Land Clearing in Granbury, TX: Lot, Brush and Forestry Mulching

Land Clearing Services in Granbury

Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing, lot clearing, brush removal, stump grinding and rough grading for residential and commercial properties in Granbury, TX and the surrounding area. The list runs six items:

• Cedar mulching and selective clearing on ranchettes: cedar out, live oak and post oak kept.
• Lake lots and residential land clearing for a homesite above the Brazos, rough grade and cleanup included.
• Commercial land clearing services and commercial clearing for commercial sites and commercial development along US 377 and SH 144.
• Pasture reclaim, property clearing and professional clearing on 10 to 100 acres of mesquite and cedar.
• Tree removal of stems to 8 inches with the mulcher; larger trunks cut and hauled.
• Full site clearing, site preparation, land improvement and landscape clearing to the rough grade.

Site work stops at the rough grade on every project. Excavation for foundations, wells, septic and house demolition are other trades, and I know people who do them. What our professional land clearing service brings to a cedar tract is the canopy reading. Mature cedar intercepts the first inch of rain, and AgriLife research has measured it; take a ranch-scale tract under 10 percent canopy and the seeps run again. Live oaks have an oak wilt window, February through June, and we mulch cedar around them without cutting a limb. Send me the survey and I will mark the oaks that stay.

Lot Clearing for New Homes in Granbury and Tolar

Granbury, TX issued 234 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, out of 258 for the county, up 83 percent on the year, and Tolar to the west is adding ranchettes on the same limestone. A half-acre lake lot is one day with the skid steer mulcher, $2,800, transport included from Weatherford. A wooded acre of cedar with the oaks kept and a dozen stumps is two days, and property owners get both numbers in writing at the site visit.

Rock sets the schedule here, not rain. Depending on site conditions, limestone and caliche near the surface add a day, because the teeth wear twice as fast and the operator slows to save them, and I say so before the price. Drainage on a lake lot runs straight to the water, so chips stay above the shoreline, and Brazos River Authority rules govern anything at the water's edge. Before we grind a stump we call 811, since a gas pipeline and buried electric follow US 377 under the cedar. Dirt moved inside a FEMA mapped floodplain along the Brazos or its draws needs a county floodplain permit first, and Site prep on my side ends at the rough grade. Send the plat and I will put in writing what it takes to make your property slab-ready at the on-site estimate.

Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Granbury

Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch in one pass, mulched in place with nothing to pile, burn or haul. On cedar that matters more than anywhere, because a cedar pile is a fire waiting on a dry wind; the county judge or commissioners court declares a burn ban most dry summers and TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles the rest of the year. Near Granbury it is the cheapest way to clear land you want back in grass.

Cedar is the only crop in Texas nobody planted and everybody harvests. It does not resprout from the stump, only from seed, so one pass clears it and a bush hog every few years catches seedlings. Mesquite is the opposite: cut it and the root crown sends up a dozen stems, so we take the crown at grade and treat the stem that day. In light cedar under 30 percent canopy the skid steer makes 3 to 5 acres a day. Overgrown land that is areas with dense old-growth cedar at 50 percent canopy runs 1 to 2 acres a day, and large acreage clearing above 15 acres gets the 300-hp mulcher and the 8 ft head. We remove brush to grade and leave the site under two inches of chips that hold the thin topsoil. On our jobs in Hood County a hillside mulched in fall is in grass by the second summer; left alone it will overgrow with cedar in five.

Serving Granbury and Nearby Tolar, Lipan, Cresson and Acton

Hood County is one loop from the Weatherford yard, and the towns around Granbury share one price list:

• Acton, on the east shore of the lake: lake lots, live oak kept, chips above the shoreline.
• Tolar and Lipan, west on US 377: ranchettes and pasture on limestone, cedar and mesquite.
• Cresson, north at US 377 and SH 171: acreage lots on the Parker County line.

Our services in Granbury are the same list and the same prices in each of those towns. A land clearing company serving cedar country keeps spare carbide teeth on the trailer. We run land clearing services across North Texas and the same services throughout the DFW metro from one yard. The land clearing Granbury owners ask for most is cedar thinned to under 10 percent canopy with the oaks kept. Tell Teo your road and your acreage and he will put you on the board.