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CLEARING
Transmission corridors, pipelines, and the access that keeps them serviceable: this is production clearing with rules attached. Here is how utility right of way work actually runs in Texas, from a contractor with a 127 acre LCRA corridor on the books.
Right of way clearing keeps vegetation away from energized lines, buried pipe, and the access roads crews need in an outage. For transmission corridors that means a clear floor and managed edge so trees cannot reach the conductors in a storm; for pipelines it means a visible, patrollable corridor; for both it means machines that can work miles of easement at production pace without damaging what the easement crosses.
The stakes are not abstract in Texas. Storm outages, wildfire risk, and inspection requirements all trace back to corridor condition, which is why utilities and their EPC contractors treat re-clearing cycles as maintenance, not landscaping. Our right of way clearing page covers the full service; this piece is about how the utility side of it actually works.
Our largest published right of way job is a 127 acre LCRA corridor clearing near Elgin, run at fleet pace with dedicated mulchers. On a separate Elgin tract we cleared ten acres under an energized LCRA line where the requirement was absolute: no contact with the live conductors. That constraint set machine position and head height for every pass along the corridor, and it is the kind of rule utility work is made of.
Mulching earns its place on corridors because it leaves nothing to haul: the brush becomes ground cover that holds the easement floor against erosion, and the corridor is patrollable the day the machine leaves. Where stumps must come out for access roads or pad sites, the grubbing crew follows on the same mobilization.
Contractors bidding energy infrastructure work need three things from a clearing sub: pace they can schedule against, pricing they can put in a bid, and a paper trail. Our rates are published, skid steer mulching at $3,000 a day with transport included and high horsepower machines at $4,000 a day plus transport, and every documented job publishes acreage, days, and cost on the projects page. Corridor experience covers new construction clearing, maintenance re-clearing on cycle, and storm response access, detailed by sector on the ROW page. For generation-side work, our renewable energy clearing record covers five named Texas solar farms.
The easement document sets the width, commonly 50 to 150 feet depending on voltage. We clear to the easement line and manage the edge growth the utility specifies, never beyond it.
Yes, under the constraint that governs everything: no contact with live conductors. Machine position and head height are planned to the line, and the ground under the wire gets worked slower and more deliberately than open corridor.
Mulching for the corridor floor: no piles, no burn windows, immediate access. Dozing and grubbing where access roads, pads, or pole sites need roots out. Most corridor contracts use both, one mobilization.
Both. Utilities and EPCs hire us for corridor miles; landowners hire us when an easement crossing their land needs the edges cleaned or their side of the corridor reclaimed.
Send the alignment and the spec. Published rates, documented production history, 7 days a week.