Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Mackinaw, IL

Illinois Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Mackinaw, IL, and the first question is usually how much to order. Each product page has a calculator, and quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard.

Then you pick the material.

CA-6, also called road base, is the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in that most base work around Mackinaw starts from. This is flat Grand Prairie country, so what you put down has to shed water on ground that has almost nowhere to send it.

Delivery to Mackinaw and the Surrounding Area

Delivery is set up online. You choose the material, 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.

Mackinaw sits in Tazewell County, and delivery covers the town and the surrounding area. That includes Pekin, East Peoria, Groveland, Morton and Washington.

The truck tips the pile where it lands, so it helps to have the spot cleared before the truck arrives.

Bulk loads are heavy and the ground here is slow to dry in a wet spring. A firm, dry approach off the road keeps the truck from cutting ruts on the way in.

Materials for Mackinaw Projects

This is decorative rock country as much as it is driveway country. Beds, borders, dry creek beds and ground cover are a big part of what goes out to Mackinaw yards, and rounded stone is what those projects call for.

Start with the project. A driveway gets a compacted base and a surface course.

A patio gets a bedding layer and a joint material. A drain gets clean washed stone with no fines in it at all.

River gravel and large river rock round out the bed and dry creek work, and both are washed and screened. 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is the smaller rounded option for walkways and play areas.

When the project needs a base under it, that is CA-6. It packs down hard because the fines stay in the mix, which is what makes it a base rather than a drainage stone.

For anything that has to move water, the clean stone goes in. CA-7 is 1 inch washed stone with no fines, for bedding pipe, drainage runs and French drains.

3/4" Crushed Stone is the CA-11 size Illinois yards sell alongside it.

Concrete flatwork and paver bedding work off Lime Screenings, the crushed limestone fines that make up the standard bedding layer here. Washed Sand, which yards around here call torpedo sand, is the coarse washed sand for concrete and leveling.

Ground and Conditions in Mackinaw

Across the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois, the ground is flat to gently rolling Wisconsin Episode till under deep, dark prairie silt loams. Silty lake beds sit in the old slack-water basins.

It is some of the flattest ground in the country.

Beneath that silt loam is dense clay subsoil, and there is almost no natural fall across the plain. Water stands rather than runs after heavy rain, which is why so much of the farmland in this part of the state is tile drained.

That combination is what an under-built base fails on. Silt loam holds water, the clay below it will not take it, and a base course that was never compacted properly moves when the ground heaves.

Bare silt loam also washes. Sheet erosion takes the top off exposed ground, runoff concentrates into gullies, and stream banks scour after heavy rain.

Seeding or covering bare areas after a project keeps that from starting.

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.

Frost heave shows up in gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring, and the local building department sets the footing depth for anything structural.

Questions from Mackinaw Buyers

How much material will my project need?

Each product page has a calculator that takes your project size and the depth you plan to put down, and returns a quantity. You can order by the ton or by the yard.

Have your measurements ready before you start, and the number comes back to you on the page.

Can I order material by the ton for delivery in Mackinaw?

Yes. Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, and you choose a delivery date at checkout.

The truck tips the load on site as one pile. Delivery covers Mackinaw and the surrounding Tazewell County area.

Order CA-6 and Decorative Stone for Mackinaw

CA-6 is the base material that most Mackinaw projects start from, and the decorative stone is what finishes them. Both go out on the same order.

Start with the material you need, size the load on the product page, and place your order online for delivery to Mackinaw.