Martin Stone Quarries Inc

Martin Stone Quarries Inc is an aggregate producer and stone supplier located at 1355 N Reading Ave in Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania, in the northeastern corner of Berks County near the Montgomery County line. The company operates a working quarry, processing plant and material yard on the site, selling crushed stone and related products directly to homeowners, landscapers, contractors, farms and municipalities. Material can be picked up at the scale house by customers with their own trucks and trailers, or ordered for delivery by the company's trucks.

The business sits in a part of southeastern Pennsylvania with a long industrial history tied to iron ore, limestone and diabase. The Boyertown and Bechtelsville area was a center of iron production in the nineteenth century, and quarrying for construction aggregate became a steady regional industry as roads, rail lines and later suburban development created continuous demand for crushed stone. Martin Stone Quarries operates within that tradition as an independent, locally run supplier rather than a division of a national aggregate corporation, and the site has been a familiar landmark along Route 100 for area builders and property owners for many years.

Products and Materials

Quarries of this type typically carry a graded range of crushed stone products, each sized and screened for a particular purpose. Customers coming to Martin Stone Quarries generally ask for material by the standard Pennsylvania aggregate designations, and the staff at the scale house can help match a product to the job. Common categories include:

• Modified stone (often called 2A modified), a blend of crushed stone and stone dust that compacts tightly and is the standard base material for driveways, parking areas, shed pads and road subbase.
• Clean crushed stone in sizes such as 2B, 1B and 57, used for drainage, French drains, under concrete slabs, around foundations and in septic beds where water needs to move freely through the voids.
• Stone dust and screenings, frequently used as a setting bed for pavers and flagstone, for walking paths and for arena or shed footing.
• Larger rock products including R-3, R-4 and similar riprap sizes for erosion control, stream bank stabilization, swales and slope protection.
• Decorative and landscape stone, including washed river gravel and colored stone used for beds, borders and ground cover.
• Boulders, wall stone and other landscape rock for retaining walls, garden features and natural edging.
• Topsoil, fill and related bulk materials that many quarries stock alongside their crushed products.

Availability of any specific product can vary with the season and with what is currently being processed, so calling ahead is the most reliable way to confirm that a particular size or color is in stock before making the trip.

Pickup at the Quarry

Buying material directly at the quarry is straightforward and follows the same routine at most aggregate operations. Customers arrive, check in at the scale house, tell the weigh master what product and how much they need, and are weighed empty before being directed to the stockpile area for loading by a wheel loader. After loading, the vehicle returns to the scale, is weighed again, and the difference between the two weights determines the exact tonnage billed. This system means buyers pay for precisely what they haul rather than an estimated figure.

Anyone planning a pickup should know the safe payload capacity of their vehicle or trailer. Crushed stone is heavy, and weight adds up quickly: a half ton of modified fills only a small portion of a pickup bed, while a standard half ton pickup should generally not carry much more than that. As a rough guide, one ton of most crushed stone products covers roughly 80 to 100 square feet at two inches deep. Tarping loads is required on Pennsylvania roads, and the quarry follows the same safety rules as any active industrial site, including staying in the vehicle unless directed otherwise and yielding to loaders and haul trucks moving through the yard.

Delivery and Service Area

For larger jobs, or for customers without a way to haul material, the company delivers by truck. Typical delivery equipment at an operation of this size includes tri axle dump trucks, which carry in the range of 15 to 20 tons depending on configuration, and smaller trucks suited to residential driveways and tighter access. Delivery is usually priced by load and by distance from the quarry, so ordering the fullest practical load keeps the per ton cost down.

The Bechtelsville location puts the quarry within convenient reach of Boyertown, Barto, Gilbertsville, Pottstown, Douglassville, Bally, Hereford, East Greenville and Pennsburg, with broader coverage across Berks, Montgomery, Chester and Lehigh counties. Route 100 and Route 73 provide direct access for trucks, and the site is a practical stop for contractors working anywhere along the Route 100 corridor between Pottstown and the Lehigh Valley.

Who Uses the Quarry

The customer base spans a wide range. Homeowners come for driveway resurfacing, drainage repairs, patio bases and landscape beds. Excavating and paving contractors draw on the quarry for base material and backfill. Landscape companies source decorative stone, boulders and wall material. Farms in the surrounding countryside use modified and larger stone for lane repair, barnyard surfacing and equipment pads. Townships and utility crews use aggregate for road maintenance and trench restoration. Because material is sold by the ton with no minimum quantity for pickup, small residential jobs are handled as readily as commercial orders.

Practical Information

• Address: 1355 N Reading Ave, Bechtelsville, PA 19505
• Phone: +1 610-367-2011
• Website: www.martinstone.com
• Business type: quarry and aggregate supplier, with both retail pickup and delivery

Quarry hours are typically weekday mornings through mid afternoon, with limited or seasonal Saturday hours, and operations can be affected by weather and by the construction season, which runs hardest from spring through late fall. Calling ahead is recommended to confirm hours, current product availability, delivery scheduling and payment methods, particularly during winter months or after heavy rain. Customers planning a project are usually well served by describing the job (square footage, depth and purpose) when they call, since the staff can translate those measurements into the right product and the right tonnage.