PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
When a utility, pipeline operator, or GC needs a right of way clearing company that can field real iron and hit a written spec, proof matters more than pitch. Ours is public: 127 acres cleared for the LCRA in 37 days, a failed solar site brought back to spec after other contractors could not, and ten machines fielded on a single project. Statewide, insured, documented, and bid in machine days you can audit.
Right of way clearing is the removal of trees, brush, and vegetation from the corridors that carry infrastructure: power lines, pipelines, roads, rail, and utility easements. The work keeps a corridor accessible, inspectable, and safe, and on new construction it prepares the alignment for the crews that follow.
Clearing the alignment ahead of transmission, pipeline, or road crews: full removal to spec, mulched in place or windrowed per the plan, staked and signed off section by section.
Established corridors grow back. Cyclical ROW clearing services keep vegetation off the wire and the easement walkable, priced by the mile or by machine day for utility and pipeline operators.
When weather drops timber across a corridor, access comes first. Our machines open blocked easements and access roads fast, then finish the re-clear on the same mobilization.
Looking for a right of way clearing company with documented corridor work? Start with the sectors below, or go straight to the 127 acre LCRA project we publish in full.
Transmission, pipeline, distribution, energy, and access work, run by one insured crew with its own fleet and a public project record.
New-build corridors and reclears under and around the lines: mulched to spec, danger trees handled on plan, clearances documented. Our crews have worked alongside utility and GC operations safely on documented projects, and the LCRA has already been a client.
New pipeline corridors cut to survey and existing ROW brought back from regrowth. Centerline respected, width held, and the corridor handed over on schedule, because pipeline math punishes late clearing worse than almost any trade.
Cycle maintenance for co-ops and municipal utilities: feeders and laterals mulched back to spec with member relations kept friendly and pricing that makes annual programs plannable. The Weiler and the Barkos were built for exactly this work.
Gen-tie corridors, collector routes, and full-site clearing for energy projects. Four documented solar sites totaling over 2,200 acres, including a spec rescue other contractors failed, make us one of the most experienced solar clearing crews in Texas.
County road work, access easements, survey lines, and ranch corridors: cleared, grubbed where the spec calls for roots out, and usable the day we leave. Our grubbing crew handles the root-out specs in house, and fence line corridors are their own trade here.
When the corridor is down, speed is the spec. Our documented storm work includes San Gabriel flood-debris clearing and post-storm cleanup across Williamson County, mobilized fast with the same insured crews and iron.
ROW work is scope priced off the plans and the corridor walk: machines, production days, mobilization, and disposal method, each its own line. We bid from the same published day-rate logic that runs our whole operation, which means your estimator can check our arithmetic, and change orders need a reason, not a habit. Plans and spec to 512-400-2693 start the number.
The spec first: a four-inch mulch spec and a finish-grade spec are different jobs. Then terrain, access points and landowner gates, wet ground and creek crossings, danger-tree counts, and whether material stays as mulch, windrows, or leaves entirely. Every factor is walked, counted, and written before mobilization, the same discipline that let us bring a failed site back to spec on time.
Send the alignment sheets, spec, and timeline. We come back with a real production estimate in machine days, not a placeholder number that grows later.
Machines, production days, mobilization, and disposal, line by line against the spec. Auditable against our published day-rate logic.
Access points, gates, wet crossings, danger trees, and the ground truth the drawings missed. Bids written after the walk are bids that hold. None of this happens until you have approved the estimate.
The fleet arrives sized to the corridor: mulchers for production, excavators for selective and danger-tree work, support iron as the spec demands.
Daily progress you can see and photograph, corridor held to width, spec checked as we go, landowner gates closed behind us every night.
The corridor gets walked against the spec with your inspector before we demobilize. What the LCRA signed off on, yours can too.
Corridor work is a production business, and production is a fleet question. Ours is documented on public project pages: Tigercat M726G and Barko 930B mulchers for line production, the big Weiler for selective corridors, Cat 320 excavators with skeleton buckets for sifting and danger-tree work, and a Komatsu D61 for the dirt side. Ten machines worked our largest single site at once, for 242 consecutive days, without missing the schedule.
That depth is what lets us commit to utility timelines and mean it. When a machine needs service, the corridor does not stop; when the spec tightens, the right iron is already in the fleet. The 127 LCRA acres wrapped in 37 days because the machine count matched the math on day one, and that is how we bid every corridor since.
Public project pages with acreage, timelines, machines, and photos. This is the record we bid against.
A corridor mulched to a loose spec and one mulched to four-inch material are different jobs with different day counts, and the contractors who bid them the same are the ones who abandon sites. We learned the spec business the hard way to fake: brought in after others failed, sifting and regrinding a 142 acre site until the GC signed off, on time. Every bid we write starts by reading the spec like it will be enforced, because it should be.
A transmission or pipeline corridor crosses dozens of private gates, and the operator’s reputation rides with the clearing crew. Our rules are simple and non-negotiable: gates closed behind us, stock respected, access as agreed and never beyond it, and complaints headed off by behavior instead of managed after. Utilities keep score on this, and our score is why we get called back.
Texas corridor schedules die in creek bottoms and tank margins. We plan the wet segments first: cross when the window allows, sequence around the forecast, and keep production moving on the dry stretches instead of parking the fleet. It is ordinary discipline, and it is why our documented timelines read the way they do.
Mulched brush comes back on a schedule the species sets, and a smart ROW program plans the cycle instead of rediscovering it. Where the spec allows root-out, our grubbing side stretches the cycle by years on mesquite ground; where it calls for mulch, we price the maintenance interval honestly so the program budget is real.
When the San Gabriel flooded, the crews that cleared the debris were the ones already known and already insured, ours among them, documented. Operators who qualify their storm-response bench before storm season get corridors back faster. We are easy to qualify: COI on request, public project record, and iron that is already in Texas.
I cannot say enough good things about my experience working with Pierce Land Clearing. We have a large piece of very heavily wooded and overgrown property and their equipment was able to clear a clean, wide road and open several acres.
Jenna Kelly-Landes, Google review
Preston and all the folks at Pierce were absolutely great to work with. The job was done on schedule and as quoted, and done well. Price was very fair as well. Highly recommend Pierce Land Clearing.
David Madeksho, Google review
These guys are the rockstars of the land clearing business. Arrived early, carefully listened to my wishes, and then went to town. So fast, efficient, and professional.
tim pham, Google review
Based in Austin, fielded statewide. Documented projects run from the Brazos Valley to Brown County, and corridors travel, so do we.
ROW work is scope priced from the plans and a corridor walk: spec, terrain, access, danger-tree counts, and disposal method set the machine days, and the bid lists them line by line. Our published day-rate logic keeps the arithmetic auditable, and plans sent to 512-400-2693 get a real production estimate, not a placeholder.
Both directly and as a sub to GCs and primes. The LCRA has been a client on a documented 127 acre corridor, and our GC work includes a spec rescue delivered on time after other contractors failed the site. COI and references on request.
That is our documented specialty: the Miranda project existed because a prior contractor could not hit the spec, and we sifted, reground, and delivered it signed off in 16 days. Spec compliance is a machine-and-method question, and we own both.
Working scopes typically see iron within a few weeks of a signed contract, faster on storm response. The fleet is Texas-based, ten machines deep on documented work, and does not need to be sourced when the schedule starts.
As a standing discipline: access exactly as agreed, gates closed nightly, stock respected, and issues surfaced to the operator before they become complaints. Corridor clearing is guest work on private land and we behave like it.
Yes, reclears and cycle maintenance for pipeline and distribution ROW both, priced so annual programs are plannable. Where the spec allows root-out, our grubbing crew stretches the regrowth cycle by years.
Statewide for real scopes. Documented projects already run from the Brazos Valley to Brown County, transport is a written line item, and multi-week corridors carry it easily.
Send the plans and spec, or just the corridor and the timeline. You get a production estimate in machine days, a fleet that is already in Texas, and a project record you can verify before you call references.
Right of way work we have documented recently: a mile and a half of fence line at Leesville and 8 acres of fence line right of way at Rusk. Each one is written up with the day count, the machine used and what it cost.
