How much creek gravel do you need?
Enter the size of your farm lane or fill area. You get tons, cubic yards and truck loads of creek gravel.
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Assumes creek gravel at 1.35 tons per cubic yard. Yard stone runs bigger or smaller from one pile to the next, so ask your supplier for their number.
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About creek gravel
Creek gravel is natural, rounded gravel dug from creek beds and gravel bars, with sand and small stones mixed in. Country roads and older driveways were often built from it before crushed stone was easy to get. It packs fair when wet and rolled, but not as hard as crushed stone with fines.
More about creek gravel
Creek gravel is sold more or less the way it comes out of the ground, sometimes screened to take out the big rock and sometimes not. One load can be mostly pea-size stone and sand, and the next can carry cobbles, so look at the pile before you buy. Some areas call it creek rock or bank gravel.
For a farm lane, spread 4 to 6 inches and let traffic and rain work it in, then blade it smooth. It makes fair fill under a building pad when it has enough sand to hold the stones together, and it backfills around a foundation without the sharp edges of crushed stone.
The round stones never lock the way angular pieces do, so expect ruts on a hill or where trucks turn. The sand and silt in an unwashed load hold water, and a pile dug from a wet creek bed can weigh well over the dry figure until it drains.