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Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and pasture reclamation services across Cuero, TX and DeWitt County. Our crews grind down mesquite and huisache, cut senderos, and put ranch ground back to work from Cuero to the Guadalupe bottoms. Whether it is selective clearing around your good trees or a full clear cut, you get one crew, one honest price, and no burn piles left behind.
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Land clearing in Cuero, Texas is a brush country fight, and we bring brush country equipment. Mesquite, huisache, and prickly pear take DeWitt County ground a few feet a year, and winning it back means machines that grind acres a day, not chainsaws and burn piles. Our high horsepower dedicated mulchers reclaim pasture at ranch scale, and skid steer mulchers handle headquarters, pens, and tank edges.
Around Cuero, Yorktown, Westhoff, and Nordheim we handle mesquite and huisache removal, pasture reclamation, sendero and hunting lane cutting, fence line and right of way corridors, oilfield pad and access road cleanup, and tank site work. Mulching in place leaves a protective layer that feeds the grass, with no burn piles smoking and no haul trucks on your caliche roads.
Pricing is simple. Skid steer mulchers run $3,000 per day with transport included. High horsepower dedicated mulchers run $4,000 per day plus transport, and on open brush country they are almost always the better value per acre. Photos or onX pins get most DeWitt County quotes done the same day, whether your place is in Cuero, Yorktown, Thomaston, Meyersville, or Westhoff. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Cuero, Yorktown, Westhoff, Nordheim, and ranches across DeWitt 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.
Caliche pads and rock crushed and milled on site into base material for ranch roads 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, food plots, 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 photos on this page come from a recent ranch clearing job in the Whispering Oaks country outside Gonzales, thirty minutes up the road: mesquite and brush going in, open ground with the oaks standing coming out. It is the same brush mix and the same machines we bring to DeWitt County ranches every season.
Most recent brush country 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 ranch is different, so price comes down to a few things: how many acres, how thick the mesquite and huisache are, mulching versus grubbing, what stays, and access. Transport to DeWitt County 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.
Good communication. Professional. Worked fast but did a thorough job. The big mulcher did a great job of clearing land, including several large trees, and left a nice clean look.
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These guys are great! We booked a date and they showed up on time and went straight to work. Taylor, the owner, answered all of my text messages promptly. I have five acres of very dense elm and oak trees.
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I am so glad I found them to help me clear our land. We were tired of paying thousands of dollars to rent wood chippers, tractors, shredders, and chain saws, and still not being done with the project.
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Out in DeWitt County, clearing brush on your own ranch needs no permit, and agricultural land work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside Cuero city limits the main consideration is floodplain along the Guadalupe, which runs wide here. Old oilfield sites can carry surface use agreements worth a glance. 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 brush and big acreage. DeWitt County work is ranch scale, where the big machines earn their keep per acre. Send photos and acreage for a real number, usually the same day.
That is the DeWitt County double act, and yes. Both resprout, so method matters: mulching is fast and economical and sets the brush back years, grubbing the root crowns slows regrowth much more. We will look at your ground and tell you straight which fits your goals and budget.
Yes. Brush country hunting land is some of our favorite work: senderos cut clean, shooting windows opened, food plot ground cleared, and blind and feeder pads prepped, laid out the way you and your hunters want them.
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.
Yes. Plenty of DeWitt County places carry Eagle Ford legacy sites, and we clear the brush off old pads, open the access roads back up, and mill the caliche surfaces back into usable base where you want them working again.
We do. Our crews run the whole state from our Austin yard, and the brush country from Gonzales down through DeWitt County is a regular circuit. Transport is in the quote up front, and photo quoting means you have a number before we make the drive.
On open mesquite and huisache flats a dedicated mulcher covers 2 to 3 acres a day, sometimes more in light brush. Solid thickets run slower. Skid steers average half to three quarters of an acre, which is why ranch work down here almost always gets the big machines.
That is usually the point. Mesquite and huisache steal water and sunlight from grass, and clearing puts pasture back into production. The mulch layer feeds the soil as it breaks down, and with a maintenance pass every few years the grass keeps winning.
38 Acre Commercial SiteBrownsville: cleared for development in six days.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 →
Hilltop HomesiteHorseshoe Bay: one acre opened for a build with a view.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 →
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 Cuero we cover DeWitt County and the country around it: Yorktown, Westhoff, Nordheim, Thomaston, and Meyersville. Close by we also serve Gonzales, Yoakum, Hallettsville, and Seguin. Somewhere else in south Texas? 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.