PIERCE
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CLEARING
Brush clearing is the job where what you leave matters as much as what you take. Understory and thickets out, mature trees standing, ground you can walk and see across again. One machine grinds it where it stands, so nothing gets hauled off and nothing gets burned.
Most people asking for brush clearing do not want a field. They want the tangle under the canopy gone so the place is walkable, huntable, grazeable or simply visible again, with the trees left standing. That is a steering job for an operator rather than a blade job, and it is what a mulcher is actually best at.
A full clear takes everything. Brush clearing takes the layer underneath and leaves the structure. The price difference is real but it is not always in the direction people expect: selective work is slower per acre, and there is far less material to grind, so the two often land closer together than the description suggests.
A shredder on a tractor cuts light regrowth on ground that is already open. It will not touch a closed thicket, and putting one into eight inch stems hands you a broken machine and an invoice. If your stems have gone woody you are past brush hogging and into mulching, and it is worth knowing which side of that line you are on before you get quotes.
Ground into a mulch layer where it stood. No haul off, no load counts, no disposal fee, no burn permit, and no truck route through the part of the place you actually like. On brush work the layer also suppresses some of what tries to come straight back.
Yaupon, saplings and thicket taken out from under oaks and elms, leaving the trees and opening the floor. On Hill Country and Post Oak ground this is the single most transformative thing you can do to a wooded tract.
Brush encroaching on ground that used to be open. If it is going back to grazing it is pasture reclamation; if you just want it usable and visible again, this is the same machine and a lighter pass.
Clean lines you can see along, build on and maintain. Clear before you fence rather than after, because a line cut through standing brush costs more and comes out crooked. See fence line clearing.
Reopening what has closed in and widening what is too tight for a truck or a side by side. Llano was five acres of impassable trails cleared and widened with the cedar taken out.
Full write ups with acreage, machines and day counts.
Carlton: the owner marked the trees himself, brush out and a fine mulch finish, one day
Elgin: yaupon and brush out, cedar elms and oaks kept, one day
Evant: 18 acres thinned selectively, hardwoods left standingLlano: 5 acres of impassable trails cleared and widenedDale: 9 acres, brush out and grass coming back, two days on siteContracted 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!
Trevor Seret, Google review
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.
olivia gutierrez, Google review
Super friendly and efficient! Got the job done in one day, clearing out all the dead cedar while leaving the pretty oaks. Excellent job, thank you!
Michelle Aguayo, Google review
We live on 12 acres off 1431. When we purchased our property we absolutely fell in love with the amazing views of the Hill Country but were strapped with inheriting tons of cedars, a few pitiful oaks, and lots of debris.
Jim Abshire, Google review
Underbrushing is the version of brush clearing where the trees stay. We take out the yaupon, greenbrier, saplings and scrub growing beneath the canopy and leave the hardwoods standing, so the land opens up without losing what makes it worth owning. On hunting tracts it restores sight lines and shooting lanes, on ranches it puts sunlight back on the grass, and on homesites it turns a wall of thicket into park-like ground you can actually walk.
The tool is a forestry mulcher sized to the job: a compact machine threading between keeper oaks on a small tract, a high horsepower carrier on pine-country acreage where the understory comes back every few years. The brush grinds into mulch where it stood, nothing gets piled or burned, and the root systems of the trees you keep are never disturbed by blades or grubbing.
Underbrush work is steady demand in the pine and post oak country from Conroe and Montgomery up through the northern timber counties, and on hunting land statewide. Priced like the rest of our brush work: published day rates, quoted honestly from photos of your understory density.
Not sure whether your land needs a full clear or selective work? The brush clearing vs underbrushing guide walks the decision with photos, costs, and regrowth honesty.
Removing the understory layer, the thickets, saplings and scrub growing beneath and between mature trees, while leaving the trees standing. On our jobs it is done with a mulching machine that grinds the growth where it stands and leaves it on the ground as a mulch layer.
Priced in machine days. A high horsepower mulcher is $4,000 per day plus transport, a skid steer mulcher is $3,000 per day with transport included, and there is a one day minimum on every machine. Per acre, light brush and understory typically runs $1,300 to $2,000 once a job is big enough to spread a day across. See full pricing.
Land clearing takes everything and leaves you open ground. Brush clearing takes the layer underneath and leaves the trees. The second is slower per acre because the operator is steering rather than driving, but there is far less material to grind, so the prices often land closer together than the descriptions suggest.
No. Brush hogging is a shredder on a tractor and it works on light regrowth over ground that is already open. It will not go through a closed thicket, and pushing one into woody stems breaks the machine. Once stems have gone woody you need a mulcher. We offer both, and shredding is Central Texas only.
Yes, and it is the normal way we work. Mark them or walk them with us and the operator steers around them. Our default on any tract is to take less rather than more and let you tell us to go further, because the opposite is not reversible.
Some of it. Cedar returns from seed rather than from the stumps, so you get seedlings in year two or three that are cheap to handle at ankle height. Yaupon comes back readily from the base. Mesquite resprouts from the crown and usually wants grubbing instead. Budget a maintenance pass rather than a second clearing.
It stays on the ground as mulch. Nothing hauled, nothing burned, no disposal fee and no burn permit. On brush work the layer also suppresses part of what tries to come straight back, which bare pushed ground does not.
A high horsepower mulcher covers about three acres of mixed growth in a day, more on light understory and less in a heavy thicket. Most residential and small acreage brush jobs are one or two days. Your quote states the day count rather than leaving it open.
Statewide. Documented brush and selective jobs on this site run from Elgin and Dale through Llano and Evant and out across Central Texas, and we travel well beyond that. Mobilization is a written line reflecting the distance.
Send the acreage, what is growing on it, and what you want left standing. A photo of the worst of it helps most. You get back a day count and a written number. Call 512-400-2693.
Brush and underbrush work we have documented recently: 6 acres of brush windrows at Universal City, 4 acres of selective clearing at Paige and 3 acres of selective clearing at Somerville. Each one is written up with the day count, the machine used and what it cost.