Fill and Base Material Delivered in Hume, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Hume, IL, and it starts with sizing the load. Each product page has a calculator, so you pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard before you check out.

CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone this part of Illinois calls road base, is the material that carries a drive or a building pad. Around Hume the ground is flat prairie silt loam over clay, and that shapes what you put on top of it.

Delivery to Hume and the Surrounding Area

You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck then tips the load in one pile at the site.

Hume sits in Edgar County, and delivery covers the town and the surrounding area. Paris, Chrisman, Kansas, Brocton and Metcalf are all inside the same county and can be worked into the same schedule.

Bulk material arrives as a tipped pile, so it helps to know where you want that pile before the truck gets there. From there you move it with your own equipment.

Materials for Hume Projects

Raising grade and building up a pad is the work this ground asks for. Fill dirt goes down first to bring a low or uneven spot up to level, and CA-6 goes on top of it as the compacted base course.

For a driveway, start with Fill Dirt where the grade is low, then cap it with CA-6. CA-6 is crushed limestone with the fines left in, which is what lets it knit together under a vehicle.

Driveway Gravel is a surfacing option for an existing drive that already has a solid base under it.

For a patio or a paver walk, the bedding layer matters as much as the base. Lime Screenings are the crushed limestone fines used to bed pavers and flagstone, and they also work as backfill around pipe.

Walkway Gravel gives a path a finer, more walkable surface.

For drainage, you want washed stone with no fines in it. CA-7 is one inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone, sold as CA-11, is the 3/4 inch clean stone that goes with it for the same kind of work.

Sand and soil round out a project. Washed Sand, which Illinois yards call torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and bedding.

Top Soil is screened prairie topsoil for lawns and bed prep.

Ground and Conditions in Hume

Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, the ground runs flat to gently rolling over deep, dark prairie silt loams. Underneath that is dense clay subsoil with almost no natural fall.

Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain, which is why so much of the farmland here is tile drained. A base that was never built up properly will hold that water and move under it.

Bare silt loam also washes. Sheet erosion takes the fines off a slope, and concentrated runoff from a field or a yard cuts gullies where it gathers.

A clean stone drainage layer gives that water somewhere to go instead.

Base, driveway and paver work runs from the spring thaw into late fall. The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter, so timing the work to the season matters.

Winters here bring repeated freeze and thaw, and frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring. Frost depth is about 36 inches through most of central and eastern Illinois, though the local building department sets the figure that applies to your job.

Order CA-6 and Base Material for Your Hume Project

CA-6 is the dense graded base this part of Illinois builds on, and it is the material to reach for when you are raising grade or setting up a pad. Size your load on the product page, pick a delivery date, and Illinois Rock Supply will bring it out to your site in Hume.