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

Crushed stone is angular, broken limestone, and the sizes sold here run from 1 inch clean down through 3/8 inch crushed stone. Natural Pea Gravel is a rounded, naturally formed stone, and 3/8 inch natural pea gravel is the size sold under that name. Crushed stone with fines in it binds and compacts into a base. Rounded Natural Pea Gravel does not bind, so it suits walkways, play areas, dog runs and drainage rather than a drive base.

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

Either works, and the choice is mostly about how you picture the job. Tons are the usual unit for base and clean stone. Yards suit buyers who are thinking in volume for soil, sand or mulch. If you are unsure how much you need, each product page has a calculator, and you can pick the unit at checkout when you place the order.

Which stone is best for drainage in Reno County?

Clean washed limestone is the right family for drainage. Sizes run from #4 crushed stone down through 1 inch clean, 3/4 inch crushed stone and 3/8 inch crushed stone, with drain rock sold for the same purpose. The key point is that the stone must be clean, with no fines, so water passes through it. A dense graded material like AB-3 is for a compacted base, not for a drain.

Crushed Stone and Sand, Reno County, KS

Kansas Rock Supply handles gravel, stone and aggregate delivery in Reno County, KS. If you are building a drive, a parking pad or a shed base here, the material you name first is AB-3.

It is the Kansas term for dense graded crushed limestone base, and it is what a contractor orders when they want a base that locks up tight.

This corner of the state sits on sand, gravel and silt laid down by the Arkansas River, with sandy loam over the top. That ground shapes what you put on it.

Ground Conditions Across Reno County

Reno County falls in the Arkansas River Lowlands and the south-central sand prairie. The working season here is long.

The limits are wet spring weeks and high summer heat, and sandy ground is back in shape quickly after rain, so a delivery date is easier to set than it is in wetter country.

Sand drains fast, which sounds like good news until a surface course with no binding fines sinks straight into it. A drive or pad over that ground wants a dense graded material with fines, not clean stone.

Water also sits close under parts of the valley floor.

Wind moves loose sand as soon as the cover is broken, and streams in this part of the state scour their banks in spring high water. Bare sand needs cover, and banks and ditch lines need stone sized for moving water.

Freeze and thaw cycles are shorter here than in northern Kansas, but they still move a drive that has no proper base under it. Frost depth in Kansas is set city by city under locally adopted codes rather than by one statewide number.

Materials Delivered in Reno County

Material is sold by size, from the large clean stone down to the fine bedding products. Here is what each one is for.

AB-3 carries the most weight of any of these for site work. It is a crushed rock and fines blend graded roughly 1 1/2 inch down, and it locks up tight once it is moisture conditioned and rolled.

It is ordered for drives, parking pads, shed and shop bases and road shoulders.

Aggregate base is called AB-3, and the requirements for aggregates for base construction sit in Section 1104, inside Division 1100 of the Kansas Standard Specifications for State Road and Bridge Construction.

City and county work references the same class, which is why AB-3 is the term a Kansas contractor uses when ordering base.

Keep AB-3 and 1 inch minus separate in your head. They are close cousins, but 1 inch minus is the smaller dense graded material for topping a drive, patching soft spots and building up shoulders.

Choosing the Right Material

Harvey, McPherson and Pratt counties all share the same ground region as Reno County, the Arkansas River Lowlands and the south-central sand prairie. Their sand, gravel and silt come from the same river system and the same dune sand.

On that ground, the choice of base or drainage material does not change from one county line to the next.

For a drive, a pad or a shop floor, start with AB-3 or 1 inch minus, because both carry fines and bind. For anything that has to pass water, choose clean stone instead.

1 Inch Clean and Drain Rock are the open graded options for French drains, downspout runs and foundation drains.

Where a bank or ditch has to hold against spring high water, use RipRap rather than a rounded decorative stone. For paths and beds, Walkway Gravel, 3/8" Natural Pea Gravel and Kansas River Rock give a walkable, rounded surface.

Delivery Across Reno County

Kansas Rock Supply delivers bulk material across the county, including Hutchinson, South Hutchinson, Haven, Buhler, Nickerson, Pretty Prairie, Arlington, Turon, Partridge, Sylvia, Plevna and Abbyville. You order online.

Quantities are ordered by the ton or by the yard, whichever suits the job. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size a load before you order.

Pick a delivery date at checkout, and a dump truck arrives and tips the material in one pile on site.

Order Bulk Gravel and Stone in Reno County

Kansas Rock Supply delivers AB-3, clean rock, sand, topsoil and decorative stone across Reno County, from Hutchinson out to Haven, Nickerson, Pretty Prairie and the smaller towns around them. Pick your material, size the load by the ton or the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout.

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

Bulk Gravel and Stone Delivery in Reno County, KS