PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, cedar removal, and forestry mulching services across Johnson City, TX and Blanco County. Our crews take cedar off the Pedernales country, give the springs room to run, and open homesites across LBJ’s home ground. Whether you need a few acres selectively cleared or a whole tract opened up, you get one crew, transparent day rates, and a real number before we ever start.
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Land clearing in Johnson City, Texas is spring country work. Every ridge of cedar taken off Blanco County ground gives water back to the Pedernales, grass back to the pastures, and views back to the people who bought here for them. Our high horsepower dedicated mulchers grind the old cedar where it stands, and the skid steers finish homesites, driveways, and defensible space clean.
Around Johnson City, Hye, Round Mountain, and Sandy we handle cedar removal and pasture reclamation, view clearing, homesite and driveway clearing on the 290 corridor, defensible space and fire fuel reduction, fence line clearing, and hunting land improvement. 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 Johnson City quotes done the same day, whether your place is on the river, up toward Round Mountain, or out the wine road toward Hye. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Johnson City, Blanco, Hye, Round Mountain, and all of Blanco 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 granite crushed and milled on site into base material for drives, pads, and ranch roads.
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 cedar and underbrush clearing on Hill Country ranch ground in the counties surrounding Johnson City, the same limestone, the same cedar, and the same machines. The project carousel below leads with our written up hilltop homesite clear at Horseshoe Bay, one county north.
Most recent Blanco 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 heavy the cedar is, slope and rock, what stays, and access. Transport to Blanco County 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.
Absolutely outstanding quality work by Pierce Land Clearing. Two days into the clearing the operator became ill and with no delays a new operator was dispatched to complete the job on schedule. Without a doubt, would use them again.
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We were extremely pleased with the results on the land clearing that was done to our property. I had called around to several other companies for bids and PLC was the most reasonable, responsive, and customer oriented.
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Fast response to my inquiries. Great to work with! They went above and beyond to help me out with some root balls and lots of trees from the ice storm. We will be using them again.
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Blanco County is unincorporated outside the small city limits, and clearing your own land needs no permit. The considerations that come up are floodplain along the Pedernales and the Blanco, oak wilt best practices when trimming oaks, and the state park and LBJ ranch boundaries for neighboring properties. 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 cedar and bigger acreage. Send photos or onX pins and you will usually have a number the same day.
The Pedernales country answers that better than we can. Mature cedar drinks year round and intercepts rain before it touches the soil, and Blanco County ranchers who clear their cedar watch seeps and springs come back within a few wet seasons. It is the highest return work this county offers.
That is the standard Hill Country job and the photos on this page show it: cedar out from under the canopy, oaks untouched. You flag what stays, we grind what goes, and the finished ground looks like the parkland this country used to be.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the thin limestone soil and holds moisture through the dry months. There are no burn piles waiting on a burn ban, and haul off is generally not needed.
Blanco County sells its views, and cedar steals them. We take the cedar between your place and the country, keep the frame oaks, and leave clean ground. Send a photo from your porch and we can usually quote it from that.
All the time. Johnson City and the 290 wine corridor are filling with five to twenty acre places, and the skid steer mulchers clear homesites, driveways, and defensible space around new builds in a day or two.
Johnson City sits in the middle of our Hill Country loop between Dripping Springs, Blanco, and Marble Falls. 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 Johnson City quotes done the same day. Flag the oaks and views you care about and we will price around them.
Hilltop HomesiteHorseshoe Bay: one acre opened for a build with a view.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 →
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 →
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 Johnson City we cover Hye, Round Mountain, Sandy, and the 290 wine corridor. Close by we also serve Blanco, Dripping Springs, Marble Falls, Horseshoe Bay, and Spicewood. Somewhere else in the Hill Country? 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.