PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and lot clearing across Bridgeport, TX and west Wise County. We open lake views without tearing up the slope, cut cabin and homesites, and take mesquite and cedar off ranch pasture. Honest day rates, a real day count, and a crew that leaves your good trees standing.
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Land clearing in Bridgeport, Texas covers two kinds of property that sit within a few miles of each other. There is the lake, where owners on the West Fork arms of Lake Bridgeport want a view opened, a cabin site cut, or the cedar pulled back off a slope without the bank washing into the water. And there is the country behind it, west Wise County ranch ground where mesquite has taken the open pasture and cedar has closed the draws.
Around Bridgeport, Chico, Runaway Bay, and the lake roads we handle view and lake lot clearing, cedar and mesquite removal, homesite and cabin site prep, pasture reclamation, fence line corridors, and trail cutting. This is Western Cross Timbers sand over sandstone, which means the wrong equipment leaves a scar that takes years to heal. Forestry mulching grinds everything in place and leaves a mat that holds the soil where it is, which matters twice as much on ground that drains toward a lake.
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. Photos, aerials, or onX pins get most Wise County quotes done the same day, whether the job is a lake lot or two hundred acres of pasture. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Bridgeport, Chico, Runaway Bay, and west Wise 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.
Sandstone and caliche crushed and milled on site into base material for drives, cabin pads, and ranch 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, 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 photos on this page are from our cedar and ranch clearing in Wise County, the same sandy Cross Timbers ground the lake sits in. For a documented job written up start to finish, see our 15 acre full cedar clearing project in Hico, and for view and trail work on rough ground, our 5 acre trail clearing and selective cedar removal in Llano.
Documented nearby: 15 acres of solid cedar cleared in Hico
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: acreage, how thick the cedar and mesquite are, what stays, slope, and access. Transport to Wise 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.
Awesome work! Highly recommended!
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Outstanding company. Cleared out around 9 acres of mesquites and prickly pears and some broken down oak trees. The operators are very good at what they do and very courteous. I have some more projects coming up and for sure I know who to call.
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Taylor knows his business and was very respectful of our property. His 3 days of service advanced our land clearing plan beyond our expectation. We will have him back yearly to keep our brush management in check.
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Rural Wise County clearing on your own land needs no permit, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside Bridgeport city limits, clearing tied to a build runs through the normal permitting process. Around Lake Bridgeport, shoreline and easement rules are set by the water authority that controls the lake, and those are worth checking before anyone starts a machine near the water. We flag anything that needs attention when we quote the job.
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: post oak sand works wet a good deal better than clay does, so we lose fewer days to rain here than crews do east of the Trinity. 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 cedar and bigger acreage. Lake lots are usually a single skid steer day. Send photos and acreage and we will get you a real number, usually the same day.
Yes, and it is worth doing carefully. We mulch selectively down a slope, leave the root systems and the mat in place, and keep enough canopy to hold the bank. Scraping a lake slope bare gets you a view for one season and a washout after the first real storm.
Regularly. We cut the building envelope and the drive line, keep the trees worth keeping, and where the ground gives us the material we mill sandstone and caliche on site into base rather than trucking it down a lake road.
That is most of the ranch work in west Wise County. Mesquite mulched at the ground with the mat left in place lets grass come back the same season. We will also be straight with you about regrowth and when a follow up pass makes sense.
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.
It changes the plan more than it changes the price. Western Cross Timbers sand rutts easily when it is wet, so we watch the weather, work the right machine for the ground, and mulch rather than blade wherever we can. That is how you get a finished job without tracks across your place.
In heavy cedar a dedicated mulcher covers 1.5 to 2.5 acres a day depending on density, and open mesquite runs faster. Skid steers average half to three quarters of an acre. Lake slope work is slower on purpose. You get a day count with the quote.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked get most Bridgeport quotes done the same day. Mark your keep trees and we will price the work without you waiting on a site visit.
Every job we publish carries the acreage, the machines, the days on site and what it actually cost. 55 projects documented across Texas so far.
See all our documented projectsFrom Bridgeport we cover the lake and west Wise County: Chico, Runaway Bay, and the ranch country along 380. Close by we also serve Decatur, Alvord, Jacksboro, and Springtown. Somewhere else in north 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.