Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Morris, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Morris, MN, and the work here usually starts with a grade that needs raising. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load before you order.

Class 5 is the base most of this ground ends up needing.

Fill dirt goes down first. Class 5 goes over it.

Everything else follows from the project.

Delivery to Morris and the Surrounding Area

You order online, pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load on your site in one pile.

Morris sits in Stevens County, and delivery covers the surrounding towns, including Hancock, Chokio, Donnelly and Alberta. If your job is outside the city, the same online order works the same way.

Bulk material arrives loose, so have the drop spot clear before the truck backs in. Quantities are set by the ton or the yard, and the calculator on each product page helps you settle on a number.

Materials for Morris Projects

Raising grade is the first job on a lot that sits low or holds water. Fill dirt is the bulk material for that, and it goes down before anything else.

It builds up a building pad, a driveway crown or a yard that needs to come up to grade.

Once the grade is where you want it, Class 5 is the base course that goes over it. Class 5 keeps its fines, so it binds and compacts into a firm surface for a driveway, a parking pad or a shed base.

For a drive that needs a tighter finish, Driveway Gravel is the 3/4 inch crushed surfacing material, sold in Minnesota as Class 2 granite or limestone. It goes over a compacted base as the top layer.

Where a base has to bind hard and stay put, Crusher Run is crushed rock with the fines left in. It works for drives and pads that need to lock up under traffic.

Under a slab or around a footing drain, you want washed stone instead. Drainage Rock is a clean 1 1/2 inch clear rock for French drains, drywells and downspout runs, and it lets water move instead of holding it.

For lawns and beds after the grade is set, Top Soil is the screened black dirt that goes over the finished pad.

Ground and Conditions in Morris

This part of the state sits on gray, calcareous Des Moines lobe till, loamy to clayey and carrying shale brought down from the Dakotas. Under the black prairie soil, that till is tight.

Tight till and almost no fall drain slowly, so water sits where it lands. A base built over ground that stays wet will move, which is why the fill and the base course matter more than the surface material on top.

The hummocky pothole surface over much of this ground leaves low spots that hold water until it drains or evaporates. Filling those spots to a consistent grade is the first step on a lot like that.

Heaving is worst on tight, shale-rich till where water cannot drain away before it freezes. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets 3 feet 6 inches for its Zone II counties, and that figure belongs to those counties, not to Morris.

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, which affects hauling schedules.

Questions About Ordering in Morris

What is the best base under pavers in Morris?

Class 5 is the compacted base course for a paver patio or walkway, because it carries fines and binds into a firm layer. Over that, granite fines bed the pavers themselves.

The granite fines come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St. Cloud belt, and they are sold as screenings or stone screenings.

Both are ordered by the ton or the yard.

Do you supply contractors working in Morris?

Yes. Contractors order the same way anyone else does: online, by the ton or the yard, with a delivery date picked at checkout.

Bulk loads of fill dirt, Class 5, clear rock and sand go to job sites in Morris and across Stevens County, including Hancock, Chokio, Donnelly and Alberta. Each product page has a calculator to help size the load.

Order Class 5 and Fill for Your Morris Job

Class 5 is the base this ground asks for, and fill dirt is what gets your grade there first. Minnesota Rock Supply delivers both, along with clear rock, sand and black dirt, to Morris and the towns around it.

Order online by the ton or the yard and pick your delivery date at checkout.