Fill and Base Material Delivered in Pittsfield, ME

If you need gravel and aggregate delivery in Pittsfield, ME, Maine Rock Supply sells it in bulk and sends it to your site. Type A gravel is the base course this part of Somerset County is built on.

Around here the ground is dense stony till over slate and granite, so how much base you need depends on what the soil does with water.

That question comes before the choice of material, not after it.

Delivery to Pittsfield and the Surrounding Area

You order online, pick a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and choose a delivery date at checkout. Each product page has a calculator if you want to size the load before you buy.

A dump truck tips the material in one pile at the site. Where that pile lands is your call before the truck arrives.

Maine Rock Supply delivers to Pittsfield and the rest of Somerset County, including Skowhegan, Fairfield, Madison, Norridgewock and Anson.

Materials for Pittsfield Projects

Much of the work in this area starts with raising grade or building a pad. Low ground, a wet corner, a shed or garage going up on a spot that does not sit level: that is fill and sub-base work before it is anything else.

Fill Dirt is bulk fill, also called common borrow, and it is what you use to bring a grade up or backfill an excavation. It is not a finished surface.

Bank run gravel, also called pit run gravel, comes out of the pit as it lies. It is unprocessed, so it works as a rough subbase under a crushed gravel course rather than as a driving surface.

Order it as Bank Run Gravel when you are building up a pad or a camp road from nothing.

Once the grade is where you want it, Type A Gravel is the compacted base course for drives and pads.

On top of that base, driveway gravel is the running surface. The size yards around here sell for it is 3/4 inch crushed gravel, and you order it as Driveway Gravel.

For a patio, walkway or any flatwork, Stone Dust is the bedding layer. Screenings, also called crusher dust, sit under pavers and flagstone as a setting bed.

Ground and Conditions in Pittsfield

Across the Central hills and Penobscot Valley, the uplands are dense stony till over slate, schist and granite. Those soils hold a hardpan layer that sheds water sideways instead of letting it down.

The practical result is ground that stays saturated through snowmelt. An under-built base on that ground pumps, shifts and ruts well into spring.

The esker gravels that run through this part of the state drain freely by contrast, so the soil under one pad can behave nothing like the soil under the next.

Frost is deep through the interior hills, and the freeze and thaw heaves gravel roads and drives. Frost has to be fully out before a base can be compacted, which shortens the working season compared with southern Maine.

Erosion shows up on long hill runs, where snowmelt and rain scour ditches, culverts and stream banks. Exposed till on camp and logging roads gullies quickly.

Riprap is the armouring stone for culvert outlets, ditch checks and bank work.

Order Type A Gravel for Your Pittsfield Project

Type A gravel is the base this area builds on, and it is the material to start with when you are raising grade or setting a pad. Maine Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand, soil and mulch across Pittsfield and Somerset County.

Choose your quantity and place your order online.