PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and lot clearing across Keene, TX and Johnson County. We mulch mountain cedar out from under the oaks, open homesites and driveways on small acreage, and reclaim pasture that brush has taken back. Documented work ten minutes up the road in Cleburne, honest day rates, and your good trees left standing.
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Land clearing in Keene, Texas is Johnson County cedar work on a smaller canvas. Keene sits just south of Cleburne on 67, and the ground is the same fight we documented ten minutes up the road: mountain cedar crowding into the post oaks and live oaks, greenbriar and yaupon closing in underneath, and mesquite working across the pasture ground east of town. The difference here is scale. Most Keene properties run from a town lot to twenty or thirty acres, so this is precision work rather than fleet work.
Around Keene, Cleburne, Alvarado, and Joshua we handle cedar removal and fire fuel reduction, understory mulching that leaves the hardwoods standing, homesite and acreage clearing for the builders working south out of Fort Worth, driveway corridors, fence lines, and pasture reclamation. Forestry mulching grinds everything in place, so there are no burn piles, no haul trucks running through a small town, and no scraped dirt where your grass should be.
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 County quotes done the same day. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week, and if Saturday scheduling matters on your place, tell us and we will work around it.
A full service land clearing company serving Keene, Cleburne, Alvarado, Joshua, and Johnson 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 drives, pads, and acreage 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, plot clearing, 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 are from our cedar clearing in Johnson County, and we documented a full job just up 67 in Cleburne. Our 3 acre selective homesite clearing project shows exactly what a Keene acreage job looks like start to finish: shade trees flagged and kept, everything else mulched, build ready in a single day.
Documented ten minutes away: 3 acre selective homesite clearing in Cleburne
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 property is different, so price comes down to a few things: acreage, how thick the cedar and greenbriar are, what stays, and access. Transport to Johnson 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.
From the moment I saw this forestry machine on their website, I not only believed it would get the job done but I desperately wanted one. To say it got the job done is a gross understatement. Cedar trees have no chance!
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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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I called them after having bad service with another company. Preston explained the cost of everything up front. He answered all my questions and concerns. I emailed a Google map of the area and he got back with me within hours.
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Rural Johnson County clearing on your own land needs no permit, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside Keene city limits, clearing tied to a build runs through the normal permitting process, and floodplain rules apply along the creeks feeding the Nolan River. 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 here gets greasy after rain, so we watch the forecast 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. Most Keene properties are a single skid steer day. Send photos and acreage for a real number, usually the same day.
Ten minutes up 67, and we published the whole job. Our Cleburne project write up shows 3 acres selectively cleared with the shade trees kept and everything else mulched, finished in a day. The photos on this page are from our Johnson County cedar work.
That is the Johnson County job and it is what we do best. Ashe juniper pushes up into the county from the Hill Country, crowds the post oaks and live oaks, and closes in pasture. We flag the keepers, mulch the cedar and greenbriar out from under them, and the oaks stay exactly where they are.
Yes. Skid steer mulchers are the right tool for a town lot: no burning, no chipper running all day next to a neighbor, and no line of trucks hauling brush out. We walk the access with you first and plan where the machine goes before the trailer arrives.
We answer the phone seven days a week and we are happy to work around Saturday in Keene if that matters on your place. Just tell us when you set the date and it is not a problem.
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.
In Johnson County cedar a dedicated mulcher covers 1.5 to 2.5 acres a day depending on density, and open pasture runs faster. Skid steers average half to three quarters of an acre. We give you a day count with the quote so you can plan around it.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked get most Keene quotes done the same day. Flag your keep trees and we will price the work without you waiting on a site visit.
Every job we publish carries the acreage, the machines, the days on site and what it actually cost. 41 projects documented across Texas so far.
See all our documented projectsQuick 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.