PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Corridor work is not acreage work. It is a long thin job with an access problem at both ends, a landowner on either side, and a standard somebody is going to inspect against. We cleared 127 acres for the LCRA on a public utility timeline and wrapped it in 37 days.
A hundred acres in a block is one mobilization and a machine that never stops. A hundred acres in a corridor is a machine that is always near an edge, always near somebody’s fence, and constantly repositioning. Corridor work costs more per acre than block work and any contractor who quotes it the same has not done much of it.
The usual constraint is not the brush, it is getting a lowboy to the start of the run and then getting the machine off partway along when a creek or a road crossing says no. We look at access before we look at acreage on corridor work, and it is the single thing most likely to move a quote.
Utility rows come with a clearance spec and an inspector. We have cleared to a utility standard for the LCRA and to fine mulch specs across thousands of acres. Tell us the standard in writing and it drives machine choice and pass count rather than being discovered at walkdown.
Corridor work happens across other people’s property, and the complaints that stop a job are almost never about the clearing. Gates left open, ruts in a pasture, mulch thrown over a fence. Our operators are used to working easements where the landowner is watching, because most of them are.
Cutting corridor through standing growth to a specified width and clearance. Mulched in place so nothing has to be hauled off an easement, which on a long run is the difference between one machine and a truck fleet. See right of way clearing.
Rows that have closed in since the last cycle. Regrowth is faster to mulch than virgin corridor and it is usually the cheapest work on a utility programme, provided nobody lets it go long enough to become a clearing job again.
Getting a bucket truck or a crane to a pole or a pad in February, not just in August. Cut, crown, base rock and drainage. See access road construction.
Where a foundation, a pad or a pole hole is going in, roots have to come out rather than be ground off at grade. Quoted as its own line because it is a dozer or excavator rather than a mulcher. See grubbing.
Full write ups with acreage, machines and day counts.
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.
Jenna Kelly-Landes, Google review
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
Just had a fence line for a 50 acre tract cleared. Some ravines, trees, trash trees. It is amazing! Will with his magic machine cleared that path and much more. Stumps, dead trees, things that the pioneers could have only dreamed of.
Jeannie Thurmond, Google review
Yes, statewide, and it is a substantial part of our contract work. New corridor, easement reclearing and access to structures. The 127 acre job we did for the LCRA ran on a public utility timeline and wrapped in 37 days. Full detail on the right of way clearing page.
In machine days at published rates, the same as everything else we run, but expect corridor work to cost more per acre than the same acreage in a block. A machine in a long thin easement spends a lot of its day repositioning and working near an edge. Access is the biggest single variable.
Yes. Send the standard in writing with the quote request. It drives machine choice and pass count, so a spec supplied at walkdown rather than at quote is how a job ends up rebid. We have cleared to a utility standard for the LCRA and to fine mulch specs across thousands of acres.
It is mulched in place and stays there. On a corridor that matters more than anywhere else, because hauling off a long thin site means a truck route down the easement and a landowner watching it happen. No load counts and no disposal tickets either.
Yes, and most utility work runs that way. You hold the client and the schedule and we clear to a written scope inside it. We are used to producing insurance certificates and safety documentation before mobilization rather than being chased for them.
Yes. Cut, crown, base rock and drainage, so a bucket truck reaches the structure in February rather than only in August. It is quoted as its own line because it is dirt work rather than clearing.
Carefully, because that is what actually stops corridor jobs. Gates closed, ruts avoided, mulch kept off fences. Our operators are used to easements where somebody is watching, and on most rows somebody is.
Statewide. Documented jobs run from Brownsville to Weatherford and out to Tilden and Brady. Mobilization is a written line reflecting the distance rather than a surprise at the end.
Send the corridor length, the width and clearance spec, and where a lowboy can reach it from. You get machine days and a written quote, plus the insurance documentation your prime contract needs. Call 512-400-2693.
