Should I order material by the ton or by the yard?

Both work, and each product page has a calculator. Order by the ton when your quantity is already in weight, and by the yard when you are working from volume. Pick whichever unit your numbers are in and let the calculator handle the rest.

Which stone is best for drainage in Fergus County?

Washed rock is the clean choice for French drains, curtain drains and downspout runs, because the fines are washed out and water moves through it. For a drainage bed or pipe bedding, 3/4 inch crushed stone works. Clay subgrades that soften when they wet up need that clean stone under them.

What do I need to have ready for a bulk delivery?

Have the drop spot clear and reachable, and firm enough to hold a loaded truck. The driver tips the load in one pile, so leave room for it. Order online, choose tons or yards, and pick your delivery date at checkout.

Fergus County Crushed Base Course and Gravel Delivery, MT

Montana Rock Supply brings gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Fergus County, MT to Lewistown, Moore, Denton, Winifred, Roy, Grass Range, Coffee Creek, Forest Grove and Hilger. Order online by the ton or by the yard and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Start with crushed base course, the standard Montana base material. Order it as 3/4 minus and it goes down under drives, shop pads and parking areas.

Ground Conditions Across Fergus County

Fergus County sits on the Central Montana benchlands and island ranges. Deep silty and clayey prairie soils cover the benches, and gravelly terraces run along the Judith and Musselshell.

That clay does the damage. It softens as soon as it wets up, so a thin layer of rock punches straight through under a truck tire.

Spring snowmelt makes it worse. Water runs across ground that is still frozen underneath, and it has nowhere to go.

Heavy summer thunderstorms on open benchland do the same thing in an afternoon. Wind moves the bare farmland soil, and silt and clay slopes gully where runoff concentrates.

The answer is a thicker, better-graded base course over a drainage layer, not a skim coat of rock. Work runs from breakup into autumn, and the benchland dries out quickly once spring runoff is past.

Cold inland winters cut by chinooks freeze the ground hard, then thaw and refreeze it. Gravel roads soften and rut every time it cycles.

Frost depth in Great Falls is commonly figured at about 42 inches, with deeper figures in the ranges; the local building department sets footing depth.

Materials Delivered in Fergus County

Crushed base course is the base material in Montana, and it is specified that way.

The MDT Standard Specifications cover it under Section 701.02.4, where grades are named by nominal top size: Grade 5A at 2 inch minus and Grade 6A at 1 1/2 inch minus, with 7A at 3/4 inch minus developed as pit sources for the larger sizes ran short.

City and county work is more often written against Section 02235, Crushed Base Course, of the Montana Public Works Standard Specifications. County road standards call sizes out the same way, as 3 inch minus sub-base and 1 inch minus crushed base or top course.

For a drive, a shop pad or a shed base, order 3/4 Crushed Base Course as 3/4 minus.

Fill the rest of the list from the same yard. Fill Dirt handles bulk fill and backfill before a base course goes down.

Washed Sand levels and beds flatwork and pavers, and acts as concrete sand. Mason Sand covers brick and block work, paver joints and play sand.

For planting, Garden Soil fills raised beds where native clay or gravel will not do on its own. Shredded Mulch dresses beds and tree rings, and shredded bark holds on slopes and in wind better than nuggets on open ground.

Delivery Across Fergus County

Order online and a dump truck tips the load on site. Choose tons or yards, whichever your numbers are already in.

Each product page has a calculator for sizing the load.

Pick your delivery date at checkout. The truck arrives and tips the material in one pile.

Delivery covers Lewistown, Moore, Denton, Winifred, Roy, Grass Range, Coffee Creek, Forest Grove and Hilger, plus the surrounding benchland and island range country.

Have the drop spot clear and reachable before the truck arrives. A bulk load is heavy, and soft ground after breakup will not hold a truck.

Choosing the Right Material

Fergus County shares its ground with Judith Basin County, Wheatland County and Petroleum County. All three sit on the same Central Montana benchlands and island ranges, with the same deep silty and clayey prairie soils, the same gravelly terraces and the same shallow stony ground on the island ranges.

The ground is the same across all four, so the base and drainage choice does not change at the county line. Pick by the job in front of you.

Order Fergus County Gravel and Base Course Online

Size the load on the product page calculator, then order by the ton or by the yard and pick your delivery date at checkout. Montana Rock Supply delivers crushed base course, road mix, washed rock, sand, topsoil and landscape rock across Fergus County.

Place your order online and a truck brings it to your site.

Crushed Base Course, Sand and Gravel Delivery in Fergus County, MT