Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Scales Mound, IL

Illinois Rock Supply brings gravel and aggregate delivery in Scales Mound, IL to driveways, beds and building pads. CA-6, the dense graded crushed limestone with the fines left in, is the base material most of this corner of Jo Daviess County is built on.

In the Driftless and old-drift northwest, soil is thin on the ridges and rock sits close to the surface. That changes how much base a drive or pad needs before it holds up.

Delivery to Scales Mound and the Surrounding Area

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 before you commit.

A dump truck tips your material on site in one pile. Delivery covers Scales Mound and the rest of Jo Daviess County, including Galena, East Dubuque, Stockton, Warren and Hanover.

Steep drives and hillside pads are the loads worth planning around. A truck needs somewhere to tip, and on a narrow ridge road that space may be well above or below the work.

Materials for Scales Mound Projects

Beds, borders and dry creek beds are where decorative stone earns its place here. Rounded stone moves water and covers ground in the same pass.

• River Gravel for beds, borders and dry creek beds, rounded and washed.
• Large River Rock for heavier decorative work and downspout splash areas.
• 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel for walkways, play areas and fence post mix.
• RipRap for bank protection, culvert outlets and slope armoring where the ground drops away.
• Top Soil for lawns, grading and bed prep.

A dry creek bed takes the right stone in the right size. Large River Rock anchors the bed and holds the shape; River Gravel fills between the larger pieces.

Where water leaves a downspout or crosses a slope, RipRap is the heavy broken stone for that job. It handles bank protection and pond edges the way smaller decorative stone cannot.

For a driveway, CA-6 goes down first as the compacted base, then Driveway Gravel surfaces it. For a patio, Lime Screenings bed the pavers.

For a drain, CA-7 is washed clean stone with no fines.

Ground and Conditions in Scales Mound

Across the Driftless and old-drift northwest, the ground is wind-blown loess over dolomite and limestone. Soil is thin on the ridges and rock sits close to the surface on the valley sides.

That is what an under-built base runs into. Where soil is shallow over rock, a drive or pad has little to settle into, so the base course has to carry the load on its own.

Water moves fast here. Steep ground sheds heavy rain into narrow valleys, and springs and seeps come out of the dolomite, so drainage matters as much as base depth.

Loess on a steep slope gullies and rills, cut banks slump and drop rock, and the valley streams scour. RipRap and clean stone both have a place in that work.

Work runs from the spring thaw into late fall. A wet spring is the hard part, when the loess turns greasy and a hillside pad is difficult to build.

Cold winters bring sharp freeze and thaw, and frost works harder on thin soils over rock and on cut slopes. Frost depth in northern Illinois runs about 42 inches, and the local building department sets it.

Order CA-6 and Decorative Stone for Scales Mound

CA-6 is the base this area builds on, with decorative stone for the beds and banks around it. Order gravel, stone, sand and soil online from Illinois Rock Supply and choose your delivery date for a Scales Mound address.