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Ten machines on 1,200 acres for 242 days, or a 38 acre development site cleared in six. Commercial clearing is a scheduling and spec problem as much as a machine problem, and the difference between contractors shows up on the timeline rather than in the brochure. Every job below has a written up page with photographs.
On a homesite the customer wants it to look right. On a solar site there is a written mulch spec, a particle size, and an inspector who measures it. We have cleared to fine mulch spec across 1,200 acres and to a utility standard for the LCRA, and on both the spec drove everything: machine choice, pass count, and how many days it took.
A development schedule has trades stacked behind you and a solar EPC has a grid connection date. Slipping is not a scheduling inconvenience, it is somebody else liquidated damages. We quote in machine days and then we bring enough machines to hit the date, which on Rosebud meant ten of them.
Residential work is one mulcher and an operator. Commercial work is however many it takes, run as a crew with support, fuel and service on site. That is the actual difference between an outfit that clears lots and one that clears sites.
Mulching in place removes the haul-off line, the burn permits and the disposal risk from your project entirely. On big acreage that is not a minor saving, it is often the reason mulching gets specified over dozing in the first place.
The bulk of our large acreage work. Fine mulch spec, windrow or pile mulching, inspected finishes, and schedules that answer to a connection date. See solar farm clearing for the detail.
Raw ground to build-ready, phased so your dirt contractor can start on phase one while we are still clearing phase three. Brownsville was 38 acres cleared for development in six days.
Transmission, pipeline and access corridors cleared to width and maintained on cycle. We cleared 127 acres for the LCRA on a public utility timeline. See right of way clearing.
City, county and district work with the documentation and insurance requirements that come with it. We are used to being the contractor who has to produce paperwork rather than just a truck.
Hundreds of acres of brush reclamation for working operations, which is commercial in everything but name. Priced the same way and run with the same fleet.
Real projects with full write-ups and photographs. Every card opens the project page, including the day counts and what the spec was.
The same published rates as everything else: $3,000 per day for a skid steer mulcher with transport included, $4,000 per day plus transport for a high horsepower dedicated mulcher. Commercial pricing is that arithmetic multiplied by however many machines the schedule demands, which is why the quote reads in machine days rather than per acre.
The same 200 acres costs differently at 60 days than at 20, because 20 means more iron and more crew on site at once. Tell us the date you actually have to hit and we will tell you what it takes, rather than quoting a comfortable schedule and renegotiating later.
Spec first: a fine mulch finish takes more passes than a rough clear. Then stem density, terrain, access for lowboys and fuel, whether stumps have to come out, and how the material is allowed to be left. Every one of those is a written line.
Quote first, walk after you approve it. The difference at this scale is that the walk includes your schedule, not just your dirt.
Send the boundary, the acreage, the spec if there is one, and the date. On commercial work the date is usually the binding constraint and everything else is arranged around it.
Machine days by phase, the fleet it assumes, mobilization, and clearing against grubbing against dirt work as separate lines. Built from jobs at comparable scale rather than scaled up from a homesite.
Once the estimate is approved we walk it with your people: access for lowboys and fuel, staging, phasing against the other trades, and anything that has to be protected or avoided.
Machines, crew and support arrive together. On a large site that is a convoy and a laydown area rather than one trailer, and it is planned in advance rather than improvised.
Passes to whatever finish the spec requires, with progress reported against the schedule so you can tell your own client something true.
Walked against the quote and against the spec, with whoever has to sign it off. Anything short gets fixed before we demobilize, not after.
A forestry mulcher does not know whether it is on a build lot or a solar site. What changes is how many of them, for how long, to what written standard, and how much of the work is scheduling rather than clearing. If you are clearing a homesite or an acreage tract, our lot clearing page is the one you want.
Residential ends with an owner walking the ground and being pleased. Commercial ends with an inspector, an EPC or a GC measuring against a spec. That single difference changes how the work is quoted, how it is documented and how much of it is paperwork.
On a lot, the risk is that you are unhappy. On a site, the risk is that the trades behind us cannot start. That is why commercial quotes carry phasing and why we would rather tell you a date is tight than agree to it and find out together.
Preston, Dustin, and Steven just wrapped up an amazing job on an 800-acre commercial property. They were professional, dependable, hardworking, and transparent. I would highly recommend their services to anyone.
Nick Rodriguez, Google review
The Pierce guys rocked our project out of the park! We had a commercial property that needed some grading and redesign of drainage for future development. They brought in a huge dozer and made light work of our needs.
Chris Neighbors, Google review
I am a home builder in Baton Rouge Louisiana, but I am working on a pretty large project in Austin Texas. I have a lot of experience working alongside contractors in all trades.
Alan Colby, Google review
The machines are the same. What changes is scale, the written spec, and who signs it off. Residential ends with an owner walking the ground; commercial ends with an inspector or a GC measuring against a standard. Commercial also runs a fleet rather than a machine, because the date is usually contractual.
Priced in machine days at our published rates: $3,000 per day for a skid steer mulcher with transport included, $4,000 per day plus transport for a high horsepower dedicated mulcher, multiplied by the fleet the schedule requires. Spec and density move it more than acreage does.
1,200 acres at Rosebud for Cattlemen Solar: fine mulch spec, 242 days, ten machines. Before that 800 acres at Brownwood for Chisme Solar in 154 days. Both have full write-ups with photographs on this site.
Yes, and most of our large acreage work is exactly that. Fine mulch spec, windrow or pile mulching depending on what the EPC wants, inspected finishes. Send us the spec sheet and we will tell you the pass count and the day count it implies.
Yes, but as a separate quoted trade rather than folded into the clearing number. Clearing, grubbing and excavation appear as three lines, because they are three different machines doing three different jobs.
Yes, and we are used to producing the documentation that public and institutional clients require rather than just showing up with a truck. Tell us what your contract needs and we will send it.
Statewide. Rosebud, Tilden, Brownsville and Brownwood are a long way apart and all of them are documented on this site. Mobilization is a written line that reflects the distance.
Send the acreage, the spec if there is one, and the date you have to hit. You will get machine days and a fleet that answers to it, not a comfortable schedule we renegotiate later.
