PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and pasture reclamation across Ponder, TX and west Denton County. We clear redcedar off small acreage, open fence lines you can rebuild, and leave a mulch mat that holds sandy ground together.
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Land clearing in Ponder, Texas is small acreage work on sandy ground. West Denton County runs Cross Timbers loam over sandstone, with post oak and blackjack on the rises and eastern redcedar coming up through every pasture that has had a few quiet years. Most places out here are between five and fifty acres, so this is precision work rather than fleet work, and the machine that fits through your gate matters as much as the one that clears fastest.
Around Ponder, Krum, Justin and Northlake we handle redcedar and brush removal, pasture reclamation, fence line corridors, homesite and barn pad clearing, driveway access, and storm cleanup. Mulching grinds everything in place, which on this sand is the difference between grass coming back and a slope that moves the first time it rains hard.
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, aerials or onX pins get most Denton County quotes done the same day. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Ponder, Krum, Justin, Northlake, and west Denton 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.
Sandstone and caliche crushed and milled on site into base material for drives, barn pads, and pasture 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 and ranch clearing in north Texas Cross Timbers country, the same sandy ground and the same redcedar problem you have here. For a full write up, see our 9 acre pasture reclamation in Dale, two days on site with grass coming back, and our 3 acre selective homesite clearing in Cleburne.
Documented pasture work: 9 acres reclaimed in Dale, two days on site
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 acreage, how thick the cedar and brush are, what stays, and how the machines get through your gates. Transport to Denton 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.
I'm so glad I found Taylor and Bobby to help me clear our land. We were tired paying to rent wood chippers, tractors, shredders, chain saws, etc, and still not being done with the project. Then came Taylor and Bobby. Not only did they do a better job than we could, they did it fast, efficiently, and saved us TIME and MONEY. They did a BEAUTIFUL job and now our land gives us bragging rights. HIGHLY RECOMMEND.
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Taylor is a great owner/operator. I'd recommend him to anyone.
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Rural Denton County clearing on your own land needs no permit, and agricultural work is exempt from most regulation in Texas. Inside Ponder town limits, clearing tied to a build runs through the normal process. If your place carries an agricultural valuation, brush control generally supports it, though a call to the appraisal district is worth making before a big change.
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.
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. Most Ponder work is small acreage, so a day or two on a skid steer is typical.
Yes, and it is the most common call here. Redcedar mulched at the ground with the mat left in place lets grass come back the same season instead of the year after next. We will tell you honestly what regrowth looks like and when a follow up pass makes sense.
No. What fills in around Ponder is eastern redcedar, not the eastern redcedar you get west of I-35. It behaves differently and anybody quoting you a Hill Country cedar job has not looked at your ground.
It can if you scrape it, which is the main argument for mulching on Cross Timbers sand rather than dozing and raking. The material goes down as a mat that holds the soil through the first hard rain and breaks down into the grass.
Yes, and it is one of the most useful days you can buy. We cut a corridor wide enough to work both sides of the wire, take the cedar and elm out of it, and grind everything in place rather than leaving you a windrow.
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.
In thick Cross Timbers 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. You get a day count with the quote.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked get most Ponder quotes done the same day. Mark what stays and we will price it 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. 49 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.