Large River Rock and Bulk Aggregates for Plummer, MN

Minnesota Rock Supply offers gravel and aggregate delivery in Plummer, MN, and Class 5 is the base course to start with. It is the standard Minnesota base.

Plummer sits in Red Lake County, on the flat bed of glacial Lake Agassiz, where deep silt and clay settled out in still water. That ground shapes what you order here.

Materials for Plummer Projects

Coarse stone carries the slope, swale and bank work around Plummer. The flat lake plain sheds water slowly, so open, washed stone does the heavy drainage work while finer material handles surfaces and bedding.

Riprap is the heavy option for shoreline, streambank, culvert outlet and slope armouring against ice, wave and spring runoff.

See RipRap.

Large river rock is round washed stone for dry creek beds, heavier decorative work and light shoreline and slope protection. It is a decorative and light-duty stone, not a structural armouring.

See Large River Rock.

Drainage Rock is usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock in Minnesota, used in French drains, drywells, footing and foundation drains, downspout runs and sewer bedding. Clear rock means washed, with the fines taken out.

See Drainage Rock.

3/4 Clear Rock is the washed stone for drainage beds, drive surfacing, construction entrances and trench backfill. It is also the clean rock for under-slab and footing drain work, including the gas-permeable layer beneath the passive radon system Minnesota requires in new homes.

See 3/4 Clear Rock.

Class 5 keeps its fines, so it binds and compacts into a base for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and road base. See Class 5.

Granite fines are the fine bedding material for pavers, flagstone and patios, and for compacted garden paths. Minnesota granite fines come from the Crushed Stone quarried in the St.

Cloud belt. See Granite Fines.

Delivery to Plummer and the Surrounding Area

You order online and a dump truck delivers to your site in Plummer. Choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load.

Pick your delivery date at checkout. The truck tips the load in one pile on arrival, so have the spot clear before it backs in.

Delivery covers Plummer and the rest of Red Lake County, including Red Lake Falls, Oklee and Brooks.

Ground and Conditions in Plummer

Across the Red River Valley and the northern lake plain, base, drive and paver work waits for the thaw and for the clay to dry out. Spring load limits go up on North zone roads from late March into May, and the building season is short at both ends.

The lake plain has almost no fall and a tight clay subgrade underneath, so meltwater and rain sit where they land. That is why drainage stone and a compacted base matter more here than the surface material on top.

Cutbank scour and bank slumping along the Red and its tributaries during the spring rise, plus wind erosion off bare, flat, unsheltered fields, are the erosion patterns this ground produces. Coarse stone at outlets and along exposed banks is the practical answer.

Winters here are among the coldest in the state, with frost driven deep into clay that holds water and heaves hard as it thaws. The Minnesota Residential Code footing table sets a frost depth of 5 feet (60 inches) for its Zone I counties.

That figure is a footing depth, not a gravel base depth.

Order Bulk Aggregates for Plummer

Minnesota Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil to Plummer and the surrounding part of Red Lake County. Class 5, riprap, drainage rock and granite fines are all available to order online.

Choose your material, set your quantity and pick a delivery date at checkout.