PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, cedar removal, and forestry mulching services across Spicewood, TX and the Lake Travis hill country. Our crews take cedar off the canyons and open views to the lake, including 36 documented acres cleared on one Spicewood job alone. One call gets you honest day rates, a real timeline, and a local crew that leaves your good trees standing.
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Land clearing in Spicewood, Texas comes with a 36 acre reference attached: a full cedar clear we ran right here, big mulcher and excavator together, delivered as promised. The west end of Lake Travis is steep, rocky, fire-aware country, and mulching fits it exactly, cedar ground where it stands, oaks and views kept, no burn piles anywhere.
Around Spicewood, Briarcliff, Pace Bend, and Double Horn we handle cedar removal and view clearing, defensible space around lake homes, canyon lot clearing, ranch acreage work toward Marble Falls, 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 Spicewood quotes done the same day, whether you are above the lake, on the Pedernales side, or out 71 toward the county line. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Spicewood, Briarcliff, Pace Bend, Double Horn, and the west end of Lake Travis.
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.
Limestone and granite crushed and milled on site into base material for drives, pads, and canyon lot 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, food plots, 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.
Our biggest documented Spicewood work is a 36 acre full cedar clear, big mulcher and excavator together, delivered as promised for a customer who said so publicly afterward. The carousel below leads with our written up hilltop homesite clear at Horseshoe Bay, twenty minutes up the lake road.
Most recent Spicewood area 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 heavy the cedar is, slope and rock, what stays, and access. Spicewood 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 Clearing is a great family-owned and run business. They are very professional and provide timely, reasonable quotes. We have about 5.5 acres. In 2 days, they cleared most cedar, standing dead trees and mulched all at once with their large forestry machine. They also brought their rock crusher which actually pulverizes rocks. Amazing job!
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I called them after having bad service with another company. Preston explained the cost of everything up front. He answered all my questions and concerns. I emailed a Google map of the area and he got back with me within hours.
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Satisfied well beyond expectations! Taylor came in with a very competitive bid and prompt scheduling and was readily available for unforeseen last minute details. He also answered all phone calls and returned emails almost immediately.
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Spicewood is unincorporated, split between Burnet and Travis counties, and there is no permit office for clearing brush on your own land on either side. The considerations that come up are floodplain along the Pedernales and the Colorado, LCRA rules near the waterline, and HOA standards in communities like Briarcliff and Double Horn. We flag exactly what applies 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: the Blackland clay east of I-35 gets greasy after rain, so we watch the weather and schedule around it rather than tearing up your ground. 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. Most Spicewood lots run a day or two. Send photos and you will usually have a real number the same day.
Thirty six acres of it on one job alone: a full cedar clear with both the big mulcher and excavator work, for a customer who reviewed us by name afterward. Spicewood is home range on the lake loop between Bee Cave and Marble Falls, and the photos on this page come from that same Lake Travis country.
That is the signature Spicewood job. We take the cedar between your place and the water or the canyon, keep the oaks that frame it, and leave clean mulched ground. Send a photo from your deck and we can usually quote from it.
Significantly, and Spicewood knows why it matters. Cedar stacked in the draws and against homes is the fuel that carries Hill Country fires, and defensible space clearing around structures is some of the most valuable work we do out here.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the thin soil and holds moisture. There are no burn piles waiting on a burn ban, which this county lives under half the year, and haul off is generally not needed.
Steep and rocky is the Spicewood standard, from the Pedernales breaks to the Krause Springs canyons. Tracked machines handle the grades, and if a slope is genuinely beyond safe machine work we will say so after seeing photos.
Spicewood sits on our lake loop with Bee Cave, Marble Falls, and Horseshoe Bay. 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 Spicewood quotes done the same day. Flag the oaks and views you care about and we will price around them.
Hilltop HomesiteHorseshoe Bay: one acre opened for a build with a view.See the full project →
5 Acres, Trails ReopenedLlano: impassable trails cleared and widened, cedar out.See the full project →
8 Acres, Homesite PrepSan Marcos: pad and driveway graded, cedar mulched for the views.See the full project →
4.2 Acres, SelectiveSan Antonio: heritage trees protected between a highway and new homesites.See the full project →
12 Acres Grubbed in San AntonioSan Antonio: 12 acres grubbed and reclaimed as usable pasture.See the full project →
18 Acres, SelectiveEvant: 18 acres thinned selectively, hardwoods left standing.See the full project →
Hunting Lane ClearingMelvin: hunting lanes cut and a new right of way opened.See the full project →
40 Acres, Full ClearBastrop County: cedar and yaupon off, pasture back in production.See the full project →
12 Acres, SelectiveGeorgetown: cedar out, every oak preserved.See the full project →
127 Acres for the LCRAElgin: a full clear on a public utility timeline, wrapped in 37 days.See the full project →
125 Acres ReclaimedElgin: overgrown pasture put back to work.See the full project →
38 Acre Commercial SiteBrownsville: cleared for development in six days.See the full project →
15 Acres of Solid CedarHico: thick cedar taken down to open ground.See the full project →
9 Acre Pasture ReclamationDale: brush out and grass coming back, two days on site.See the full project →
6 Acres Mulched CleanMorgan: downed trees and brush ground in place.See the full project →
3 Acre HomesiteLexington: cedar removed, pad ready for the builder.See the full project →
Cedar and Fence LinesLometa: three acres cleared with clean fence lines to match.See the full project →
Selective Homesite ClearCleburne: shade trees kept, everything else gone in a day.See the full project →From Spicewood we cover Briarcliff, Pace Bend, Double Horn, and the canyons on both sides of the river. Close by we also serve Marble Falls, Horseshoe Bay, Bee Cave, Burnet, and Johnson City. Somewhere else on the lake? 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.