Order Gravel, Stone and Soil in Palmyra, PA

Pennsylvania Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Palmyra, PA, and the smartest first move is sizing the load. Plug your bed or driveway dimensions into the calculator, and it tells you how many tons or yards to order. From there you pick the material, starting with 2A modified for anything that has to compact hard.

Palmyra sits in Lebanon County, where the valleys are floored by shale or by limestone and dolomite that weather to clay. That ground decides how deep your base needs to go, so order with it in mind.

Delivery to Palmyra and the Surrounding Area

Order online, choose your quantity by the ton or by the yard, then pick a delivery date at checkout. A dump truck brings the load to your site and drops it where you want it. You skip the trip and the trailer.

We deliver across Palmyra and Lebanon County, including Lebanon, Annville, Myerstown, Newmanstown and Jonestown. Bulk stone, sand, soil and mulch all move the same way: one load, one drop, ready to spread.

Use the calculator before you order. It sizes the load from your area and the depth you plan to build, so you are not short on the last ten feet or sitting on a pile you paid to move twice.

Materials for Palmyra Projects

Landscape work is where most Palmyra yards get built, and the material you pick changes how the finished bed looks and drains. Decorative rock holds its color, sheds water and never needs edging the way mulch does. For a dry creek bed or a border that has to look natural, rounded stone beats crushed every time.

Here is how the landscape materials sort out.

Build the bed right and the stone lasts. Excavate, lay a compacted base of 2A modified where the bed sees foot traffic, then top with the decorative layer. For a dry creek bed, line the trench and set the rounded stone so water has somewhere to go instead of pooling against your foundation.

What to order for a driveway, a patio or a drain

A driveway starts with 2A modified, the standard Pennsylvania base stone, crushed with the fines left in so it compacts hard. Top it with Driveway Gravel if you want a fresh wearing surface.

A patio or paver walkway beds on Screenings, the fine crushed dust that packs firm and levels true. For a French drain or drainage behind a retaining wall, order clean stone: 2B Stone drains freely because it carries no fines. #57 Stone is the same size Pennsylvania yards call 2B.

Ground and Conditions in Palmyra

Start from the soil. In the Great Valley and Ridge and Valley, bedrock is folded into long sandstone ridges with thin, stony soils, and the valleys are floored by shale or by limestone and dolomite that weather to clay. Clay holds water, and a base laid over wet clay will pump and fail no matter how much stone you put on it.

That is why under-built bases go bad here. Excavate to stable ground, use clean stone such as 2B as a drainage layer where water sits, and compact the 2A modified in lifts. Do not lay base on frozen, soft or muddy ground.

Timing matters too. Base, driveway and paver work runs from spring, once the ground has thawed and dried, into late fall. Cold winters bring repeated freeze-thaw cycles that heave and break up a thin base or one that holds water. Frost depth is commonly about 36 inches and is set by each municipality.

In limestone and dolomite valleys, runoff concentrated from roofs, gutters and drives can open sinkholes, so keep water moving away from the house. Runoff off the steep ridge slopes scours roadside ditches, culvert outlets and gravel drives, and stream banks cut back during heavy rain and snowmelt. Rip rap sized R-4 through R-7 armors those spots, with R-4 for ditches and the larger sizes for banks.

Order 2A Modified and Landscape Stone for Palmyra

2A modified is the base that carries most of the work around here, and the decorative stone is what finishes it. Size your load with the calculator, pick your material, and set a delivery date that suits the job. Pennsylvania Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, stone, sand and soil across Palmyra and Lebanon County. Place your order online when you are ready.