PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and underbrush removal services across Giddings, TX and Lee County. Our crews grind out yaupon thickets, reclaim pastures, and open fence lines in post oak country we work every week on the 290 corridor. One call gets you honest day rates, a real timeline, and a local crew that leaves your good trees standing.
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Land clearing in Giddings, Texas means beating yaupon on its home field. The post oak savannah between Bastrop and Brenham grows understory brush faster than any country we work, and the only economical way to turn a thicket back into land is to grind it where it stands. That is exactly what our forestry mulchers do, at $3,000 to $4,000 a day depending on the machine the job needs.
Around Giddings, Lexington, Dime Box, and Lincoln we handle yaupon and cedar removal, pasture reclamation, fence line and property line clearing, homesite and barn pad clearing, hunting land improvement, and right of way work for the oil field and utilities. Everything grinds in place into mulch, so there are no burn piles, 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 Giddings quotes done the same day, whether your place is in town, out toward Dime Box, or down a lease road. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Giddings, Lexington, Dime Box, Lincoln, and all of Lee 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.
Rock and caliche crushed and milled on site into base material for ranch roads, pads, and lease access.
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 clearing work in the post oak country around Giddings, including fence line and pasture jobs on the same sandy ground. The project carousel below leads with our written up 3 acre homesite clear in Lexington, fifteen minutes up the road, with the full photo story behind the link. Our Lee County page covers the wider county too.
Most recent Lee County area 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 place is different, so price comes down to a few things: acreage, how solid the yaupon is, what stays, and access. Transport along 290 is a short hop for us, 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.
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Lee County is unincorporated outside the city limits and has no permit requirement for clearing your own land, which covers nearly everything we do here. Inside the Giddings city limits the rules are light and mostly touch development. Floodplain considerations apply along Yegua Creek and its branches, and lease roads have their own operator rules. 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 solid yaupon thickets and bigger acreage. Most Lee County jobs land between one and four days depending on how solid the brush is. Send photos or onX pins and you will usually have a number the same day.
Yaupon is the defining fight in Lee County. It fills the post oak understory into a solid wall that deer cannot walk through and grass cannot grow under. Mulching grinds the whole thicket in place, and the mulch layer slows the comeback while the grass gets its footing. It is the one tool that actually wins against yaupon at acreage scale.
Yes. Fields around Giddings that ran cattle twenty years ago have gone up in brush, and mulching brings them back without stripping the sandy topsoil. We grind the growth, the mulch protects the ground, and coastal or native grass takes it back the next growing season.
Fence line work is constant out here, and the photos on this page show it: brush ground off both sides of the wire so you can see the fence, fix the fence, and string new wire without fighting a thicket. Property lines, cross fences, and road frontage all clean up fast.
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 burn piles and no haul off trucks, which keeps the price down and the county roads clean.
Yes. Lee County has active leases and the corridors that come with them, and we clear right of way, pad access, and pipeline routes with the insurance and the pace that contract work demands.
Giddings sits right on 290 between our Bastrop County home ground and the Brenham country we work constantly. Most jobs get on the calendar within a couple of weeks.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked will get most Giddings quotes done the same day. Flag the oaks you want to keep and we will price around them.
3 Acre HomesiteLexington: cedar removed, pad ready for the builder.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 →
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 →
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 →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.