PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and rock milling services across Burnet, TX and the Highland Lakes country. From cedar brakes on granite and limestone ridges to overgrown pasture near the lakes, our local crew clears brush, opens views, and mills rock into usable ranch roads. Whether you need a few acres selectively cleared or a whole tract opened up, you get one crew, transparent day rates, and a real number before we ever start.
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Land clearing in Burnet, Texas is rock country work, and it takes machines built for it. The cedar that covers Burnet County grows out of granite and limestone that stops ordinary equipment cold, and clearing it means riding over the rock, not fighting it. Our high horsepower dedicated mulchers take cedar brakes down to a clean mulch layer at ranch scale, and skid steer mulchers handle lake lots and homesites around the Highland Lakes.
The jobs we run around Burnet, Marble Falls, Granite Shoals, and Kingsland cover the county’s whole range: cedar removal and fire fuel reduction, lake view clearing, pasture reclamation on the ranches north and east of town, fence line corridors, and pad and road prep with on site rock crushing that turns cleared ground’s biggest nuisance into free base material. No burn piles, no haul trucks, and the oaks you love left standing.
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 or onX pins get most Burnet County quotes done the same day, whether your place is in Burnet, Bertram, Briggs, Kingsland, Buchanan Dam, or along Inks Lake. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Burnet, Marble Falls, Granite Shoals, Kingsland, and the Highland Lakes country.
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.
Granite and limestone crushed and milled on site into base material for ranch roads, drives, and pads.
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 cleared ground in these photos is Burnet work: cedar and scrub taken down to a mulch layer, grass coming back, and the machines that did it. Between the lakes, the granite country, and the ranches north of town, Burnet County keeps our crews busy year round, so odds are good we have run a job like yours within a few miles of it.
Most recent Burnet 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 dense the cedar is, what stays, terrain, and access. Transport up 281 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.
Amazing service and final product. Hunter, Jonathan and Dustin were the operators for both the tree mulcher and the rock mulcher. Their work completely transformed my property. My only regret is that I did not have it done sooner.
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I could not be more pleased after hiring them to clear cedars off my land. They did exactly what I needed, and my place now looks amazing. I learned having the right equipment is key, and Pierce Land Clearing has it.
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From the moment I saw this forestry machine on their website, I not only believed it would get the job done but I desperately wanted one. To say it got the job done is a gross understatement. Cedar trees have no chance!
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Clearing brush on your own rural land in Burnet County needs no permit, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside Burnet city limits and around the lakes, floodplain rules apply near the water, and LCRA has a say over work below the high water line on the Highland Lakes. Deed restrictions in some lake communities mention tree removal. 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: 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 cedar and bigger acreage. Burnet is an easy run up 281 from our Austin yard. Send photos and acreage and we will give you a real number, usually the same day.
That is exactly what our machines are for. Burnet County cedar grows out of granite and limestone that would wreck lesser equipment, but forestry mulchers ride over the rock and take the cedar down to a mulch layer. The rock stays put, the cedar leaves, and the grass finally gets its chance.
Yes. View work around Buchanan, Inks, and the Highland Lakes is some of our most satisfying: we take the cedar and scrub that block the water, keep the oaks that frame it, and suddenly the lot you bought for the view actually has one. Send photos from your porch and we can usually quote it.
If clearing exposes rock where you need clean ground, our rock crushing and milling service grinds outcrops and loose stone into usable base material on site. It is how Burnet County ranch roads and pads get built without hauling in a single load.
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.
Cedar is famously thirsty, and on the fractured limestone of Burnet County a heavy cedar clear often shows up as springs and seeps coming back to life. It also cuts the fire fuel load, which matters more every dry summer out here.
In Burnet County cedar a dedicated mulcher typically covers 1.5 to 2.5 acres a day depending on density, and open scrub runs faster. Skid steers average half to three quarters of an acre. We will give you a day count with the quote so the budget is clear before we start.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked will get most Burnet County quotes done the same day. Flag the oaks you love and the views you want, and we will price the work without you needing to meet us at the gate.
Hilltop HomesiteHorseshoe Bay: one acre opened for a build with a view.See the full project →
5 Acres, Trails ReopenedLlano: impassable trails cleared and widened, cedar out.See the full project →
8 Acres, Homesite PrepSan Marcos: pad and driveway graded, cedar mulched for the views.See the full project →
4.2 Acres, SelectiveSan Antonio: heritage trees protected between a highway and new homesites.See the full project →
12 Acres Grubbed in San AntonioSan Antonio: 12 acres grubbed and reclaimed as usable pasture.See the full project →
18 Acres, SelectiveEvant: 18 acres thinned selectively, hardwoods left standing.See the full project →
Hunting Lane ClearingMelvin: hunting lanes cut and a new right of way opened.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 →
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 →
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 Burnet we cover the Highland Lakes country: Granite Shoals, Kingsland, Buchanan Dam, Inks Lake, and Oakalla. Close by we also serve Bertram, Briggs, Marble Falls, Llano, and Lampasas. Somewhere else in the Hill Country? 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.