Fill and Base Material Delivered in Madras, OR

If you are building up low ground or setting a pad for a shop, gravel and aggregate delivery in Madras, OR starts with what goes under everything else. Oregon Rock Supply sells bulk material by the ton and delivers it to your site.

In this part of Central Oregon the ground is young basalt with pumice, cinder and ash over it, and it does not pack the way valley silt does. That is why 3/4 minus is the material to start with here.

Delivery to Madras 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 need to size the load before you commit.

A dump truck tips the load in one pile at your site. Plan where that pile should sit before the truck arrives, because the driver tips it and moves on.

Madras sits in Jefferson County, and delivery covers the town and the surrounding area. That includes Culver, Camp Sherman and Ashwood.

Materials for Madras Projects

Raising grade and building pads is the work that decides everything above it. Fill and sub-base go down first, and the material you pick there sets how the finished surface behaves.

Building up low ground

Fill Dirt is bulk fill for raising grade, backfilling and building up low ground before a base course goes on top. Quarry run, also called pit run, is raw rock straight from the pit face, and it goes down where ground is soft and needs to come up to grade.

Quarry Run is not crushed material. It is what comes off the face, and it works as a build-up layer under a graded base.

Base under a drive or pad

3/4 Minus, also called 3/4-0 or dense-graded base rock, is crushed rock graded 3/4 inch down to fines. It compacts and locks up, which is what a driveway, parking pad, shop floor or shed base needs.

Driveway Gravel surfaces an existing drive or tops a compacted base. On an Oregon drive that means a minus rock that compacts rather than a clean rock that rolls underfoot.

Drainage and bedding

Drain Rock, also called 1 1/2 clean or washed drain rock, is washed and open so water moves through it. It suits French drains, footing drains, drywells and downspout runs.

1/4 Minus, or quarter minus, is the fines product for bedding under pavers and flagstone and for fine grading on paths. It beds pavers, it does not drain.

Ground and Conditions in Madras

Across Central Oregon and the High Lava Plains the ground is young basalt with pumice, cinder and ash soils over it. Pumice and fractured basalt drain very fast, so the problem is usually holding moisture long enough to compact, not shedding water.

Precipitation here runs about 8 to 12 inches a year. That fast-draining ground is why an under-built base shows up quickly: a thin layer over open subgrade never locks up, and the surface above it moves.

The working season runs long and dry from late spring into autumn, cut short at both ends by hard frost. Summer compaction normally needs added water.

Frost depth figures are set by county and elevation, and no figure was researched for Madras. Deschutes County points applicants at the state design criteria hub for the number at a given site.

Questions About Ordering in Madras

What is the best base under pavers in Madras?

Use 3/4 minus as the compacted base and 1/4 minus as the bedding layer that the pavers sit in. The 3/4 minus carries the load because it has fines and locks up.

The 1/4 minus gives you a fine, even bed on top. Keep the two separate: bedding is not a base, and a base course is not a bedding layer.

Do you supply contractors working in Madras?

Yes. Contractors order the same way anyone else does: online, by the ton or the yard, with a delivery date chosen at checkout.

Bulk material arrives on a dump truck and is tipped in one pile at the site. The same range covers fill, base, drainage stone, sand and soil for jobs in Madras and Jefferson County.

Order 3/4 Minus for Your Madras Job

For raising grade, building a pad or setting a base under a drive, 3/4 minus is the material that does the work in this ground. Oregon Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Madras and Jefferson County.

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