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Land Clearing Services in Boerne, TX
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in Boerne with two mulchers and a dozer, scope written before price. As a land clearing company serving ranch tracts from the start, I size every project by canopy percent and stem diameter.
- Site clearing and site prep for a house pad or barn, full site or one corner
- Brush clearing and selective clearing: cedar out, live oak and the hilltop view kept
- Full clearing to dirt with grubbing, haul-off and rough grading
- Stump grinding at $4 per inch of diameter, $175 minimum per stump
- Tree removal and haul-off, $650 to $1,200 each load
- Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites, fence lines and pipeline rows
Residential land clearing for lots in Boerne, TX and the surrounding area fills most of the calendar. Commercial clearing for a commercial development pays the same day rate. I run a professional land clearing service in Boerne.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Boerne and Fair Oaks Ranch
Boerne issued 351 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, down 37 percent, and that is the whole county count because rural tracts need no permit. A half-acre lot here or in Fair Oaks Ranch is one skid steer day, $2,800, mulched in place, and we leave the site with no cleanup pile. Site preparation for the slab means rough grading. I do not do excavation for footings, concrete, wells, septic or house demolition. I know people who do.
Three rules run the land clearing process on a lot here. The City of Boerne tree ordinance protects heritage trees inside city limits, so I tag the oaks before any site work. West of I-10 the Edwards Aquifer contributing zone and mapped recharge land fall under TCEQ, which wants a Water Pollution Abatement Plan before grading. Drainage on a hillside lot means cutting the pad to shed toward the natural draw, not toward the neighbor. Bring the plat, and I will walk the property with you.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Boerne
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch on the spot, which is why it fits this county. The county judge declares burn bans most dry summers, TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern every pile, and a mulched tract has nothing to burn. The skid steer takes stems to about 8 inches. The 300-hp mulcher with the 8 ft head takes areas with dense old-growth cedar at 6 to 8 acres a day.
Limestone is what a Hill Country ranch grows best, and cedar is what grows on it. Cedar does not resprout from the stump, so mulching kills it; what comes back is seed, and we grind the seedlings every third year. AgriLife research puts a mature canopy's rainfall interception at the first inch of every rain, and my own canopy readings here go in at 50 percent and come out under 5. Golden-cheeked warbler habitat sits in the mature cedar-oak canopy west of Boerne, so that work waits until after the March to July nesting window, and live oaks go unwounded February to June for oak wilt. Property clearing this way is the fastest way to clear overgrown land: remove brush, keep the oaks, make your property read as landscape again.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Boerne?
Land clearing costs in Boerne start at $900 an acre for thin cedar and reach $4,000 an acre for old-growth brakes, set by canopy percent on the site visit. Caliche adds a day on most tracts here, and that goes on the quote before the acre price. The final figure depends on the size of the tract, stem count and site conditions.
- Under 30 percent canopy: $900 to $1,400 an acre
- Medium canopy: $1,800 to $2,600 an acre
- Dense old-growth cedar or mesquite: $3,000 to $4,000 an acre
- Full clearing to dirt, grubbed, hauled or piled, rough graded: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre
- Skid steer mulcher $2,800 a day, transport included inside 60 miles of Johnson City
- Dedicated 300-hp mulcher with the 8 ft head: $4,200 a day plus transport
- Dozer and operator $160 an hour, minimum trip $1,100
Large acreage clearing is quoted by the acre, depending on site access and rock. For scale: 3 acres of hillside in Dripping Springs, selective cedar for the oaks and the view, took 2 skid steer days at $5,600. An approved EQIP plan under practice 314 pays 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule. Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form. Teo calls back before the end of the business day.
Serving Boerne, Fair Oaks Ranch, Comfort, Helotes and Bergheim
From Johnson City our crews run land clearing services across the greater San Antonio area, and Boerne is the gateway town on the I-10 side of the San Antonio metro. Fair Oaks Ranch shares the same cedar ridges and city-lot rules. Comfort, up I-10, is open ranch country where the 300-hp machine earns its transport. Helotes sits 20 minutes south over the Bexar line, and Bergheim lies east on SH 46. Services throughout the Hill Country run on one price sheet. On our jobs in Kendall County the untouched tracts read 45 to 60 percent canopy. Property owners can read the Kendall County page or the Hill Country region page.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Boerne, TX
Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form with your acreage, your road and the best canopy guess you can make from the porch. Teo takes every request at the Johnson City office, and the callback comes before the end of the business day. The estimate is free inside 60 miles, our crews are insured, and land clearing projects get a written scope before the trailer moves. Land improvement starts there.
