PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, cedar removal, and forestry mulching services across Valley Mills, TX and the Bosque valley. Our crews take cedar off the limestone breaks, grind piles where they sit, and put valley pastures back to work. You get our own crew and machines, day rates with no surprises, and a firm answer on cost before we ever hit the ground.
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Land clearing in Valley Mills, Texas is Bosque valley work with a local reference attached: our 6 acre forestry mulching project at Morgan, documented on this site, sits twenty five minutes up the river. Cedar comes off the breaks, piles grind where they sat for years, and the valley pastures go back to carrying cattle.
Around Valley Mills, China Spring, Crawford, and Clifton we handle cedar removal and pasture reclamation, brush pile grinding, storm damage cleanup, fence line and right of way clearing, homesite clearing for the places arriving from the Waco side, and brush work around tanks. There are no burn piles waiting on a burn ban, 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 Valley Mills quotes done the same day, whether your place is in the valley, up on the breaks, or out toward Crawford. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Valley Mills, China Spring, Crawford, Clifton, and the Bosque valley.
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 caliche crushed and milled on site into base material for ranch roads, pads, and crossings.
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.
The carousel below leads with our written up 6 acre forestry mulching project at Morgan, in Bosque County: downed trees and brush ground in place, two days on site, photographed start to finish. The pile grinding on this page is the same kind of work on the same kind of ground.
Most recent Bosque County project: June 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: acreage, how old the cedar is, what stays, and access. We quote the whole job 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.
Awesome experience! Polite, worked with us to get what we want and it looks fantastic! Highly recommend!
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I have been working with Pierce on projects for roughly a year and he has been top notch in all aspects. Taylor is a great communicator and very thorough in his work. Any issue we have had has always been resolved quickly and with all parties in mind.
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Pierce Land Clearing did an amazing job clearing our lot in Liberty Hill. It was wonderful working with them and I would highly recommend them for getting your job done right.
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Outside the Valley Mills city limits, Bosque and McLennan counties have no permit requirement for clearing your own land. The considerations that come up are floodplain along the Bosque River and county road rules about mud and gravel. 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: 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 old cedar and bigger ranch acreage. Send photos or onX pins and you will usually have a number the same day.
Yes, and it is written up on this site: our 6 acre forestry mulching project at Morgan, twenty five minutes up 174, leads the carousel below. The Bosque County loop through Meridian and Clifton crosses Valley Mills regularly.
Bosque County cedar is the old, thick kind on the limestone above the river, and the high horsepower mulchers grind it where it stands, grades included. The oaks and the bluff views stay.
Yes, it is the valley staple. Cedar and brush pull carrying capacity out of the Bosque River pastures year over year, and mulching puts it back with the soil protected under the mulch layer instead of scraped bare.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the soil and feeds the grass. Old stacked piles grind where they sit, exactly like the ones photographed on this page. No burning, and generally no haul off.
Yes. Downed and broken timber grinds where it lies, and our Morgan project up the road was exactly that kind of work, storm downed trees turned into clean mulched ground in two days.
Valley Mills sits where our Waco and Bosque County routes meet. Most jobs get on the calendar within a couple of weeks.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or onX pins with the areas marked will get most Valley Mills quotes done the same day. Mention gates and crossings and we will plan the machines accordingly.
6 Acres Mulched CleanMorgan: downed trees and brush ground in place.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 →
Hilltop HomesiteHorseshoe Bay: one acre opened for a build with a view.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 →
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 Valley Mills we cover the valley and the breaks in every direction. Close by we also serve Waco, Meridian, Clifton, Gatesville, and China Spring. Somewhere else in Central 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.