Bulk Material Delivery in Nellis, WV

West Virginia Rock Supply handles gravel and aggregate delivery in Nellis, WV. Sizing a load starts on the calculator on each product page, where you order by the ton or by the yard.

Start with crusher run, the everyday base and drive material in this part of Boone County. From there the choice comes down to what the ground under the load is doing.

A hillside drive, a wet hollow and a creek bank each want a different stone.

Materials for Nellis Projects

Coarse stone does the heavy work on slope, swale and bank protection here. Steep ground and fast runoff call for stone that stays where it lands and lets water move through it.

Riprap is bank and slope armour. It goes on creek and hollow banks, at culvert outlets and along channel work after a washout.

West Virginia yards sell it by stone size and by weight class, so a Class 2 riprap is a weight class, not the aggregate base class.

Railroad Ballast is the coarse angular stone for track beds, hard standing and severe drainage. Where a swale has to shed water fast off a long slope, ballast and riprap both keep the flow open.

#4 Crushed Stone is 1-1/2 inch clean stone. Use it on construction entrances, trench bottoms and the first lift over very soft ground.

#57 Limestone is washed 1 inch clean stone for French drains, pipe bedding and concrete work.

Down at the base end, crusher run is crushed stone with the fines left in, so it locks up tight under a roller and holds a grade on a hillside drive. Local quarries sell it by top size, 3/4 inch, 1-1/2 inch and coarser.

Class 1 Base is the heavier base course under drives, parking pads, shop floors and slabs. Build it up when the subgrade is soft ground or old fill.

Class 2 is the finer crusher run class, for a tighter surface or a top course over a Class 1 base.

Delivery to Nellis and the Surrounding Area

Order online and pick a delivery date at checkout. Quantities are by the ton or by the yard, and each product page has a calculator when you need to size the load.

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers across Nellis and the rest of Boone County, including Madison, Danville, Racine, Whitesville and Comfort. A dump truck tips your load on site in one pile.

Have the drop spot clear before the truck arrives. Loose tools, parked vehicles and low limbs over the pile area slow the unload and leave you with a pile somewhere you did not want it.

Ground and Conditions in Nellis

Work here runs most of the year, held up by long wet spells rather than by cold. Saturated hillside fill will not compact and should not be built on until it drains, so time a delivery to a dry stretch when you can.

Across the Allegheny Plateau coalfields, steep hillsides of acid, stony residuum sit over sandstone, shale and coal measures. Deep colluvium gathers in the hollows, and mine spoil and regolith cover the old workings and benches.

Flat ground is scarce and much of what is flat is fill. Where a subgrade is soft or built up, a coarse base course carries the load, and clean stone handles the water that collects there.

This is the most landslide-prone ground in the state. LiDAR mapping counts about 4.6 slides per square mile in the Cumberland Plateau coalfields, nearly all on slopes steeper than about 21 degrees.

Mine regolith is the most slide-prone material, with shale and siltstone the most susceptible rock. Unreclaimed workings, timber cutting, road cuts and sidecast fill are the usual triggers, and creek banks scour hard in a flash rise.

Narrow hollows funnel rain off long, steep slopes into one creek and one road, so a drive takes runoff gathered from well uphill. Culverts and ditches decide how that water leaves.

Acid mine drainage from abandoned mines has left hundreds of miles of stream in the coalfields running acid, which is hard on metal pipe and on anything set in the water.

Frost depth is set by the county or municipal building official. The nearest published West Virginia figures run about 24 to 30 inches, so confirm the local one before you set anything that depends on it.

Questions About Stone in Nellis

What stone should I use for drainage in Nellis?

Clean washed stone is what drains, because it has no fines to hold water. #57 Limestone and #67 Stone suit French drains, pipe bedding and construction entrances.

#4 Crushed Stone handles trench bottoms and the first lift over very soft ground. Drain Rock covers foundation drains and downspout runs.

What should I have ready when the truck arrives?

Have the drop spot clear and reachable. A dump truck tips the whole load in one pile, so mark out where you want that pile before the truck is on site.

Keep vehicles, tools and low limbs out of the way. If the ground is soft from a wet spell, pick a firmer spot for the pile so the weight does not sink it.

Order Bulk Stone for Nellis

West Virginia Rock Supply delivers bulk gravel, crusher run, drainage stone, sand and topsoil across Nellis and Boone County. Choose your material, size the load and pick a delivery date at checkout, and a truck brings it to your site.

Start your order when you are ready.