PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and underbrush removal services across Brenham, TX and Washington County. Our crews clear yaupon thickets, save the live oaks, and bring rolling pastures back, from working cattle land to weekend places around Round Top. You get our own crew and machines, day rates with no surprises, and a firm answer on cost before we ever hit the ground.
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Land clearing in Brenham, Texas is mostly a fight with yaupon, and it is one we win daily. Washington County grows understory brush faster than nearly anywhere in the state, and the rolling oak country that makes Brenham, Round Top, and Chappell Hill so sought after disappears fast when the yaupon takes over. We bring high horsepower dedicated mulchers for real acreage and skid steer mulchers for close work under the oaks, clearing the brush out while the trees that give the land its character stay right where they are.
The work we do around Brenham runs from full pasture reclamation on cattle and hay ground to selective understory clearing on weekend places, fence line and driveway corridors, pond and barn site prep, and cleanup on newly purchased land that sat untouched for years. Mulching in place means no burn piles smoking over your neighbors and no haul trucks, just a clean mulch layer that feeds the grass as it breaks down.
Pricing is straightforward. Skid steer mulchers run $3,000 per day with transport included. High horsepower dedicated mulchers run $4,000 per day plus transport. We quote most Washington County jobs from photos the same day, whether you are in Brenham, Burton, Round Top, Chappell Hill, Washington, or Independence. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Brenham, Round Top, Burton, Chappell Hill, and all of Washington 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.
Rock and old foundations crushed and milled on site into base material for drives, pads, and farm roads.
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 photos on this page come from jobs in Bellville and Carmine, both within a half hour of Brenham and on the same kind of ground: live oaks worth keeping, yaupon and brush that had to go, and owners who wanted pasture back without burn piles. If your place looks like the first photo, it can look like the second.
Most recent Washington 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 property is different, so price comes down to a few things: how many acres, how thick the yaupon and understory are, what stays, and access. Transport to Washington County is built into the quote up front, so the number you get 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.
Excellent work. Our property was complex as we wanted to save some trees, and the operator was amazing at maneuvering around them to clear the 7 acres we cleared.
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Pierce Land Clearing surpassed our expectations. The work was accurate and mindful of the trees that we wanted to keep. Bobby was very professional, polite, and skillful. Would 100 percent recommend.
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Great job, turned a jungle into a park at a fair price, done just in time before the rain. Thanks.
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Clearing brush on your own rural land in Washington County needs no permit, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside Brenham city limits, tree and floodplain rules can apply to larger projects and anything tied to a building permit. Around Round Top and the historic communities, deed restrictions occasionally say something about tree removal, so it is worth a glance at your paperwork. We flag anything that needs attention when we quote.
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 east of I-35 gets greasy after rain, so we watch the weather 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.
Skid steer mulchers run $3,000 per day with transport included, for material up to 8 inches in diameter. High horsepower dedicated mulchers run $4,000 per day plus transport, for heavy growth and bigger acreage. Washington County places tend to be 5 to 50 acre tracts where a day or two of mulching goes a long way. Send photos and acreage and we will give you a real number, usually the same day.
That is the signature job in Washington County. Yaupon fills in under the oak canopy until you cannot see thirty feet, and our operators mulch it out from under the trees without scarring the trunks. The oaks stay, the understory goes, and the place looks like a park again.
A big part of our Brenham area work is exactly that: new owners of weekend and retirement places around Round Top, Burton, and Chappell Hill who want overgrown acreage turned into usable ground. We quote from photos, work while you are away if you like, and leave the place clean.
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.
Yes. The clay ground in Washington County holds water well, which makes it good pond country. We clear the site and the surrounding brush so the dozer work has a clean footprint, and we keep the trees that will shade the finished pond.
Yaupon resprouts, so the honest answer is that one pass does not end it forever. Mulching sets it back years and the mulch layer slows regrowth, then a light touch up every few years keeps the understory open. It is far cheaper to maintain than to reclaim.
Most Brenham area jobs get on the calendar within a couple of weeks, sometimes faster. Photos and a rough acreage are usually all we need to quote, so there is no waiting on a site visit to get a number.
In typical Washington County growth, a dedicated mulcher covers 2 to 3 acres a day and a skid steer runs about half to three quarters of an acre. Thick yaupon under a full canopy is slower, open pasture edges are faster. We will give you a day count with the quote.
125 Acres ReclaimedElgin: overgrown pasture put back to work.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 →
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 →
Cedar and Fence LinesLometa: three acres cleared with clean fence lines to match.See the full project →
Selective Homesite ClearCleburne: shade trees kept, everything else gone in a day.See the full project →From Brenham we work all of Washington County: Round Top, Burton, Chappell Hill, Washington, Independence, and Somerville. Close by we also serve Round Top, Giddings, La Grange, and College Station. Somewhere else in Central Texas? Browse every area we serve or just call.
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.