Rip Rap, Stone and Soil Delivery in Sherman, ME

Maine Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Sherman, ME, by the ton or by the yard. Each product page has a calculator, so you can size the load before you order.

Start with Type A gravel for a drive or pad, then add coarse stone where water moves. Aroostook plateau ground is well drained silt loam over limestone, slate and calcareous shale, which is farm ground that grades to stony till and thin soil in the hills.

Materials for Sherman Projects

Sherman sits on ground where water arrives fast and has somewhere to go. Snowmelt comes all at once onto ground still frozen below, and that is when ditches, culverts and banks take the hit.

Coarse, angular stone is what you line those places with. The sizes below run from the biggest down to the fine material that beds flatwork.

Bank and slope protection

Riprap is erosion stone, sold in ranges such as 6 inch and 12 to 24 inch. It armours shore and stream bank, culvert outlets and ditch checks.

#4 Crushed Stone, also called 1 1/2 inch crushed stone, takes heavy drainage. Use it on wet subgrade and to stabilize soft ground before a gravel course goes on.

Railroad Ballast is a large angular stone that locks up under load, for track work and heavy yard surfaces.

Drainage stone

3/4" Crushed Stone goes in drainage trenches, drywells and pipe bedding. It sheds water rather than holding it.

3/8" Crushed Stone fits narrow trenches and tight drainage work where 3/4 inch is too coarse.

Drain Rock is washed drainage stone for foundation drains, curtain drains and french drains.

Base and surface gravel

Type A Gravel is the Maine base course for driveways, parking pads, camp roads and shed bases.

Driveway Gravel, sold as 3/4 inch crushed gravel, is the top course on gravel drives and camp roads.

Bank Run Gravel is unprocessed pit gravel for bulk fill, raising grade and rough subbase under a crushed gravel course.

Fine bedding and soil

Stone Dust is the setting bed under pavers, flagstone and walkway stone.

Top Soil, sold here as screened loam, handles lawn repair, seeding and finish grading.

Delivery to Sherman and the Surrounding Area

Sherman is in Aroostook County, and delivery covers the town and the surrounding area. You order online, choose a quantity by the ton or by the yard, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Coverage also reaches Presque Isle, Caribou, Houlton, Fort Kent and Madawaska. A dump truck tips your load on site in one pile, so it helps to know where that pile should land.

Ground and Conditions in Sherman

The working season here is the shortest in Maine. The ground stays frozen for much of the year, hard frost returns early in the fall, and base and paver work waits for a late breakup.

That timing shapes when you want material on site. Snowpack is deep and the melt arrives all at once, into ground that is still frozen below, while silt loam farm soils run and crust once they are saturated.

Sheet and gully erosion shows up on long cultivated slopes during snowmelt and heavy rain. Ditch and culvert scour on the farm road network, and bank cutting along the Aroostook and Saint John rivers, are the same problem in different places.

Frost runs deep across the Aroostook plateau and Saint John uplands, at 5 feet or more. There is no published statewide table, so the town or county building official gives the figure for a footing.

Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Sherman

Maine Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, crushed stone, sand and soil across Sherman and the rest of Aroostook County. Size your load on the product page, choose your quantity, and pick a delivery date at checkout.

Order online when your site is ready.