Granite Rip Rap

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.

Granite rip rap.

Sizes run from 1 to 5 in diameter. It offers slope protection in creeks rivers ditched shorelines from erosion. Kafka granite offers exceptional quartzite and granite rip rap in a vast spectrum of colors. Our rip rap also comes in more than one naturally occurring color.

Consult a registered engineer if in doubt. These hard stones can handle whatever mother nature throws their way. 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. Wilson boulders or rip rap are clean crushed granite.

The density of rip rap 3 8 small boulders. 4 21 12 average covers 17 square feet. The best rip rap is comprised of granite gneiss sandstone or trap rock. Rip rap is a large granite rock.

2 410 lb yd or 1 21 t yd or 0 8 yd t. 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. 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.

Kafka granite s decorative rip rap however is made up of naturally raw fractured boulders. Also used for erosion control around culverts. Although crushed rock e g. All sizes of cal trans specification rip rap up to 10 tons are available daily.

This means that our rip rap can have jagged or pointed edges as opposed to our granite boulders smooth round edges. Our rip rap is a large granite rock that can be used for drainage. 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. Limestone trap rock granite can be considered riprap it s inherently so jagged that we steer away from it in favor of fieldstone.