PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing works Mingus and the old coal country of western Palo Pinto County. Rough ground, mesquite and cedar through the pasture, and access that has to be cut before anything else happens. Honest day rates and a real machine.
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Land clearing in Mingus, Texas is western Palo Pinto ranch work. Broken ground, mesquite and cedar through the pasture, and access lanes that usually have to be cut first.
Around Mingus, Gordon, Strawn and Santo we handle senderos and access lanes, mesquite and cedar removal, pasture reclamation, fence line clearing, ranch road corridors, homesite and barn pad prep, and pile grinding. Priced by the machine day, transport shown on the quote.
A full service land clearing company serving Mingus, Gordon, Strawn, Santo, Breckenridge, and Palo Pinto 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.
Caliche and crushed base brought in and spread for ranch roads, barn pads and driveways across Palo Pinto County.
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.
We own our machines rather than renting whatever the yard has that week. Not sure which one your ground needs? Try our cost calculator.
Material over 8 inches, heavy cedar and mesquite. Needs room for an 11 foot machine. How we choose.
Material up to 8 inches. Low ground pressure, tight access, and selective work around the trees you want kept.
The photographs on this page are from clearing work on Texas ground of the same kind. For documented jobs with acreage, machines and day counts, see 800 acres cleared at Brownwood and 6 acres forestry mulched at Morgan.
Documented job: 800 acres cleared at Brownwood
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 the number comes down to acreage, how thick the mesquite, post oak and cedar has gotten, what you want left standing, and how the machines get through your gates. Transport to Palo Pinto County is built into the quote up front, so the number you are given 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 could not be more pleased after hiring them to clear cedars off my land. They did exactly what I needed, and my place now looks amazing. I learned having the right equipment is key, and Pierce Land Clearing has it.
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I think when people undergo such a large project, they have an unrealistic expectation of how it is going to turn out. This was not the case, it turned out to be exactly as I hoped it would. Everybody I have dealt with so far in this company has been great.
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Rural Palo Pinto County clearing on your own land needs no permit, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside Mingus city limits, clearing tied to a build runs through the normal permitting process. If your place carries an agricultural exemption, keeping it is worth a call to the county appraisal district before you change how the ground is used.
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: post oak sand works wet a good deal better than clay does, so we lose fewer days to rain here than crews do east of the Trinity. You get a start window with your quote and a heads up before we roll in.
Priced by the machine day. A high horsepower mulcher is $4,000 per day plus transport, a skid steer mulcher is $3,000 per day with transport included, and dozer or excavator work is $3,000 per day plus transport. One day minimum on every machine. Most jobs around Mingus are one or two days.
Usually yes, and cutting the way in is the first line on the quote. We mulch a lane wide enough for the equipment, which then becomes your access afterward. If the route crosses a draw or needs a crossing built we will say so up front rather than finding it on day one.
Yes. Old push piles grind faster than standing timber because the material is already down, and it saves you a burn permit and a weather window. Nothing gets hauled off.
Rarely. Rough and rocky changes the machine and the pace more than it changes whether it can be done. Steep draws and ledges get worked with a tracked machine and we mulch rather than blade, because scraping thin soil off sandstone leaves you worse off than the brush did.
On rural Palo Pinto County land you own, generally no, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside the Mingus city limit, clearing tied to a build goes through normal permitting. Check before you clear inside the limit.
Cut cedar does not resprout from the stump the way mesquite does, so mulching it is a real fix rather than a delay. What returns is seedlings out of the seed bank and off neighbouring ground, which is a mowing question rather than a reclearing one. Keep after the small stuff and the job holds for years.
Less of a problem here than out on the blackland. Sandy ground around Mingus drains fast and we can usually work within a day or two of rain. Creek bottoms and low ground are the exception and we will say so when we walk it.
Yes, along with the rest of Palo Pinto County. Transport is a written line on the quote reflecting the distance.
It is mulched in place and left as a layer on the soil, which holds ground through a hard rain and slows what tries to come back. No hauling, no burning, no disposal fees.
Every job we publish carries the acreage, the machines, the days on site and what it actually cost. 57 projects documented across Texas so far.
See all our documented projectsFrom Mingus we cover Palo Pinto County: Gordon, Strawn, Santo and Breckenridge. See every area we serve.
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.