Landscaping Material Delivered in Rankin, IL

Water stands on this ground. Gravel and aggregate delivery in Rankin, IL starts with that fact, because the Grand Prairie till plain of central and eastern Illinois is flat, clay-bottomed and slow to shed a heavy rain.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, along with clean washed stone, sand and soil for projects across Vermilion County.

Delivery to Rankin and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard. Each product page carries a calculator if you want to size the load before checkout, and you choose a delivery date there.

A dump truck tips the load on your site in one pile. That is the whole of it, so plan where you want the pile to land before the truck arrives.

Illinois Rock Supply delivers to Rankin and to the rest of Vermilion County, including Danville, Hoopeston, Westville, Georgetown and Tilton.

Materials for Rankin Projects

Start with the decorative work. Beds, borders and dry creek beds need rounded stone that moves water and holds a clean edge, and that is where a landscape order usually begins.

Large River Rock is the heavy rounded stone for dry creek beds, downspout splash areas and the kind of decorative work that has to look settled from day one.

River Gravel covers bed tops, borders and dry creek beds at a smaller size, and it lays down as ground cover where grass will not grow.

3/8" Natural Pea Gravel is the rounded 3/8 inch washed gravel for walkways, play areas and fence post mix.

Under the decorative layer, the base still has to be right. CA-6 is the Illinois base material for driveways, parking pads, shed and garage bases and trench backfill.

For drainage, bedding and concrete flatwork, order clean washed stone with no fines. CA-7 is the 1 inch clean stone for bedding under pipe, drainage trenches and French drains, and 3/4" Crushed Stone is the CA-11 size that Illinois yards sell alongside it.

Bedding layers and finishing work take finer material. Lime Screenings bed pavers and flagstone and backfill around pipe, and CA-16 Chips top a compacted base or bed permeable pavers.

Sand, soil and mulch round out an order. Torpedo sand is the coarse washed sand for concrete, leveling and bedding, mason sand is the fine clean sand for mortar and paver joints, and screened topsoil, garden soil and shredded mulch handle lawns, beds and tree rings.

Ground and Conditions in Rankin

Grand Prairie till plain ground is flat to gently rolling, laid over deep, dark prairie silt loams with dense clay subsoil underneath. Almost no natural fall means water stands rather than runs after heavy rain.

That is why so much farmland here is tile drained, and it is why a base built on this ground has to be built properly the first time. Silt loam over clay punishes an under-built base.

Erosion follows the same pattern. Bare silt loam sheets off in a hard rain, runoff concentrates and gullies where it gathers, and stream banks scour after a wet stretch.

Plan the work between the spring thaw and late fall. The ground is slow to dry in a wet spring and frozen solid through the winter, and repeated freeze and thaw moves gravel drives, walks and shallow slabs each spring.

Order CA-6 and Decorative Stone in Rankin

CA-6 is the base material this part of Illinois builds on, and rounded decorative stone is what finishes the beds and dry creek beds above it. Illinois Rock Supply delivers both to Rankin and across Vermilion County.

Order online by the ton or yard and pick your delivery date at checkout.