Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Clarkfield, MN

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Clarkfield, MN online from Minnesota Rock Supply. Pick your material, pick your ton or yard, and a truck brings it to your site.

Class 5 is the base most Minnesota yards sell, and it is the one to start with for a drive, a pad or a shed base. From there you add black dirt, sand or clear rock as the job needs.

Materials for Clarkfield Projects

Grading and bed prep start with fill and finish with soil. Bulk fill raises a low lot or backfills around a foundation.

Screened black dirt goes on top for lawns, sod beds and planting beds.

For raised beds and planting areas, garden soil blends screened black dirt with compost. It holds moisture through the dry stretch of a Minnesota summer.

Shredded mulch covers beds and tree rings.

Under all of it sits the base course. Class 5 is the standard Minnesota base.

Use it under drives, parking pads and garage slabs.

Class 2 is the surfacing class in the same spec, a 3/4 inch crushed aggregate with fines. Yards sell it as Class 2 granite, buff limestone or red limestone.

It finishes a drive over a compacted base.

Washed stone handles water. Clear rock has the fines taken out, so it drains where Class 5 will not.

Use it for drainage beds, trench backfill and construction entrances.

Foundation rock is the clean washed rock that goes under basement slabs and around footing drains. Granite fines bed pavers, flagstone and patios.

Natural Pea Gravel fills walkways, play areas and exposed aggregate work.

Ground and Conditions in Clarkfield

Water drives the work here. Snowmelt and early summer thunderstorms are when yards and drives are worst, and across the Southern and western prairie till the ground drains slowly.

Tight till with almost no fall holds water instead of shedding it. Heaving shows up on the tight, shale-rich ground where water cannot drain away before it freezes.

A base that keeps water out of the subgrade lasts longer than one that traps it.

That is the case for clear rock and drain rock in wet spots. Fines-bearing material binds and compacts, but it also holds moisture.

Clean washed stone lets water move.

Bare cropland and graded lots take sheet, rill and gully erosion after heavy storms, and bank cutting follows on the rivers. Riprap armours shorelines, culvert outlets and slopes against ice, wave and spring runoff.

The working season runs long by Minnesota standards, from the thaw into late autumn. Spring load limits go up on South and Central zone roads in early March and come off in April.

Cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets 3 feet 6 inches for its Zone II counties, and that figure is a footing depth, not a gravel depth.

Delivery to Clarkfield and the Surrounding Area

Bulk material arrives by dump truck and tips in one pile. Have the spot clear and reachable before the truck gets there.

The driver does not spread or place the load.

Order online by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you need to size the load.

Pick your delivery date at checkout.

Clarkfield sits in Yellow Medicine County, and delivery covers the surrounding area, including Granite Falls, Canby, Wood Lake, Hanley Falls and Echo.

Questions About Ordering in Clarkfield

Can I order material by the ton for delivery in Clarkfield?

Yes. Every product is ordered online by the ton or by the yard, and the load arrives by dump truck.

Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you check out. Choose your delivery date at checkout and the truck brings the material to your site in Clarkfield.

What stone should I use for drainage in Clarkfield?

Use clean washed stone, not a fines-bearing base. Clear rock is the Minnesota way of saying washed with the fines taken out, and it suits drainage beds, trench backfill and construction entrances.

For French drains, drywells, footing drains and downspout runs, drain rock is usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock.

Order Topsoil, Fill and Stone in Clarkfield

Grading, bed prep, driveways, drainage and shoreline work all start with the right material. Order black dirt, garden soil, fill dirt, Class 5 or clear rock online by the ton or yard.

Minnesota Rock Supply delivers across Clarkfield and Yellow Medicine County.