What is the difference between crushed stone and Natural Pea Gravel?

Crushed stone has angular, broken faces from the crusher, so it interlocks and holds under a compacted base. Pea stone is rounded and smooth, which is why it stays loose underfoot. That makes pea stone the choice for walkways, dog runs and dry wells, and crushed sizes the choice for drainage beds, pipe surround and bases.

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

Either works. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load. Whichever you pick, the number goes on the order and the truck brings that quantity to your site at the date you choose at checkout.

Which stone is best for drainage in Rutland County?

It depends on the drainage job. Curtain drains, footing drains and dry wells take drain rock, which VTrans carries as Drainage Aggregate under 704.16. Pipe surround and drainage beds take 3/4 inch crushed stone. Steep ditches and culvert ends take stone fill, graded by type, with Type I running about 1 inch to 12 inches.

Rutland County, VT Aggregate and Rock Delivery

Looking for gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Rutland County, VT? Vermont Rock Supply sells it in bulk and delivers it by dump truck to your job.

If you are rebuilding a drive, the material you want is staymat, the dense graded crushed base Vermont yards order by that name.

The ground decides the rest. Thin, stony till over schist and gneiss on the slopes leaves boulders and ledge close to the surface, which changes what you can build on and how much stone a base needs.

Delivery Across Rutland County

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

A dump truck then tips the material on site as one pile.

Delivery covers Rutland, Castleton, Brandon, Poultney, Pittsford, Fair Haven, West Rutland, Wallingford, Proctor, Killington, Pawlet, Mount Holly, Danby and Chittenden. The truck tips the load where it lands, so think about where you want that pile before you order.

Plan the date around the ground, not the calendar. In the valley floor towns the ground dries early and gives one of the longer working seasons in Vermont.

The hill towns on either side stay soft several weeks longer through mud season.

Materials Delivered in Rutland County

Staymat is a dense graded crushed base running from about 3/4 inch or 1 inch down to dust, and it locks up tight under a roller.

Vermont specifies base and subbase work through VTrans Standard Specifications for Construction Section 301, Subbase, which draws its materials from Section 704, including Crushed Gravel for Subbase under 704.05 and Dense Graded Crushed Stone for Subbase under 704.06.

Under the staymat, Vermont town road standards ask for a foot or more of bank run gravel. Bank run is gravel taken from a pit or bank and screened rather than crushed, so it goes down as subbase and bulk fill under a thinner crushed top course.

For finer work, Mason Sand handles brick and block work and paver joints, while Washed Sand beds and levels under slabs and flatwork. Paths that want a finer surface than drive gravel take Walkway Gravel.

Ground Conditions Across Rutland County

The county spans two ground regions, and the working season is where the difference shows first. The valley floor dries early and gives one of the longer working seasons in Vermont.

The hill towns stay soft several weeks longer through mud season, and the working season up high is short.

Water comes off the slopes onto the valley floor, and slow-draining till with slate fragments packs tight. Flashy runoff crosses the valley on short steep streams.

On the mountain side, rain and snowmelt run off steep, shallow soils fast, so brooks rise quickly.

That runoff is also the erosion driver. Bank scour follows heavy rain, gully cutting opens in slate-fragment fill, and hillside drainage crossing a road cuts washouts.

Steep-gradient streams scour banks, ditches and culvert outlets, the pattern that did the worst damage in the mountain towns in the August 2011 flooding.

Stone fill lines those ditches and armours culvert inlets and outlets, with Type I running about 1 inch to 12 inches. Winters here bring repeated freeze-thaw and reliable frost heaving in gravel drives each spring.

Frost depth is set by the town, so confirm footing depth with the town office.

Choosing the Right Material

Bennington County spans the Taconics and the Valley of Vermont as well as the Green Mountains, so it shares Rutland County's ground on both sides. The ground is the same, and so is the reasoning about base and drainage.

Windsor County and Addison County each span the Green Mountains too, but each also takes in ground Rutland County does not have. Windsor County touches the Connecticut River Valley and the Vermont Piedmont, where soils and drainage differ from the mountain slopes and the valley floor here.

Addison County reaches into the Champlain Valley, which is its own setting again.

Where the ground here is stony till over schist and gneiss with ledge close to the surface, a crushed base covers what the till cannot. Where the ground is slow-draining till and slate fragments, drainage matters alongside the base.

In the valley floor towns that dry early, you can work sooner in the season than you can up on the slopes.

Order Gravel and Stone for Your Rutland County Job

Vermont Rock Supply delivers staymat, bank run gravel, washed stone, sand, soil and stone fill across Rutland County, from Rutland and Castleton to Brandon, Poultney, Killington and the surrounding towns. Pick your material, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and select a delivery date at checkout.

Place your order online and a truck will tip the load on site.

Rutland County, VT Gravel and Landscape Rock Delivery