PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and underbrush removal services across Bastrop, TX and Bastrop County. From pine thickets and yaupon in the Lost Pines to storm damaged timber along the Colorado River bottoms, our crews and machines work this county thirty minutes from our Austin yard. From a single overgrown lot to a full development tract, you deal with one crew, get honest day rates, and know your price before a machine ever unloads.
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Bastrop is not Hill Country. The Lost Pines are the westernmost loblolly pines in Texas, growing out of deep sandy soil with a yaupon understory thick enough to swallow a deer stand. Clearing here means mulching pine and yaupon in one pass, and it means respecting the ground: sandy soil washes and blows when it gets scraped bare, so we leave a mulch layer that holds the soil, keeps moisture in, and feeds the grass that comes back.
Fire is part of this county’s story too, and it shapes how people think about their land. A lot of our Bastrop work is defensible space around homes, dead timber coming down safely, and thinning the ladder fuels that carry a burn. The rest is growth: Austin keeps spilling east, and homesites and small acreage from Cedar Creek to Smithville need lots cleared and pads prepped. Two of our featured projects sit right here in Bastrop: a 40 acre full clear and a 3 acre selective clear where the oaks stayed and the cedar went. On the heaviest dirt work, our Bastrop bulldozer crew takes over.
Every service below is handled in-house. One crew, one point of contact, from the first walk-through to the final grade.
Brush and small trees ground into soil-protecting mulch in one pass. No burning, no hauling.
Cut the fire load, free the water table, and open sightlines on cedar-choked ground.
Reclaim overgrown lots, pastures, and fence lines from mesquite and scrub.
Selective take-downs and stump grinding for clean, open ground.
Grubbing, grading, and pad prep that hands your builder permit-ready dirt.
Rock and gravel milled into usable base material on site.
Clean corridors for new fencing, utilities, and access roads.
Residential and commercial lots cleared, leveled, and ready.
Stock tanks and ponds dug, shaped, and finished right.
From half acre homesites to utility scale projects, the equipment and crew scale to the job.
Utility corridors, pasture reclamation, invasive cedar and mesquite removal, and prep for whatever you are planning next.
Lot clearing, grubbing, and pad prep that keeps your build schedule on track.
Mesquite and cedar removal, pasture and grazing recovery, fence lines, senderos, stock tanks, and ranch roads.
Multi lot and large acreage clearing with ground left ready for survey, permitting, and infrastructure.
Utility scale site clearing, vegetation removal, and access roads for solar projects across Central Texas.
Transmission lines, pipelines, and fence and utility row corridors cleared to spec and on schedule.
Parks, drainage easements, fire mitigation, and public land maintenance. Easy to work with on bids and compliance.
Senderos, plot clearing, feeder and blind access, and trail systems that make your property huntable again.
A lot of land clearing companies rent whatever the equipment yard has that week. We own purpose-built forestry machines and match them to your terrain. Not sure which machine your property needs? Try our cost calculator for an instant answer.
Our high horsepower dedicated mulchers run 300+ HP and chew through heavy cedar and mesquite at a pace no skid steer can match. That is how big tracts get cleared in days instead of weeks. We bring these machines when your material runs bigger than 8 inches in diameter and the property has access for an 11 foot wide machine.
For material up to 8 inches in diameter, our skid steer mulchers fill the gap. Subdivision lots, tree preservation, tight fence lines, and finish work around structures, they get in where the big machines cannot. Low ground pressure protects your topsoil, and they clear selectively around the oaks you want to keep.
We do not have to point at work in the next county over. A 40 acre full land clearing project and a 3 acre selective clear are both featured Bastrop jobs, cedar and yaupon out, oaks kept, ground left ready to use. When we quote your property, we are pricing dirt we already know. See all completed projects.
Most recent Bastrop County project: July 2026
Send photos and property details for a fast quote, or meet us on-site and we will walk it with you. Either way you get a firm number, free.
Our crew and machines do the work, selectively and cleanly. The mulch stays right where it falls, protecting the soil and feeding the grass. No burn piles, and no haul off needed.
You get open ground, clean sightlines, and land you can actually use again. If your project calls for full site prep, we handle that too.
Every Bastrop property prices a little differently. Dense yaupon under pine is a different job than open savannah, and dead timber takes careful handling. Send us your address, acreage, and a few photos and we can usually quote it without a site visit. Prefer a walk through? We do those too, free either way. Here is what actually moves the number:
Most companies make you chase a number. Here is ours. The machine we bring depends on the size of your material and the access on your property.
Plus transport to your site
Transport included
Day rates help you budget. When you send photos or have us walk the property, you get a firm total for the whole job, free either way. For a deeper breakdown, read our guide on what it costs to clear land in Texas.
Pierce Land Clearing just finished a 2 day job forestry mulching my 10 acre lot. Most of the job consisted of making dead pines and oaks, standing and fallen, disappear.
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They did a great job for us. We had them clear our 4 acre residential lot of about 3 acres of cedar and yaupon. Some of the cedars were old and huge while other areas were very dense.
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They did a phenomenal job cleaning up my 80 acres in Bellville of tree damage from the straight wind storm. Steve surveyed the property and gave me a quote that week, and Dustin worked diligently for 9 days to complete the project. Throughout, I got frequent updates. Outstanding team, outstanding job.
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Most private acreage clearing in Bastrop County needs no permit. The exceptions are worth a minute: floodplain rules run along the Colorado River and area creeks, the city of Bastrop has its own tree and development requirements, and parts of the Lost Pines carry endangered species habitat considerations that can affect large scale clearing. We sort out exactly what applies to your property during the free estimate, before any work starts.
Estimates usually happen within a few days, and Bastrop is close: about thirty minutes from our yard, so scheduling is flexible and small jobs fit in easily. Most residential clearing runs one to three days on site. Sandy ground drains fast, so rain rarely costs Bastrop jobs more than a day. You get a start window with your quote and a heads up before we roll.
Bastrop pricing follows the growth. Yaupon and pine thickets clear at a different pace than open post oak savannah, and standing dead timber adds handling time. Our day rates are published: $3,000 for skid steer mulchers with transport included, $4,000 plus transport for the dedicated machines. Send photos and property details for a fast firm total, or get an instant ballpark with our cost calculator. We also wrote a full Bastrop cost breakdown.
Yes, and around Bastrop that is most of the job. The Lost Pines understory grows yaupon so thick you cannot walk through it, and our mulchers turn it into ground cover in a single pass. Loblolly pines up to the machine limits mulch clean, and bigger timber can be dropped and processed.
Yes. Standing dead pine is both a hazard and a fire load, and plenty of Bastrop County properties still carry scars from past burns. We drop and mulch dead timber safely, leaving the healthy trees you want to keep.
Absolutely, and Bastrop County knows better than anywhere in Texas why it matters. Thinning pine, cedar, and yaupon ladder fuels around your home and outbuildings is one of the most effective wildfire protections there is, and mulching does it without leaving bare scraped earth.
Not the way we do it. Bastrop sits on deep sandy soils that wash and blow when they are scraped bare, which is exactly why we lead with forestry mulching. The mulch layer stays on the ground, holds the soil, keeps moisture in, and feeds the grass that follows.
Most private acreage clearing in the county needs no permit. Worth knowing: floodplain rules apply along the Colorado River and area creeks, the city of Bastrop has its own tree and development rules, and parts of the Lost Pines carry endangered species habitat considerations. We flag anything that applies during the free estimate.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the soil, holds moisture, and feeds the grass as it breaks down. There are no brush piles to burn and no haul off trucks to pay for, which is a big part of why mulching costs less than traditional clearing.
In typical Bastrop growth the dedicated mulchers cover several acres a day, and the skid steers handle about an acre or two of lighter brush. Dense yaupon and big timber slow the pace, which is why we quote the whole job up front.
Quick. Bastrop is about half an hour from our Austin yard, and we work Bastrop County constantly. Estimates usually happen within days, and photos are enough to get your quote started.
A lot. Two of our featured projects are Bastrop jobs: a 40 acre full clear and a 3 acre selective clear where the oaks stayed and the cedar went. Odds are good we have worked ground just like yours within a few miles.
2 documented projects in Bastrop
Every job we publish carries the acreage, the machines, the days on site and what it actually cost. 45 projects documented across Texas so far.
We build ponds and stock tanks here too. On the sandy ground across Bastrop County the first question is whether there is clay within digging depth, which is where our Bastrop pond page starts.
Two of them are in Bastrop itself, a 40 acre full clearing and a 3 acre selective job, and in neighboring Fayette County we mulched twelve tree piles across five acres near Engle.
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After6 Acre Selective Forestry Mulching in Elgin, TexasSee all our documented projectsBased in Austin, thirty minutes up the road. We also clear land in Elgin, Smithville, Paige, Cedar Creek, Rosanky, McDade, Lockhart, Giddings, and Austin.
Quick quotes, competent operators, and top of the line equipment. Dedicated project managers who actually answer the phone, and a family business that actually cares about making customers happy.
