PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing works Belton and the Bell County hill ground around Belton Lake and the Leon River. Cedar, mesquite and brush on rocky land that comes back if you only cut it. Honest day rates and a real machine.
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Land clearing in Belton, Texas is Bell County work on both sides of the fault. Cedar and live oak on the rocky ground west of town, mesquite and hackberry on the blackland east of it.
Around Belton, Temple, Salado, Nolanville and Morgan’s Point Resort we handle cedar and brush removal, fence row clearing, pasture reclamation, lake lot and view clearing, homesite and barn pad prep, driveway corridors, and grinding old push piles. Priced by the machine day, transport shown on the quote.
A full service land clearing company serving Belton, Temple, Salado, Gatesville, Lampasas, and Bell County.
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.
Caliche and crushed base brought in and spread for ranch roads, barn pads and driveways across Bell County.
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.
The photographs on this page are from clearing work on Texas ground of the same kind. For documented jobs with acreage, machines and day counts, see 18 acres of selective clearing at Evant and 1,200 acres cleared at Rosebud.
Documented job: 18 acres of selective clearing at Evant
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 place is different, so the number comes down to acreage, how thick the cedar, mesquite and hackberry has gotten, what you want left standing, and how the machines get through your gates. Transport to Bell County is built into the quote up front, so the number you are given is the number you pay.
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.
The Pierce Land Clearing team did an excellent job on our property near Gonzales, Texas. Johnathan arrived, started, and finished on time. When the machine had a hydraulic issue, they sent a mechanic on-site, and still managed to complete the work as scheduled. We recommend them and plan to use them again.
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Top notch company, top notch equipment, most importantly top notch people! I have a landscape company in Austin that generates tons of brush and leaves. Bobby came out and made mince meat out of our mountains of brush!
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Jonathan did an excellent job! I would absolutely recommend him and have him back anytime! The mulch was very fine and exceeded my expectations!
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Rural Bell County clearing on your own land needs no permit, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside Belton city limits, clearing tied to a build runs through the normal permitting process. If your place carries an agricultural exemption, keeping it is worth a call to the county appraisal district before you change how the ground is used.
Estimates usually happen within a few days of your call. Most residential jobs run one to three days on site, and larger acreage moves at several acres a day with the dedicated mulchers. One local quirk: the blackland clay here gets greasy after rain, so we watch the forecast and schedule around it rather than tearing up your ground. You get a start window with your quote and a heads up before we roll in.
Priced by the machine day. A high horsepower mulcher is $4,000 per day plus transport, a skid steer mulcher is $3,000 per day with transport included, and dozer or excavator work is $3,000 per day plus transport. One day minimum on every machine. Most jobs around Belton are one or two days.
Usually, and it is a common reason people call. Ashe juniper grows dense and holds its foliage right to the ground, so taking it out while leaving the live oaks and elms standing opens the line of sight without stripping the lot. We mark what stays before anything starts.
Yes. Old push piles grind faster than standing timber because the material is already down, and it saves you a burn permit and a weather window. Nothing gets hauled off.
It changes what is possible more than what it costs by the day. Mulching brush off shallow limestone works fine and the day rate is the same. Anything that has to go below the surface, a pad cut or a pond, gets priced from a test pit rather than a guess, because the rock decides it.
On rural Bell County land you own, generally no, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside the Belton city limit, clearing tied to a build goes through normal permitting. Check before you clear inside the limit.
Cut cedar does not resprout from the stump the way mesquite does, so mulching it is a real fix rather than a delay. What comes back is seedlings out of the seed bank and off neighbouring ground, which is a mowing and maintenance question, not a reclearing one. Keep after the small stuff and the job holds for years.
Less of a problem here than out on the blackland. The rocky ground around Belton drains fast and we can usually work it within a day or two of rain. Low ground and creek bottoms are the exception and we will say so when we walk it.
Yes, along with the rest of Bell County. Transport is a written line on the quote reflecting the distance.
It is mulched in place and left as a layer on the soil, which holds ground through a hard rain and slows what tries to come back. No hauling, no burning, no disposal fees.
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. Bell County clay will usually seal a pond without a liner, which takes the largest variable out of the price: see pond construction in Belton.
See all our documented projectsFrom Belton we cover Bell County: Temple, Salado, Gatesville, Lampasas, and Killeen. See every area we serve.
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.