Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Ravenden, AR

If you are building a pad, raising low ground or prepping beds, gravel and aggregate delivery in Ravenden, AR starts with the right material. Arkansas Rock Supply sells bulk stone, sand and soil by the ton or yard.

SB-2 base is the Arkansas name for the dense-graded crushed stone that goes under drives and pads. Topsoil, garden soil and fill dirt handle the grading and planting side of the same job.

Materials for Ravenden Projects

Grading and bed prep come first on most lots here, and that work runs on soil and fill. Topsoil is screened and spread for lawns and bed prep over cherty upland ground.

Garden soil goes into raised beds and vegetable plots where you want a workable mix.

Fill dirt builds a pad up out of the wet before anything else goes down. On a sloped lot, fill levels the building area so a base course has something flat to sit on.

Once grades are set, SB-2 base carries the load. It is a 1 1/2 inch minus crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up under a roller.

Engineers and city standards write the same material as Class 7 base.

Washed stone handles water. #57 limestone is a clean, open-graded size for French drains, foundation drains and pipe bedding.

3/4 inch clean limestone does the same work in a smaller size.

Sand beds and levels. Washed sand goes under slabs and pools, and mason sand beds brick, block and paver joints.

Screenings, also called crusher fines, bed pavers and flagstone and fill the joints between them.

For decorative work, river gravel and Natural Pea Gravel finish beds, borders and dry creek beds. Rip rap armors banks and culvert outlets where moving water is the problem.

Ground and Conditions in Ravenden

Across the Ozark Plateaus, water leaves through the rock rather than across it. Sinkholes, fractured limestone and losing streams take runoff underground fast.

That same water shows up as springs and wet spots lower on the slope.

The soil is cherty, acid clay loam over limestone and dolostone, with chert gravel right through the profile. Rock or rubble sits close to the surface on side slopes.

Digging for a pad turns up stone, not clean dirt.

That clay holds water at the surface after a long rain. A drive or pad built straight on it pumps and rutts, so the base has to carry the load over the soft layer.

SB-2 base is the material that does that here.

Steep hollow slopes and flashy streams scour drive shoulders, culvert outlets and creek banks when heavy spring rain hits. Rip rap and clean stone at those outlets move water without washing out.

Base, drive and patio work runs almost all year. Winter cold snaps and a wet spring are the interruptions.

The late-summer dry spell is the easiest window to get real compaction.

Freezes come in runs from December into February, and shallow freeze-thaw lifts loose gravel and heaves unbound surfaces before spring. Ice storms are a bigger nuisance than deep frost.

The Arkansas residential code has each jurisdiction set its own frost line and requires exterior footings at least 12 inches below undisturbed ground, so confirm the local figure before footings go in.

Delivery to Ravenden and the Surrounding Area

Order online and a dump truck tips your load on site. You choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to help size the load before you check out.

Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. Bulk material comes off the bed in one pile, so pick a spot that keeps the pile out of the way of the work and off any soft ground the truck cannot cross.

Ravenden sits in Lawrence County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Walnut Ridge, Hoxie, Black Rock, Imboden and Strawberry. Pick your delivery date at checkout and the truck brings the load to your site.

Order Base, Stone, Sand and Soil for Your Ravenden Project

Arkansas Rock Supply delivers SB-2 base, washed stone, sand, topsoil, garden soil and fill to drives, pads, drainage runs and garden beds around Ravenden. Pick your material, size the load with the calculator, and place your order online for delivery to your site.