PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and pasture reclamation across Sanger, TX and north Denton County. We take redcedar and brush off working pasture, open fence lines you can rebuild, and leave a mulch mat that holds sandy ground together.
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Land clearing in Sanger, Texas is working ground work. North Denton County sits where the Cross Timbers sand meets the blackland edge, and you can see the change in the trees: post oak and blackjack on the sandy rises, elm and hackberry down in the heavier bottoms, and eastern redcedar coming up through anything that has not been grazed or mowed in a decade.
Around Sanger, Krum, Aubrey and Bolivar we handle pasture reclamation, redcedar and brush removal, fence line corridors, hay meadow edges, homesite and barn pad clearing, and storm cleanup. Forestry mulching grinds everything in place, which on sandy Cross Timbers ground matters more than people think: bare sand moves the first time it rains hard, and the mulch mat is what holds it while the grass comes back.
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 Sanger, Krum, Aubrey, Bolivar, and north 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 pasture clearing in north Texas Cross Timbers country. For a full job written up start to finish, see our 125 acre pasture reclamation in Elgin, overgrown ground put back to work, and our 9 acre reclamation in Dale finished in two days on site.
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 move 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.
Pierce cleared 36 acres for us in Spicewood, Texas. Will the operator was absolutely brilliant. Great comms / delivered as promised. Both Cedar eater and excavator work was top!
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These guys are top notch. They cleared a ton of land filled with branches from the recent ice storm. Their equipment is top grade and very friendly responsive service.
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Great company with equipment to handle any size job!
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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 Sanger city limits, clearing tied to a build runs through the normal process, and floodplain rules apply along Clear Creek and the drainages feeding Ray Roberts. We flag anything that needs attention when we quote.
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, for heavy cedar and bigger acreage. Send acreage and photos and we will get you a real number, usually the same day.
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 also tell you honestly what regrowth looks like and when a follow up pass makes sense.
It can if you scrape it, which is the main argument for mulching on Cross Timbers sand rather than dozing and raking. The ground cover goes down as a mulch mat that holds the soil through the first hard rain and breaks down into the grass. We do not leave bare sand on a slope.
No. What fills in around Sanger 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.
Yes, and it is one of the most useful days you can buy. We cut a corridor wide enough for you or a fence crew to work both sides, take the cedar and elm out of the wire, and grind it 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 Sanger 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. 57 projects documented across Texas so far.
See all our documented projectsFrom Sanger we cover north Denton County: Krum, Aubrey, Pilot Point, and Krugerville. Close by we also serve Ponder, Justin, and Decatur. Somewhere else in north Texas? Browse every area we serve or just call.
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.