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- Underbrush Removal Service Without Taking the Trees
- Clearing, Hauling and Land Management: What Is the Difference on Rural Properties
- Brush Cutting and Mulching Services: Bush Hog, Mulcher, Grubbing, Hand Crew
- Cedar, Huisache and Yaupon Brush Control by Region Across Texas
- Selective Clearing: Keep the Mature Oaks, Lose the Undergrowth
- Pasture Reclamation and Fence Line Clearing for Ranch Acreage
- Fence Line, Trail, Sendero and Firebreak Clearing Work
- Clearing Brush with EQIP Cost-Share Under Practice 314 to Clear Land for Cattle
- Clearing Cost per Acre in TX, Including Forestry Mulching Day Rates and Large Acreage Clearing
- Where We Clear Brush: Every Type of Land Cleared in Hill Country, Central, North and East Texas
- FAQ
Underbrush Removal Service Without Taking the Trees
Underbrush clearing takes everything under about 8 inches and leaves every tree you want. The skid steer head works between trunks on a 6 ft path, so a post oak stand opens up without losing a tree. Yaupon, greenbrier, privet and cedar seedlings become ground cover two inches deep. Brush and underbrush at that size run $900 to $1,400 an acre. Mark the keepers with paint before the crew arrives.
Clearing, Hauling and Land Management: What Is the Difference on Rural Properties
Three terms, three invoices. Clearing means the brush is cut or ground where it stands. Hauling means it leaves your land, by haul truck at $650 to $1,200 a load or as brush piles you burn under TCEQ rules when the county judge has not declared a burn ban. Land management is the follow-up: a mow, a spot spray, a grazing plan. Most of our clearing work needs no removal services, because the mulch stays. Ask for the full clear, with tree removal and site preparation to dirt, only when a pad needs it. Lot clearing for a house is the usual case, and it has its own page.
Brush Cutting and Mulching Services: Bush Hog, Mulcher, Grubbing, Hand Crew
Four tools, and stem size picks one. A bush hog handles stems under 2 inches at $60 to $90 an acre, $400 minimum. Forestry mulchers take 2 to 8 inches on the skid steer and anything on the tract with the 300-hp head. Grubbing with the dozer at $160 an hour pulls root crowns when you need the ground clean. A hand crew with saws goes where a machine cannot, inside a live oak mott. Our mulching equipment does about 90 percent of the acres, and mulching services alone leave most land cleared without a truck.
Cedar, Huisache and Yaupon Brush Control by Region Across Texas
Hill Country cedar is ashe juniper on limestone, priced by canopy percent, and rock adds a day. Mesquite and cedar removal are the two jobs that fill our calendar. North Texas is pasture country, and mesquite removal on blackland and Cross Timbers sand keeps the Weatherford crew busy, with wet ground adding a day from November to April. South of San Antonio, huisache takes over the grazing land and resprouts from the root crown unless the crown is ground. East Texas yaupon under loblolly pine runs $1,200 to $2,000 an acre out of Lindale. Gulf Coast tallow on gumbo clay goes to the Houston sister site. A cow will tell you where the water is before a hydrologist will.
Selective Clearing: Keep the Mature Oaks, Lose the Undergrowth
Selective clearing is the Hill Country standard: cedar to under 10 percent canopy, every live oak and post oak kept. AgriLife research shows a mature canopy intercepts the first inch of rain, so the oaks and the grass get water back when it goes. We mulch around oaks without wounding limbs from February to June, the oak wilt window named by Texas A&M Forest Service. On the 3-acre Dripping Springs hillside we cleared for the oaks and the view, 2 days on the skid steer came to $5,600. Flag anything you are unsure about.
Pasture Reclamation and Fence Line Clearing for Ranch Acreage
An 8-acre Parker County pasture under post oak and brush came back to grazing in 2 days for $8,400, and the owner runs a bush hog over it each June. That is the pattern on our jobs in North Texas: a mulching pass, one growing season of rest, then stock at the animal units the grass carries, about one cow-calf pair per 8 to 12 acres. Fence lines get cleared 10 ft wide on both sides so a truck and a stretcher fit. Any ranch with an ag exemption keeps it through the rest year.
Fence Line, Trail, Sendero and Firebreak Clearing Work
Linear clearing prices by the hour, because the machine spends half its time turning. A mile of fence line clearing at 10 ft wide runs about a day on the skid steer, $2,800. Senderos for a deer lease run 12 to 16 ft wide. A firebreak around a homesite runs 30 ft wide to bare mineral soil, the width Texas A&M Forest Service recommends in juniper country. Trails and senderos leave the mulch down; firebreaks do not. Tell Teo which one you need and the quote comes in hours and feet.
Clearing Brush with EQIP Cost-Share Under Practice 314 to Clear Land for Cattle
EQIP practice code 314, Brush Management, pays 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS payment-schedule rate once your plan is approved. When I wrote those plans, canopy percent, grazing capacity and spring recovery were the three numbers every plan carried. I read your plan, match the treatment acres to our per acre price, and tell you what the schedule leaves you to pay. Rural properties with an approved plan usually see mulching cover itself in two to four years of added grazing. Professional land clearing under a plan is still the cheapest way to make your land carry more cattle.
Clearing Cost per Acre in TX, Including Forestry Mulching Day Rates and Large Acreage Clearing
Light brush under 30 percent canopy runs $900 to $1,400 an acre, medium cover $1,800 to $2,600, and dense brush or old-growth cedar $3,000 to $4,000. Rock adds a day in the Hill Country and wet blackland adds a day up north, and I say so before the price, not after.
- Skid steer day rate $2,800, transport in the price inside 60 miles of any of the three yards.
- 300-hp head, $4,200 a day plus transport, for large acreage clearing.
- Bush hog, $60 to $90 an acre, $400 minimum. Minimum trip for any crew, $1,100.
- Full clear to dirt, $2,000 to $4,500 an acre, clearing debris hauled or piled. Vegetation removal by truck is the line most people drop.
A written quote follows a free estimate within 60 miles of a yard. Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form and Teo will call back before the end of the business day.
Where We Clear Brush: Every Type of Land Cleared in Hill Country, Central, North and East Texas
Johnson City covers the Hill Country and across Central Texas to Waco and Bryan. Weatherford covers the DFW ring. Lindale covers Tyler, Longview and Lufkin. A property owner, land developer or anyone starting a new construction project on commercial land gets the same per acre sheet, and land development or commercial development on 20 to 50 acres gets the 300-hp head. Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing and brush control services, not land services like wells, septic or concrete. We get your property cleared with insured crews, turn overgrown land into usable land, and leave a mulch layer for ground cover. Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form, and Teo's callback lands before the end of the business day.
