Select Fill & Dirt Sales
Select fill, fill dirt and sandy loam from two pits we own in Fort Bend County. We sell by the truckload and deliver on our tandem dump trucks.
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A gravel driveway on acreage has to do more than look finished. It carries loaded trucks and equipment trailers through Gulf Coast rain. We build gravel driveways from the county road back to the house pad or the barn. That work runs from Needville and Guy over to properties around Richmond, then down toward Rosharon and Damon. The lane gets cut, shaped and compacted before any rock lands on it. A drive built that way holds its shape through a wet winter.
Our machines are sized for long drives, from a few hundred feet out to a mile of ranch lane. Many go in alongside building pads and site prep on the same property. We haul crushed concrete, crushed limestone and caliche in on our own tandem dump trucks. Where the ground sits low, select fill and sand off our pits raise the subgrade first. That keeps rock up out of the mud, which is what fails most drives around here.
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The rock is the last part of the job. First we strip soft topsoil and cut the driving lane to grade. Low spots get built up with select fill and fill dirt from our pits. The drive then sits above standing water instead of in it. We shape a crown down the center so rain runs to the sides. Ditches or turnouts carry that water away from the base.
Base goes down in lifts, not in one thick layer. Each lift gets spread to depth and rolled tight before the next one. That is how the section locks up under a loaded truck. Published guides put the minimum at 5 to 6 inches for cars. Drives that carry trucks call for 8 to 12 inches, and soft clay pushes it deeper. The same method builds our interior ranch roads and pit access roads.
Three materials do most of the work on Gulf Coast gumbo clay. Crushed concrete costs the least and locks up hard once it is rolled. Crushed limestone, sold as flex base, gives the tighter and cleaner driving surface. Caliche is a Texas classic that binds under compaction, though it softens in long wet spells. We haul all three in from supplier yards on our trucks.
The pick comes down to traffic and budget. A drive that sees a pickup and a UTV can run caliche or crushed concrete. A drive that sees loaded tandems and equipment trailers wants limestone base on top. Our post on road base options for Texas properties compares them in more detail. What sits under the rock still decides how long any of it holds.
The entrance is where a gravel driveway picks up rules. In Fort Bend County, a new connection to a county-maintained road goes through the county. For residential and ag-exempt property on an open-ditch road, Road and Bridge can help install a basic gravel connection, and home drives on those roads go to Road and Bridge for the permit too. Other connections need a driveway permit applied for online. Brazoria County requires a driveway and culvert permit for a new driveway and culvert, and for changes to an existing one, and the county sets residential culverts itself. We build the approach, set grade at the road, and lay base wide enough for trucks to turn in.
A drive off a farm-to-market road sits in TxDOT right of way. TxDOT calls for Form 1058 whenever a new access driveway is built or an old one is changed. We build to the permitted layout once the county or the state sets it. Where brush and trees crowd the entrance, land clearing on acreage opens the route before dirt moves. Where the permit leaves the pipe to the builder, culvert work and ditch shaping happen in the same pass.
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(281) 750-6510From the first look at the ground to the last pass of the grade, here is exactly how it goes.
We meet you at the property and read the job off the ground itself: what is growing, where water sits, how trucks and excavators get in. Big dirt work prices off what is really out there.
You get a free quote with a real number and a real plan: what gets dug or cleared, how many loads move, where the dirt comes from or goes. It holds unless the scope changes.
The equipment shows up when we said. Excavators dig, trucks run in rotation, and on deadline jobs we run shifts around the clock until the volume is moved.
The last pass matters as much as the first load. Pads compacted and holding elevation, ponds shaped and ready for water, ground graded so it drains. We look at the finished work with you before we leave.
Common questions about gravel driveways across Needville & Southwest of Houston. Don't see yours? Give us a call — we're happy to help.
Select fill, fill dirt and sandy loam from two pits we own in Fort Bend County. We sell by the truckload and deliver on our tandem dump trucks.
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We clear acreage with 50,000 pound excavators and haul the debris to our own dump site. Trees come out with the roots attached.
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Stock tanks, fishing lakes and dam work on ranch land southwest of Houston. Big excavators, and the dug dirt goes to work on your place or back to our pits.
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Heavy machine dirt work and grading for acreage, ranches and commercial ground across Fort Bend County. We cut, fill, level and set drainage.
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House pads, shop pads and commercial pad sites, built up with select fill from our own pits. We spread and compact in lifts.
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Ranch roads and road base built to the right depth for the traffic, on a crowned and compacted subgrade.
View DetailsTwo sand and dirt pits in southeast Fort Bend County. Select fill, bank sand and fill dirt come from our own ground, on our own trucks, when your schedule needs them.
Our smallest excavators weigh 50,000 pounds. Ponds, pads, clearing and volume dirt work get machines sized for the job, backed by a fleet of tandem dump trucks.
Hundreds of loads on one project is a normal week here. We run shifts around the clock when a deadline calls for it, and the job is priced from the site, not a phone guess.
Fifteen years working this ground, most of it repeat and referral. That time on coastal prairie clay shows what it does when it rains and what it takes to build on it.
A Texas driveway permit depends on the road your drive meets: TxDOT Form 1058 for state and FM roads, the county on county roads, plus who sets the culvert.
Read more →What a gravel driveway costs in Texas by length, from 100 feet out to a quarter mile, plus base depth, material prices and what moves the number on clay.
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Comparing the three Texas ranch road base materials on cost, durability and mud behavior, with the depths that carry real loads and why drainage decides road life.
Read more →A pond you have been putting off, a pad that needs building, land that needs clearing, or a job that needs truckloads of select fill? Call or send the form. Tell us where the property is and what you want the land to do, and we will set a time to come look at it.
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