PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and pasture reclamation services across Yoakum, TX and the surrounding brush country. Our crews clear mesquite, huisache, and overgrown pasture around the leather capital on a loop we run every week. 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 Yoakum, Texas is brush country economics: every acre the mesquite and huisache hold is an acre not feeding cattle, and the leather capital’s ranches have been fighting that math for a century. Our machines settle it faster, big mesquite ground where it stands, huisache flattened, piles ground where they sat, and the pasture back in business the same week.
Around Yoakum, Shiner, Sweet Home, and Hochheim we handle mesquite and huisache removal, pasture reclamation, fence line and pen clearing, river bottom work along the Lavaca, pile grinding, and hunting ground improvement. Everything grinds in place into mulch, so there are no burn piles, 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 Yoakum quotes done the same day, whether your place is on the Lavaca side, the DeWitt side, or out toward Shiner. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Yoakum, Shiner, Sweet Home, Hochheim, and the Lavaca-DeWitt line country.
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 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.
Yoakum sits surrounded by our documented southern work: the big mesquite clearing at Whispering Oaks in Gonzales leads the carousel below, thirty minutes up 77A, and the Gonzales, Cuero, and Hallettsville pages on this site all carry work from the same loop.
Most recent Lavaca County area 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 heavy the mesquite and huisache are, what stays, and access. This loop is weekly work, 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.
Highly recommend Pierce Land Clearing! Fair price. Showed up on time and work was as promised. 4.5 acres of solid cedar, oak, mesquite etc. taken care of in less than 3 days. I will not shop around on the next project.
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Amazing service and final product. Hunter, Jonathan and Dustin were the operators for both the tree mulcher and the rock mulcher. Their work completely transformed my property. My only regret is that I did not have it done sooner.
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I highly recommend Pierce Land Clearing! They were incredibly responsive and had a crew on site within a few days of our initial contact. They worked for two days clearing the better part of our 19 acre site, and they were very reasonably priced. As a home builder, I have worked with a lot of clearing companies. I will definitely work with them again.
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Outside the Yoakum city limits, Lavaca and DeWitt counties have no permit requirement for clearing brush on your own ranch. The considerations that come up are floodplain along the Lavaca River and its creeks, and the usual county road rules. 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, and the mesquite and huisache country around Yoakum usually calls for the big machines. Send photos or onX pins and you will usually have a number the same day.
Yes. Yoakum sits inside the loop we run through Gonzales, Cuero, and Hallettsville, and our documented big mesquite job at Whispering Oaks in Gonzales is thirty minutes up the road. This is worked country for us.
The leather capital’s twin problems. Mulching knocks both flat and puts the pasture back to work immediately, and because both resprout, we are straight with you: plan follow up spraying to hold the gain. We leave the ground ready for exactly that.
Yes, it is the main job in this corner of the state. Brush pulls carrying capacity out of the pastures year over year, and grinding it returns the sunlight to the grass with the soil protected under the mulch layer.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave your property. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that protects the soil and feeds the grass as it breaks down. Old piles grind where they sit, like the ones photographed on this page. No burning, and generally no haul off.
Constantly. Brush ground off both sides of the wire so you can see the fence, fix the fence, and string new wire without fighting a thicket. Clean lines double as firebreaks in dry years.
Yoakum sits on the Gonzales-Cuero-Hallettsville loop we cross every week. 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 Yoakum quotes done the same day. Flag the live oaks you want to keep and we will grind everything else around them.
38 Acre Commercial SiteBrownsville: cleared for development in six days.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 →
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 Yoakum we cover Shiner, Sweet Home, Hochheim, and the ranch country along the county line. Close by we also serve Hallettsville, Cuero, Gonzales, Schulenburg, and Luling. Somewhere else in the brush country? 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.