PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Forestry mulching, understory clearing and homesite prep in Brownsboro and northeast Henderson County. Machine day pricing, transport quoted up front.
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Brownsboro is close enough to Smith County that the ground reads like Tyler rather than like the lake towns west of here. Taller canopy, real pine rather than scattered pine, and tracts big enough that an owner is usually deciding what to keep rather than what to remove. That is the useful distinction on this ground: the canopy is generally worth keeping and the understory is the whole problem.
Forestry mulching is built for exactly that. A mulching head grinds yaupon, sweetgum and greenbriar to a chip floor and leaves the pines and the good oaks with room to breathe, and the chip goes back on sandy ground as cover instead of getting piled and burned. Where a pad or a drive has to be opened all the way it becomes site preparation, and on hunting tracts the same machine cuts lanes and openings without touching the canopy.
A full service land clearing company serving Brownsboro, Chandler, Athens, Murchison, and Northeast Henderson 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.
Base rock brought in and spread for drives and pads on wooded tracts in northeast Henderson 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 a 12 acre tree preservation job in Georgetown and an 8 acre pasture reclamation in Elgin.
Documented job: a 12 acre tree preservation job in Georgetown
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 yaupon, sweetgum and greenbriar has gotten, what you want left standing, and how the machines get through your gates. Transport to Henderson 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.
Brandon from Pierce Land Clearing came out and inspected my lot. He was very professional and easy-going. No pressure. The work was performed quickly and the end result was neat considering it was land clearing.
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Contracted Pierce to clear 5 acres of land. They did quick, quality, and outstanding work removing all the requested trees and preserving the oaks. Definitely recommend!
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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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On rural Henderson County land you own, clearing generally needs no permit and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. If your place carries a timber valuation it is worth a call to the appraisal district before changing land use.
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: sand over clay in the bottoms stays soft long after the ridges have dried, so we work the high ground first when the weather turns. You get a start window with your quote and a heads up before we roll in.
Priced by the machine day. A skid steer mulcher is $3,000 per day with transport included and is usually right on a lot, a high horsepower mulcher is $4,000 per day plus transport on acreage, and dozer or excavator work is $3,000 per day plus transport. One day minimum on every machine.
Yes, and in Henderson County it is most of what gets asked for. Yaupon mulches easily because the stems are small, so it is rarely the expensive part of a job. It does come back readily from the base, so plan a maintenance pass rather than expecting one clearing to hold for a decade.
Yes. An operator steers a mulcher, so the understory comes out and the canopy stays. On East Texas ground that is usually the whole point, because the trees are why the place is worth what it is.
Sandy acid soil and real rainfall. yaupon, sweetgum and greenbriar fill the space under a canopy far quicker than brush does in the Hill Country, and a place that looked open five years ago can be a wall now. Budget a maintenance pass in year two or three rather than a second full clear in ten.
Possibly. The incorporated lake cities have their own ordinances, many subdivisions carry deed restrictions, and work near the water line falls under the Tarrant Regional Water District which controls Cedar Creek Lake. Rural Henderson County acreage you own is generally exempt.
One day, and it holds on every machine we own. On a small lot the way to get value is to stack the work: the lot, the drive and the fence line in the same visit while the machine is already there.
Yes, and sand is the reason it matters. A cut shoulder sloughs and a drive ruts under a loaded truck far more readily than it would on clay, so access work here wants base rock rather than shaping alone.
It is ground in place and left as a mulch layer, which on sand also helps hold the soil through a hard rain. Nothing hauled off, nothing burned, no disposal fee.
Every job we publish carries the acreage, the machines, the days on site and what it actually cost. 46 projects documented across Texas so far.
See all our documented projectsFrom Brownsboro we cover Northeast Henderson County: Chandler, Athens, Murchison. 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.