The crushed gravel will work better than the smooth pea gravel. The crushed gravel will pack tighter. I had never back filled with gravel until I had a pole shed built in 1985. The contractor dug all of the holes large and deep. He then stood the poles up in the holes. He started at one corner squaring everything up and nailing the cross bracing in. He built the entire frame and checked it for being square. He then back filled around the poles. One guy would tap the pole with a sledge hammer while another guy shoveled the gravel slowly around the pole. They never tamped a single pole. Those poles where tighter than any dirt filled pole would ever be. That building is the best built one I have. I have had two others built and the original guy retired. So they where built by others. One concreted the poles in and the other dirt filled them in. The gravel packed ones have been the best. The concrete filled ones rotted off. The dirt filled ones let the barn tilt. The gravel filled ones are still straight and true.
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