Granite Rip Rap

All sizes of cal trans specification rip rap up to 10 tons are available daily.

Granite rip rap.

It can be used for drainage creeks rivers ditches shorelines and slope protection. In addition to considering the stones used to manufacture rip rap you should also take a look at the supplier s inventory. Wilson boulders or rip rap are clean crushed granite. Mountain granite rip rap works well in a wide variety of applications it is used for retaining walls around culvert openings on steep slopes to slow erosion around the base of trees and many other uses.

It consists of a layer of very large stones interlocked together and acts as a barrier on slopes that are unstable because of seepage problems or in areas that are receiving a large concentrated flow. Rip rap sometimes seen as riprap rip rap or stone armor comes from the nautical word rip rap which in 1822 meant stretch of rippling water rip rap can be classified as either graded or uniform. Kafka granite s decorative rip rap however is made up of naturally raw fractured boulders. 2 410 lb yd or 1 21 t yd or 0 8 yd t.

It offers slope protection in creeks rivers ditched shorelines from erosion. Type in inches and feet of your project and calculate the estimated amount of rip rap boulders in cubic yards cubic feet and tons that your need for your project. Also used for erosion control around culverts. Our rip rap also comes in more than one naturally occurring color.

The density of rip rap 3 8 small boulders. 4 21 12 average covers 17 square feet. Kafka granite offers exceptional quartzite and granite rip rap in a vast spectrum of colors. This means that our rip rap can have jagged or pointed edges as opposed to our granite boulders smooth round edges.

These boulders can be used as part of a landscape theme or in engineering projects such as bank river or coastline stabilization. Consult a registered engineer if in doubt. Limestone trap rock granite can be considered riprap it s inherently so jagged that we steer away from it in favor of fieldstone. Although crushed rock e g.

Our rip rap is a large granite rock that can be used for drainage. Sizes run from 1 to 5 in diameter. Building a shoreline out of crushed rock may cause puncturing in the protective barrier of filter fabric the layer of fabric between the earth and the rocks. Riprap is commonly used to protect soil from erosion in areas of concentrated runoff.