PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and underbrush removal services across Smithville, TX and the Bastrop County river country. Our crews clean out lots, protect the pines, and grind down river bottom brush, with our own in-town job photos on this page. Whether you need a few acres selectively cleared or a whole tract opened up, you get one crew, transparent day rates, and a real number before we ever start.
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Land clearing in Smithville, Texas comes with our own local photos attached: in-town lots we cleaned from overgrown to usable, pictured on this page, plus the documented 40 acre full clear at Bastrop up the road. This county remembers its fires, and clearing in the Lost Pines means understory out, pines protected, and no burn piles anywhere.
Around Smithville, Upton, West Point, and Winchester we handle in-town lot clearing, defensible space and understory work in the pines, yaupon and cedar removal, pasture reclamation on the sandy river country, fence line clearing, and homesite prep. Everything grinds in place into mulch, and haul off is generally not needed with mulching.
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 or onX pins get most Smithville quotes done the same day, whether your place is in town, up in the pines, or down the river toward Winchester. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Smithville, Upton, West Point, Winchester, and the 71 corridor through eastern Bastrop 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.
Rock and caliche crushed and milled on site into base material for drives, pads, and river access.
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 lot clearing photos on this page are from our own work in Smithville, and the carousel below leads with the written up 40 acre full clear at Bastrop, fifteen minutes up the highway. Between the two, this stretch of the Colorado is as documented as any ground we work.
Most recent Bastrop County project: July 2026
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 a few things: lot size or acreage, how solid the growth is, what stays, and access. Smithville is home range, 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 land was a pleasure to deal with and they do a great job. Don't make the mistake of hiring a skid steer to make a mess and then hiring the big boys (Pierce) to come clean it up. My place looks fantastic now!
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Taylor, Preston, and the machine operator Steve were consummate professionals every step of the way. The bidding process, delivery of the machine, and frequent communication during the heavy rain were all handled well.
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Super friendly and efficient! Got the job done in one day, clearing out all the dead cedar while leaving the pretty oaks. Excellent job, thank you!
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Outside the Smithville city limits, Bastrop County has no permit requirement for clearing your own land. Inside city limits the rules are light and mostly touch development, and the fire history in the pines makes defensible space work welcome everywhere. Floodplain rules apply along the Colorado. We flag anything that needs attention when we quote the job.
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: sandy loam over clay drains on top and holds underneath, so the high ground works sooner after rain than the bottoms do. 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 solid thickets and bigger acreage. Most Smithville lots run a day. Send photos and you will usually have a real number the same day.
Yes, and the photos on this page are from that exact work: lots we cleaned out right in Smithville, overgrowth ground down to usable ground. Add the 40 acre full clear we documented at Bastrop, fifteen minutes up 71, and this stretch of the river is proven territory.
Carefully and often. The loblolly country between Smithville and Bastrop is unlike anywhere else in Central Texas, and clearing here means taking the yaupon and cedar understory while protecting the pines, especially with the fire history this county carries. Defensible space work in the pines is some of the most important clearing we do.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the sandy soil and holds moisture. There is no burning, which matters in a county that remembers its fires, and haul off is generally not needed.
Yes. The sandy loam river country grows grass fast once the brush is off and the mulch is holding moisture. Our 40 acre Bastrop clear shows exactly what the finish looks like at scale.
All the time, and the photos on this page show it. Smithville’s in-town lots grow up fast when they sit, and we clean them to buildable, mowable condition in a day, no burn piles on the block, no debris trucks through the neighborhood.
Smithville is home range on the 71 corridor between Bastrop and La Grange. Most jobs get on the calendar within a couple of weeks, and single lots often slot in sooner.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked will get most Smithville quotes done the same day. Flag the pines and oaks you want to keep and we will price around them.
Every job we publish carries the acreage, the machines, the days on site and what it actually cost. 46 projects documented across Texas so far.
We build ponds and stock tanks here too. On the sandy ground across Bastrop County the first question is whether there is clay within digging depth, which is where our Smithville pond page starts.
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.