Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in Morrison County, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Morrison County, MN. Class 5 is the base material most Minnesota work starts from, and it is sold here under that name.

Class 5 is the standard base course for driveways, parking pads, shed bases and road base. Order it online and a dump truck tips the load on site.

Materials delivered in Morrison County

Start with the job, then pick the material. A driveway, a patio and a drain each call for a different stone.

For driveways and pads

Class 5 is the Minnesota base course.

Class 5 carries a driveway, a parking pad, a shed base or a garage base. It is also what goes down under a new drive before anything finer.

Driveway Gravel tops an existing drive or finishes over a compacted base. Class 2 is the surfacing class in Spec 3138, a tighter 3/4 inch crushed aggregate with fines.

Crusher Run is crushed rock with the fines left in, for base and drives that need to bind and compact. Minnesota yards more often sell this by class or by a minus size than by the name crusher run.

For patios, pavers and paths

Granite Fines bed pavers, flagstone and patio work, and compact garden paths. Minnesota granite fines come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St.

Cloud belt.

Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and pavers, and is also sold as concrete sand. Mason Sand goes into brick and block work, paver joints and sandboxes.

Walkway Gravel gives garden paths a finer surface that compacts underfoot.

For drainage and clean stone

3/4 Clear Rock is washed with the fines taken out, unlike Class 5, which keeps them. It suits drainage beds, drive surfacing, construction entrances and trench backfill.

The same clean stone acts as foundation rock under basement slabs and around footing drains, including the gas-permeable layer beneath the passive radon system Minnesota requires in new homes. Drainage Rock, usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock here, handles French drains, drywells and downspout runs.

RipRap armours shorelines, streambanks, culvert outlets and slopes against ice, wave and spring runoff.

Ground conditions across Morrison County

Morrison County sits in north central lakes, moraine and outwash country. The ground runs from sandy outwash plains to heavy moraine till, with peat and muck in the low spots.

Sand and gravel ground takes water fast, so an under-built base fails from below. Moraine till between the lakes does not drain the same way, and a base over tight till holds water instead of shedding it.

Lake and wetland margins sit close under the water table. Snowmelt moves the most water of the year, and the spring thaw is when weak ground shows itself.

Shoreline erosion comes from wind, wave and boat wake, plus spring bank cutting. RipRap and clean stone protect a slope that water is already working on.

Base, drive and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late autumn. Spring load limits go up on North and North-Central zone roads from March into May, and frozen ground stops compaction through the winter.

Deep frost every winter is worst where a sandy surface sits over tight till or a high water table and the water has nowhere to go as it freezes.

Delivery across Morrison County

You order online and choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout.

Pick a delivery date at checkout and a dump truck tips the load in one pile on site. That covers Little Falls, Pierz, Royalton, Cushing, Randall, Motley, Upsala, Bowlus, Swanville and Hillman.

Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. The load comes off in a single pile, so pick a spot that works for how you will move it.

Choosing the right material

Benton County and Stearns County share Morrison County's ground region, the moraine and granite belt. The ground is the same, so the base and drainage choices carry over unchanged.

Mille Lacs County is different ground: an east central sand plain over the St. Croix moraine, with peat in the lake basins.

Clean sand and gravel in the outwash means water moves faster there than over Morrison County's till.

On ground like that, a clean open stone such as clear rock or drainage rock carries water away where a fines-bearing base would hold it. Over Morrison County's tight till, the same drainage layer matters more, not less.

Match the material to the job: Class 5 for a base, Class 2 or driveway gravel for a surface, granite fines for bedding, clean stone for water.

Order Class 5 and clean stone for your Morrison County job

Class 5 is the base course most Morrison County ground calls for, from a driveway in Little Falls to a pad in Pierz. Clean stone, granite fines and sand fill in the rest of the job.

Order online by the ton or the yard and a truck tips it on site.