PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, cedar removal, and forestry mulching services across Gatesville, TX and the Leon River country. Our crews open cedar breaks, reclaim pastures, and clear homesites at ranch scale. Tell us what you want kept and what you want gone, and you get a straight day rate quote and a crew that shows up when they said they would.
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Land clearing in Gatesville, Texas is cedar work at ranch scale. The breaks that have been building along the Leon River ridges for forty years do not come out with a tractor and a weekend, they come out with high horsepower dedicated mulchers that grind old cedar where it stands. That is what we run, backed by skid steer mulchers for the fence lines, pads, and tight spots.
Around Gatesville, Oglesby, Jonesboro, and Purmela we handle cedar removal and pasture reclamation, fence line and right of way clearing, barn pad and homesite clearing, storm damage cleanup, and brush work around tanks and working pens. Everything grinds in place into mulch, so there are no burn piles waiting on a burn ban, and haul off is generally not needed with mulching.
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 Gatesville quotes done the same day, whether your place is on the river, up a draw, or backed against the post. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Gatesville, Oglesby, Jonesboro, Purmela, and all of Coryell 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.
Limestone and caliche crushed and milled on site into base material for ranch roads, pads, and crossings.
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 our ranch work in the neighboring counties, barn site clearing, storm damage mulching, and pasture ground, with the same machines and operators we bring up the Leon River. The project links below include full write ups from Hico and Morgan, both within an hour of Gatesville.
Most recent Coryell County area project: June 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 place is different, so price comes down to a few things: acreage, how old the cedar is, what stays, and access. We quote the whole job 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.
Very polite and did an amazing job get my fence line cleared up… will be having them back out to clear up my back 40
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These guys take a lot of pride in what they do. This doesn't even look like the same property. The operator walked the property with me before he started and the outcome was exactly what I'd hoped for. Will definitely recommend to anyone that asks. Great job guys, much appreciated.
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I highly recommend Pierce Land Clearing. Jonathan was my operator and was very efficient and didn't waste any time clearing my project. He listened to what I wanted done and got to work. I will use this company again.
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Outside the Gatesville city limits, Coryell County has no permit office between you and clearing your own land. Inside city limits the rules are light and mostly touch development projects. The practical considerations are floodplain along the Leon River and its creeks, and Fort Cavazos boundaries if your place borders the post. 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 the heavy cedar breaks and bigger acreage. A homesite or barn pad is usually a day or two, and whole-pasture cedar work scales from there. Send photos or onX pins and you will usually have a number the same day.
That is the main event in Coryell County. Cedar takes the ridges and fence lines first, then works into the pasture until the grass gives up. Mulching grinds it all in place, the mulch protects the soil through the summer, and the grass comes back through it. No root plowing, no washouts, no burn piles.
Yes, and the Leon River country shows it as well as anywhere. Mature cedar intercepts rain before it hits the ground and pulls moisture year round. Take the cedar off a draw and the seeps come back, the tank holds longer, and the grass takes the ridge again.
Yes. Downed trees, lightning struck trunks, and wind thrown limbs all grind where they lie, and we have done exactly that kind of cleanup on ranch ground in the county next door. One machine, one pass, and the mess is a mulch layer instead of a season of chainsaw weekends.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the soil and feeds the grass as it breaks down. There are no brush piles waiting on a burn ban to lift, and haul off is generally not needed.
All the time. We clear and grind to a finish that dirt work can follow immediately, barn pads, arenas, homesites, and driveways included. The photos on this page include a barn site we opened up on ranch ground.
Gatesville sits in the middle of country we cross every week between Waco and the Hill Country. Most jobs go on the calendar within a couple of weeks.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked will get most Gatesville quotes done the same day. Mention gates and low water crossings and we will plan machines accordingly.
6 Acres Mulched CleanMorgan: downed trees and brush ground in place.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 →
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 →
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 Gatesville we cover Oglesby, Jonesboro, Purmela, Turnersville, and the ranch country along the Leon. Close by we also serve Waco, Valley Mills, Evant, Hamilton, and Meridian. Somewhere else in Central 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.