PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, cedar removal, and forestry mulching services across Bertram, TX and the Highway 29 corridor. Our crews clear overgrown pasture, cedar choked fence lines, and new homesites across Burnet County, out this way every week. From half an acre to a few hundred, you get transparent day rates, straight answers, and a crew that treats your land like their own.
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Bertram is oak and cedar savannah on the edge of granite country, and for generations the work here has been ranching work: pasture reclaimed from cedar creep, fence lines cut clean, stock tanks kept open, and grass brought back to ground that had gone to brush. Cedar is the thief in this county. It takes the water, shades out the grazing, and moves a few feet further into the pasture every year until somebody stops it. That is where we come in, and the mulch we leave behind feeds the grass that takes the ground back.
The newer story is the growth rolling west out of Liberty Hill and Leander. Small acreage homesites along 29 and out toward Oatmeal need lots cleared, views opened, and pads prepped, and the rocky ground that makes this county pretty makes that work technical. Our Bertram rock milling turns that rock into driveway base on site, and the bulldozer crew handles the heavy dirt work when a build follows.
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.
Turn Burnet County rock 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, food plots, 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 Highway 29 corridor is a regular run for our crews: pasture and cedar work around Bertram and Burnet, fence line projects, and homesite clears for families building west of the Leander growth. Nearby Hill Country jobs like our 3 acre selective clear in Lometa, cedar out and every oak kept, show exactly how we treat this kind of ground. See our completed projects.
Most recent Burnet County area 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 Bertram property prices a little differently. Solid cedar pasture is a different job than a lightly wooded homesite lot, and rocky ground shapes the machine choice. 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.
Just had a fence line for a 50 acre tract cleared. Some ravines, trees, trash trees. It is amazing! Will with his magic machine cleared that path and much more. Stumps, dead trees, things that the pioneers could have only dreamed of.
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Highly recommend Pierce Land Clearing! Fair price. Showed up on time and work was as promised. 4.5 acres of solid cedar, oak, mesquite etc. taken care of in less than 3 days. I will not shop around on the next project.
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I live in the Hill Country and I have worked with Taylor several times. He does a tremendous job with a thorough, get-it-done attitude, and with some really great equipment that is impressive to watch in action. Highly recommended!
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Most private acreage clearing in unincorporated Burnet County needs no permit, which keeps ranch work simple. Worth knowing: floodplain rules run along the San Gabriel forks and area creeks, building projects bring county requirements for driveways and septic, and work inside the city of Bertram can involve local rules. We flag anything that applies during the free estimate, before any work starts.
Estimates usually happen within a few days, and photos are enough to get most Bertram quotes started. Typical jobs run one to three days on site, with bigger pasture projects going longer. Rocky Hill Country ground drains well, so rain rarely costs more than a day. You get a start window with your quote and a heads up before we roll.
Bertram jobs run from small homesite lots to full pasture reclamation, so the range is wide. Our day rates are published: $3,000 for skid steer mulchers with transport included, $4,000 plus transport for the high horsepower dedicated machines. Send photos and acreage for a fast firm total, or get an instant ballpark with our cost calculator. We also published a Bertram cost per acre breakdown.
That is core Bertram work. Cedar and mesquite creep takes pasture out of production a few feet a year, and mulching takes it back all at once. The grass returns fast because the mulch layer feeds the soil, and your carrying capacity comes back with it.
Constantly. A clean fence line is cheaper to build, easier to maintain, and it is where cedar starts its invasion. We clear new fence corridors and reclaim old ones, stumps and all, so your fence crew works on open ground.
Burnet County ground gets rocky fast, and we are built for it. Mulching heads work over shallow rock without tearing up the soil, and our rock milling turns loose rock into usable base material for driveways and ranch roads.
Yes. Oak wilt is active across Burnet County. We clear selectively around your keeper oaks, avoid cutting live oaks in the high risk season when possible, keep equipment clean between properties, and seal any oak cuts immediately.
On most unincorporated Burnet County acreage, no. Floodplain rules can apply along the San Gabriel forks and area creeks, and building projects bring county requirements for driveways and septic. Inside the city of Bertram, local rules may apply. We flag anything relevant 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 Burnet County cedar and brush, the dedicated mulchers clear several acres a day and the skid steers cover about an acre or two of lighter growth. Rocky ground and dense thickets slow the pace, which is why we quote the whole job up front.
Yes. The Highway 29 corridor from Liberty Hill through Bertram to Burnet is regular ground for us, and the growth pushing west means we are out here more every year. Estimates usually happen within a few days.
Yes. Stock tank and pond work, ranch road construction, and heavy bulldozer clearing are all in house, so one call covers the whole property.
Cedar and Fence LinesLometa: three acres cleared with clean fence lines to match.See the full project →
40 Acres, Full ClearBastrop County: cedar and yaupon off, pasture back in production.See the full project →
12 Acres, SelectiveGeorgetown: cedar out, every oak preserved.See the full project →
Hilltop HomesiteHorseshoe Bay: one acre opened for a build with a view.See the full project →
127 Acres for the LCRAElgin: a full clear on a public utility timeline, wrapped in 37 days.See the full project →
125 Acres ReclaimedElgin: overgrown pasture put back to work.See the full project →
38 Acre Commercial SiteBrownsville: cleared for development in six days.See the full project →
15 Acres of Solid CedarHico: thick cedar taken down to open ground.See the full project →
9 Acre Pasture ReclamationDale: brush out and grass coming back, two days on site.See the full project →
6 Acres Mulched CleanMorgan: downed trees and brush ground in place.See the full project →
3 Acre HomesiteLexington: cedar removed, pad ready for the builder.See the full project →
Selective Homesite ClearCleburne: shade trees kept, everything else gone in a day.See the full project →Based in Austin, about an hour down 183. We also clear land in Burnet, Liberty Hill, Leander, Georgetown, Marble Falls, and Lampasas, plus Briggs, Oatmeal, and the ranch country between.
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.