PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
We cleared 177 acres in Bosque County for the Dileo Solar project and wrapped it in 32 days. Same crew, same county, and the pond work runs on the same published logic.
Bosque County splits cleanly. Down in the Bosque River valley the soils run deep and hold water on their own. Up on the hills it thins over layered limestone and the questions become rock and sealing. Which one you own is the first thing worth settling.
Valley clay along the Bosque and its tributaries is genuinely good pond dirt. A basin cut into it usually holds without help, dams compact well over a proper key trench, and quotes on this ground normally run the published list exactly as printed.
That is the cheap version and we say so plainly. Nobody farming the valley floor needs to buy a sealing package.
Up on the limestone the soil thins and the cedar takes it. Two things change: how much of the basin comes out as rock rather than dirt, and whether there is enough clay to hold a pool.
Often the better answer is moving the pond downslope into a draw where the ground is deeper. We will suggest that even when it makes the job smaller, because a relocated pond that holds beats a hammered one that does not.
Where a basin genuinely needs help the answers are a keyed clay blanket, bentonite worked in, or a liner, priced the moment we can honestly price it.
A Bosque County pond runs in a set order, and because we already work this county the schedule is usually short.
Text or call with pictures of the spot and what you have in mind. Because the price list is published, we can give you an honest range on the first call, then put a boot on the ground to firm it up.
Your first number comes over the phone. Tell us roughly where the place sits and we can usually put you on the valley or the hill, which decides most of the price. Photos and a pin get you a real range the same day. Once you approve the estimate we come walk it, reading the draw, the catchment, what cedar has to go and whether a loaded truck can reach the spot. Anything that moves the number gets said on that walk.
You get one page with real numbers on it. Excavation, dam construction, spillway, transport, and any flagged contingency, all in plain terms. No allowances that balloon later, no asterisks doing heavy lifting.
Mobilization is usually measured in weeks, not months. The dozer and excavator arrive on a lowboy, we stage at the site, and from that morning the build runs continuously until the pond is done.
The dig itself runs two to five days on most builds. Topsoil is saved for the banks, the core trench goes in first, and the dam is built the slow, right way, in compacted layers rather than one loose push. You will see the pond take shape daily.
We do not leave until you have walked the finished pond with us. The dam, the spillway, the bank grades, the topsoil dressing, all of it inspected against what was promised, and corrected on the spot if it falls short.
Thirty three inches a year on a real catchment means a well sited Bosque County pond fills over a wet stretch. We will not name a date, but we size the watershed feeding your basin so it collects runoff rather than waiting on rain landing in the bowl.
Published, not hidden behind a form. Prices and build times are based on 6 feet of depth at center with a 4:1 bank.
| Pond Size | Starting Price at 6 ft depth, 4:1 bank | Build Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1/4 acre | from $12,300 | 2 to 3 days |
| 1/2 acre | from $19,200 | 3 to 4 days |
| 3/4 acre | from $23,300 | 4 to 5 days |
| 1 acre | from $27,000 | 5 to 6 days |
| 1 1/4 acre | from $30,400 | 6 to 7 days |
| 1 1/2 acre | from $33,800 | 7 to 8 days |
| 1 3/4 acre | from $36,800 | 8 to 9 days |
| 2 acre | from $39,500 | 9 to 10 days |
Prices are based on 6 feet of depth at center with a 4:1 bank. Valley sites usually run this list clean. Hill sites carry a rock variable and are often relocated downslope instead of hammered. Cedar clearing rides on the same quote at published day rates.
Size it, tell us what to do with the dirt, then draw the pond right on a photo of your land. Your estimate comes back by email, along with a preview of the finished water.
We would rather explain the number before you sign than after. This is the whole anatomy of a pond quote.
The number includes the pond, whole and finished: design against the watershed, staking, topsoil stripped and banked, core trench, compacted-lift dam, cut spillway, finish-graded slopes, and dressed banks. Getting the iron to your gate and the closing walkthrough are in there too.
In the valley, usually nothing: those sites run the published list. On hill sites, rock is the variable and relocation downslope is often the cheaper answer than hammering. Sealing appears where the ground will not hold on its own, priced as its own line the moment we know. Cedar clearing rides on the same quote at published day rates.
Real ponds, real day counts, photographed on site.
Dam work, Gatesville
Stock tank holding water, Marion
Pond expansion, LampasasFull process, statewide services, and the build standard: our Texas pond construction page.
Our 177 acre Dileo Solar clearing project is in Bosque County, windrow and pile mulched to a fine solar spec in 32 days. Mobilization to your pond is short and the operators already know what this ground does wet and dry.
It costs nothing to settle early. Tell us roughly where the place sits and we can usually put you on the valley floor or up on the limestone, which decides most of the number before you have gone to any trouble.
Up off the valley the draw where your pond belongs is usually solid cedar, and clearing is often the larger half. We do both halves, one mobilization and one bill.
The Bosque comes up fast. Every dam is keyed into competent material, compacted in lifts rather than pushed up, and given an emergency spillway sized for the watershed above it.
Bosque County runs cattle and a tank that holds is what lets a pasture work through August instead of hauling.
The limestone hills hold deer, and water is scarce up there. Sited well a pond concentrates game and supports a wildlife management valuation.
Water against the Bosque hills is why people buy here. Bank shape and where the deep end sits are decisions worth making before the machines start.
In this county water is the thing people look at before the house. A pond holding in September speaks for the whole place.
When the dirt work is done you can keep the same crew on the finish work. These four add-ons turn a new basin into a finished pond.
Bare banks wash the first time it storms, so we seed and stabilize what we disturb with a mix matched to whichever ground you have.
Aeration keeps water cooler and cleaner through August and cuts the algae that turns a clear pond green by July. Conduit roughed in while the basin is open costs a fraction of trenching later.
Docks and hardened access get planned before the basin closes so footings sit on competent material rather than fill.
Stocking waits until the pond is holding and settled. We will tell you what does well here and how long to leave a new basin alone.
The team with Pierce Land Clearing were great to work with. Taylor was prompt to respond, took the time to help me understand the process and options and got me scheduled for a date for service. Bobby our operator was incredibly nice.
Daniel W, Google review
Pierce Land Clearing just finished a 2 day job forestry mulching my 10 acre lot. Most of the job consisted of making dead pines and oaks, standing and fallen, disappear.
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I cannot say enough good things about my experience working with Pierce Land Clearing. We have a large piece of very heavily wooded and overgrown property and their equipment was able to clear a clean, wide road and open several acres.
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Learn these six and you can grade any pond quote you are handed, including ours.
The water level at the bottom of the spillway, the highest the pond is designed to hold day to day.
Where the dam dirt comes from. On a well designed pond it is the basin itself, so every yard dug does double duty.
One acre of water a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons. The unit that decides whether a stock pond needs a state permit.
Saving the living top layer before the dig and dressing it back over the banks after, so grass takes the first season.
Clay you can roll into a ribbon in your hand. The soil that seals a pond, and the first thing we look for on the walk.
Texan for a working pond built to water cattle. Usually smaller, always practical, and built with the same dam discipline.
We build ponds across Central Texas and the Bosque valley.
A quarter acre pond starts at $12,300, a half acre at $19,200, and a full acre at $27,000, based on six feet of depth at center with a 4:1 bank. Minimum job is $8,000. Valley sites usually run that list clean; hill sites carry a rock variable.
Yes, at scale. Our 177 acre Dileo Solar clearing project is here, finished to a fine mulch spec in 32 days. We already run machines in this county so mobilization is short.
Look at your soil depth and your trees. Deep dark soil and open ground means valley. Thin stony soil with cedar means hill. Tell us roughly where you are and we can usually settle it on the call.
In the valley, usually on its own, which is why those quotes run the list. Up on the limestone it depends whether the basin finds clay, and some sites do not answer until the ground is open. If yours needs sealing you hear the number as soon as we have it.
Often the smarter move is relocating the basin downslope into deeper ground, and we will say so even though it means a smaller job. Where the pond has to stay put, hammer time is priced by the day in writing.
Yes, and on hill sites that is usually the first real work and often the bigger half. Same quote, same crew, published day rates.
Pricing starts at six feet at center and we recommend eight or more where the ground allows. Deeper water stays cooler and cleaner through a Central Texas August.
Two to three days for a quarter acre and nine to ten for two acres. Rock on a hill site adds days and we name that up front.
Send photos or a pin and roughly where the place sits. Valley or hill decides most of the number and we can usually tell you that on the call. We already have machines in this county, so the schedule is often sooner than you expect.