2 Acre Pasture Clearing in San Marcos, Texas

Two acres outside San Marcos opened up for cattle. Brush and invasive trees were grubbed out with a dozer and the piles mulched on site. The oaks stayed where they were, for shade. One day on site.

Cleared ground under live oaks left standing for shade after brush removal for cattle pasture in San Marcos Texas

Brush where the grass should be

The owner wanted to plow and plant new ground for cattle. What was there instead was brush and invasive trees thick enough that there was no grass underneath worth speaking of. On this kind of ground the problem is not the trees you can see, it is the root systems that come back the following spring if you only cut the tops.

Grub it out, then mulch the piles

The Cat D1 dozer grubbed the brush and the invasive trees, roots and all, rather than shearing them off at the ground. That is what stops them coming back. The material got pushed into piles and the Tigercat M726G mulched the piles down on site, so nothing had to be burned or hauled off.

The mulch stays on the ground and breaks down into the soil the new grass is going into.

The oaks stayed

The client wanted the oaks left in place so the cattle would have shade through the summer, and that is how it was done. Clearing for pasture does not mean clearing everything. Working around established trees takes more care and a slower pass, but a pasture with shade in it is worth more to a cow than a few extra square feet of grass.

Before and after

Land clearing around San Marcos

We work the country around San Marcos regularly, across Hays County and the counties next to it.