Apache Brown D. G. 1/4" Minus Bulk Load
Low Water or Drought Tolerant Landscaping is called Xeriscaping. This is a landscaping approach that focuses on the proper selection of landscape elements and the efficient use of water. It encourages careful landscape planning and the use of sensible landscape design techniques. Xeriscaping can dramatically reduce landscape water use by 50% to 75%. This can be achieved by adopting various water conservation techniques such as planting drought-tolerant plants, using permeable pavers and mulches, installing efficient irrigation systems, and reducing the turf area. Installing landscaping rocks on specific areas in the landscape will also help you save water and reduce maintenance costs. We can design you a very beautiful landscape using exciting flowering plants and shade trees, low water-efficient irrigation with decorative gravel, rock, stones, cobbles, and boulders, and any other features you desire. You or your landscape installation expert will have an installation plan, material list, and plant list for quick action.
Landscape supply yards are infamous for providing buyers with horrible rates of measurement. In nearly all cases they tell you that "their" scoop or skip is the best deal around and that they always give a little extra. Nothing could be further from the truth. All companies that buy at the wholesale level in our industry pay for their rock by the ton. When buy rock by the tone you are buying value, not hype.
Almost any quarry that sells quality rock with a good reputation has a certified scale for weighing large truckloads of rock material. Each "scale house" or "weigh master" issues a weight ticket for the truck passing over the scale. Selling materials by mythical measurements such as the "scoop" or "skip" is the snake oil salesman in the rock yard method for making a quick buck off buyers.
When you pay for materials by ton you know exactly what you are getting. We strongly urge buyer's to request a scale receipt for their orders and not the word of the tractor operator that he put 4 or 5 skips, scoops, or yards in the truck.
When ordering use the Purchase Order function at checkout and enter ROCK as your payment method. This will allow you to create an order for a firm transportation quote without having to pay for it at this time. While we have posted transport rates, in many circumstances we are able to ship the order to you for less. You will be given a firm cost on the whole order within a few minutes to a few hours.
Tons vs. Yards and Square Feet.
In most cases we charge by the ton and we have the receipts from the scale house at the quarry to show upon request. Materials sold by the yard tend to have very in-accurate amounts in the trucks. Amounts depend the size of the loader bucket, how well the material was scooped up and who was supervising the loading of the truck. Scale House totals don't lie, so why take a chance on losing money and time with how many square feet, scoops, skips and or dumps were made in loading the truck?Architects, public agencies, contractors and owner-builders requiring a competitive bid for the materials and transport costs should
E-mail us with material specifications, amount and date needed and buyers contact information. We typically employ trucks with carrying capacities ranging from 17 to 26.5 tons.
Decomposed granite, crushed rock, gravel, sand and similar materials are typically hauled in;
Truck n Transfers from 24 to 26.5 tons,
End-dumps from 24 to 25 tons
Bottom and Side Dumps 25 tons
Super-10's from 10 to 17 tons
River rock and cobbles are most commonly hauled in Truck n Transfer units and End-dumps to about 25 tons.
Rubble and boulders hauled in bulk are transported in End-dumps and Super-10's. Loads range from 10 to 24 tons per load.
Moss Rock and Specialty Boulders are banded to pallets and shipped via flatbeds to about 24 tons per load.
Supersacks, palleted rock and specimen boulders are hauled on flatbeds in amounts to about 24 tons.
Flagstone and other specialty stone materials are haul on flatbeds in amounts up 24 tons per load.
Beach Pebble Orders - Mexican Beach Pebbles are hauled from warehouses space we maintain in San Diego, Ontario California and other
cities in the USA on a seasonal basis on common carriers. Pallets weigh 2,000 to 3,000 pounds each and there are service charges if you do not have a forklift or loading dock at the delivery location.
Mixed or Split Loads - Many crushed and decomposed granite quarries produce more than 1 type of rock and several different sizes of materials. To make the most of your trucking expenses we often can to your site 2 different rock colors or sizes.
End-dump deliveries boulders can often be added to crushed rock orders.
Casa Grande AZ and Colorado Springs Distribution Yards From these yards we can ship mixed loads of Mexican Beach Pebbles, decomposed granite, crushed rock, Arizona and Colorado River Rock, flagstone, boulders and other rock products to landscape and building construction sites throughout the USA and Canada. In many cases contractors and DIY Pro's can get the entire job delivered in a single truck load(s).
