Gravel and Aggregate Delivery in Tower, MN

Order gravel and aggregate delivery in Tower, MN online from Minnesota Rock Supply. Pick your material, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, set a delivery date, and a dump truck tips the load on your site.

Start with Class 5, the Minnesota base course, for drives, pads and garage bases.

Materials for Tower Projects

Grading and bed prep come first on most northeast Minnesota lots. Thin, stony ground over bedrock leaves you building up grade before you can put anything on top.

Fill dirt raises grade and backfills around foundations. Minnesota yards also call it common borrow, and it goes down before a Class 5 course.

Fill Dirt is the bulk material for bringing a low spot up to level.

Black dirt, which is what this state calls topsoil, finishes the job. Buy it screened or pulverized for lawns and sod beds.

Top Soil spreads over rough grade to give seed and sod something to root into.

For raised beds and planting areas, garden soil blends screened black dirt with compost.

Garden Soil is mixed for vegetables, perennials and shrub beds.

Finish beds with shredded mulch to hold moisture through the dry stretch of a Minnesota summer.

Shredded Mulch covers tree rings and slopes.

Class 5 also carries the name Class 5 gravel or Cl 5. It works as road base, driveway base and a pad under a garage slab.

Yards sell it as Class 2 granite or limestone.

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

3/4 Clear Rock goes into drainage beds, construction entrances and trench backfill.

Drainage Rock, usually a 1 1/2 inch clear rock, runs French drains, drywells and footing drains.

Riprap armours shorelines and culvert outlets against ice, wave action and spring runoff.

RipRap holds streambanks and steep slopes above the water line.

Ground and Conditions in Tower

Water cannot soak into bedrock, so it runs off fast and gathers in the hollows and peat basins across the Iron Range, North Shore and the Superior Upland.

Snowmelt is the heaviest flow of the year here. A drive or pad that sheds that water away from the structure lasts.

Thin, stony till sits over Precambrian bedrock in this part of the state, with rock at or close to the surface. Digging hits ledge sooner than you expect.

That shallow soil over ledge lifts slabs, posts and gravel drives every spring, so base prep matters more than it does on deep ground.

Frozen ground stops compaction from late autumn into April, and spring load limits run into mid-May on North zone roads. Plan grading and base work around that window.

Delivery to Tower and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick your quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator to help you size the load before you check out.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at the address you give. Have the drop spot clear and reachable, with room for the truck to pull in and out.

Minnesota Rock Supply delivers across St. Louis County, including Duluth, Hibbing, Virginia, Chisholm and Eveleth.

Tower sits in the northeast corner of the county.

Order Fill, Topsoil and Stone for Your Tower Project

Minnesota Rock Supply delivers fill dirt, black dirt and garden soil for grading and bed prep in Tower, along with Class 5, washed stone, sand and decorative rock for drives, drainage and landscaping. Choose your material and place your order online, and a truck brings it to your site.