Placing Gravel the Easy Way
No need for shovels and wheelbarrows–have your local concrete supplier place gravel with precision and ease.
When I need crushed stone for a concrete sidewalk, driveway, or house-slab base, I order it from the local ready-mix plant. Rather than renting a loader to place the gravel, I rent the ready-mix truck. I can get the ready-mix guys to deliver up to 12 tons of what we call “57” around here (3/4-in. aggregate). The driver easily places the stone where I want it with the truck’s chute. The ready-mix plant charges by the ton for the material and by the hour for delivery, but the convenience is priceless.
—Jim Benton, Riner, VA
Edited by Charles Miller
From Fine Homebuilding #209
Photo: Greg Goebel, Wikimedia Commons
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Sounds like a great idea, I don't do concrete work but have moved many wheelbarrows of material and it is never fun or a quick job !
Once upon a time, this was a really creative idea. Today, however, there are even better alternatives.
This website shows a conveyor truck literally throwing gravel OVER a house. https://www.siteoneconveyors.com/.
This one shows half a dozen pix of trucks throwing gravel 70 feet. http://www.ezgrade.com/work.php
In BC, we call the conveyer trucks, “stone slingers”. I used it when renovating our house. They are very precise and cheaper than a readymix truck.