gravel price

[David - WI]

I have no idea what price you will be able to find in your area, but I can tell you how it works.

We crushed literally hundreds of thousands of tons of stone but we trucked in thousands of tons of the round gravel from about 150 miles away. We paid about $3.50/ton delivered and sold some of it to the landscape places for about $4.50/ton... and they sold it to retail customers as "colored stone" for $45.00/ton. They have a lot of cost in showrooms, fancy yard displays, advertising, salesmen, expensive "retail" locations close to the highway, etc. so it's not all profit. Since they don't sell nearly the volume that we did for building roads & houses, all that extra cost is divided over a much smaller sales volume of stone.

Anyway, I didn't mean to offend anybody... I just think $77/ton is absurd, even in Florida.

[urbanfarmer]

Excellent insight. Yea, that price does seem absurd now!

[davidstcldfl]

UF....I sent you a PM with the contact info, for the driver Sahib used.
Hope it helps...

[zenel]

Hey, really interesting thread.