Crushed Stone, Sand and Gravel in Lowry, MN

If you are planning gravel and aggregate delivery in Lowry, MN, the job usually starts with a drive, a parking pad or a shed base. Minnesota Rock Supply sells Class 5 and the rest of the bulk materials that work takes, ordered online by the ton or the yard.

This is the Central Minnesota moraine and granite belt, so you are working over loam and till with granite close to the surface. Class 5 is the base course that goes down first here.

Materials for Lowry Projects

Class 5 is the standard Minnesota base course. It carries a driveway from the subgrade up, and it is what you build a parking pad, a garage slab base or a roadbed on.

Over a compacted Class 5 course you surface with Driveway Gravel. In Minnesota that means Class 2, a 3/4 inch crushed aggregate with fines, sold as Class 2 granite or as buff or red limestone depending on the quarry.

Where you want the fines left in and a tight, binding surface, Crusher Run does the same job at a 1 inch or 3/4 inch minus size. Minnesota yards sell it by class or by the minus size rather than by that name.

Drainage work takes clean washed stone, and here that is clear rock. 3/4 Clear Rock goes into drainage beds, drive surfacing and trench backfill.

Drainage Rock, usually a 1 1/2 inch clear stone, handles French drains, footing drains and downspout runs.

For bedding and levelling, Washed Sand is also sold as concrete sand and sits under slabs and pavers. Granite Fines, called screenings, bed pavers and flagstone and make a compacted garden path.

Lawns and beds take Top Soil, which Minnesota calls black dirt and sells screened or pulverized. Decorative beds and dry creek beds take Minnesota River Rock.

Ground and Conditions in Lowry

Across the Central Minnesota moraine and granite belt, till holds water and the ground is pocked with lakes, sloughs and closed basins. Low spots pond through the thaw while the sand and gravel terraces along the river valleys drain freely.

That difference decides how a drive performs. On the farmed ground between the lakes, loam over till is the wetter side of the county, and a drive built thin over a wet subgrade is where heaving shows up worst.

Water is the driver on the other side too. Sheet and gully erosion on tilled slopes after heavy summer rain, lakeshore wear from wind and wave, and bank cutting on the rivers all move ground you would rather keep in place.

Base, drive and paver work runs from the thaw into late autumn. Spring load limits go up on Central zone roads in March and come off in late April or early May, so plan the heavy part of the season around that window.

Frost in the Central Minnesota moraine and granite belt reaches 3 feet 6 inches, the depth the Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets for its Zone II counties. That is a footing depth set by the building official, not a target for a gravel base.

Delivery to Lowry and the Surrounding Area

Lowry sits in Pope County, and Minnesota Rock Supply delivers bulk material across the county, including Glenwood, Starbuck, Cyrus, Villard and Farwell. You order online and a dump truck tips the load in one pile on site.

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

Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. A load of Class 5 or clear rock needs firm ground the truck can reach and a place to tip, so the pile lands where you can work from it.

Questions About Ordering in Lowry

Do you supply contractors working in Lowry?

Yes. Minnesota Rock Supply sells to contractors and homeowners alike across Pope County, and the ordering works the same either way.

You choose the material, set the quantity by the ton or the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. Class 5, clear rock, sand and black dirt are all available in bulk for drive, drainage, slab and landscaping work.

Do you deliver Class 5 to Lowry, MN?

Yes. Class 5 is our standard base course and it is delivered in bulk to Lowry and the surrounding Pope County area, including Glenwood, Starbuck, Cyrus, Villard and Farwell.

Order it online by the ton or the yard, size the load with the calculator on the product page, and choose your delivery date at checkout. A dump truck tips it on site.

Order Base, Stone and Soil for Lowry

Drives, parking pads, shed and garage bases, drainage runs, paver bedding, lawns and decorative beds all take material from the same list. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers Class 5, clear rock, sand, black dirt and river rock in bulk to Lowry and across Pope County.

Order online by the ton or the yard, size the load with the calculator, and pick your delivery date at checkout.