains, winter ice and a wet spring are the limits, and rocky ground that has drained compacts well and holds.

In the valley, a wet late winter and spring is the real limit, and summer heat can dry a surface before it can be rolled.

No statewide frost depth figure is published. The Arkansas residential code has each jurisdiction set the frost line and requires exterior footings at least 12 inches below undisturbed ground.

In the mountains, north-facing slopes hold frost longest and thaw wet, which is when a gravel drive ruts most easily.

Delivery Across Perry County

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

A dump truck then tips the material in one pile on site.

Bulk delivery covers Perryville, Bigelow, Perry, Houston, Casa and Adona, along with rural and county-road properties across the county. Have the drop spot clear and reachable by a truck before the load arrives.

Order SB-2 Base and Stone for Your Perry County Project

Start with the quantity. Each product page has a calculator, and you can order by the ton or by the yard once you know what the job needs.

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers SB-2 base, crushed stone, sand, topsoil and more across Perry County, AR.

Order SB-2 Base and Crushed Stone in Perry County, AR