Pea Gravel, Stone and Soil Delivery in Hartland, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Hartland, MN. Start with Class 5 for a drive or a pad.

Around here the ground is tight and nearly flat, so water sits until it finds a way out.

Washed stone gives it that way out. Clean rock under a downspout, in a French drain or in a drywell moves water off a yard instead of holding it.

Materials for Hartland Projects

Water is the job in this part of Freeborn County. Tight till sheds runoff slowly, and a downspout that dumps beside a foundation keeps the ground wet all spring.

Washed stone is the answer, and the size you pick depends on the run.

For a French drain, a drywell or a downspout run, Drainage Rock is the coarse choice. It is usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock here, and the open voids let water move fast.

3/4 Clear Rock is the smaller washed option. Use it for trench backfill, a drainage bed or a construction entrance.

Clear rock means washed with the fines taken out, unlike Class 5, which keeps them.

Foundation rock is the same clean stone under a basement slab and around footing drains. Minnesota homes also use it as the gas-permeable layer beneath a passive radon system.

Where the stone has to bind and hold, switch to a fines-bearing material. Class 5 is the standard Minnesota base course.

It builds driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and road base.

Driveway Gravel tops an existing drive or finishes over a compacted base. In Minnesota that is Class 2, the surfacing class in the same spec, sold as Class 2 granite or as a buff or red limestone.

Finer work takes finer stone. Granite Fines bed pavers, flagstone and patios, and they compact into a firm garden path.

Minnesota granite fines come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St. Cloud belt.

For sand and soil, Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and pavers, and Mason Sand goes into brick and block work and paver joints. Black dirt is what this state calls topsoil, and it is bought screened or pulverized for lawns and sod beds.

Delivery to Hartland and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your delivery date at checkout. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator to size the load.

A dump truck tips the material in one pile at the site. From Hartland that covers Albert Lea, Clarks Grove, Alden, Glenville and Hollandale, all here in Freeborn County.

Ground and Conditions in Hartland

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, so plan a delivery around that window.

Across the Southern and western prairie till, the soil is loamy to clayey and carries shale. Water drains slowly through it, and closed basins hold until they are tiled or dry out.

That matters most at the thaw, when the ground is still full and the first storms arrive. A graded lot sheds sheet and rill erosion fast, so bare ground needs cover before summer.

Freeze-thaw heaving is worst on tight, shale-rich till where water cannot drain before it freezes. Frost depth for the Zone II counties is 3 feet 6 inches, the figure the Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets.

Order Class 5, Washed Stone and Soil in Hartland

Minnesota Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, washed stone, sand and soil across Hartland and Freeborn County. Pick your material, size the load on the product page and choose a delivery date at checkout.

Place your order online and a truck brings it to your site.