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Land Clearing Services in Lindale, TX
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in Lindale with the skid steer for lots and the 300-hp mulcher for timber tracts along I-20. I run a land clearing company serving landowners the way I wrote NRCS plans: every project gets a stem count, a written scope and a machine named before the price.
- Site prep for a house pad, shop or barn in the pines
- Brush clearing with yaupon, privet and sweetgum mulched in place
- Selective clearing that opens the understory and keeps the saw timber
- Full site clearing to dirt with grubbing, rough grading and cleanup
- Stump grinding, $4 per inch of diameter, $175 minimum each stump
- Tree removal, hauled off at $650 to $1,200 per load
- Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites along I-20 and pipeline rows
Residential land clearing is most of the work in Lindale, TX and the surrounding area. Commercial clearing for a commercial development pays the same day rate. A professional land clearing service in Lindale ought to live here. This one does.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Lindale and Tyler
Lindale issued 106 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, a fifth of the Smith County total of 517, which rose 11 percent from 2024. Tracts outside city limits need no building permit, so permits understate the work. A half-acre lot under pine is one skid steer day, $2,800, and we leave the site mulched and clean. Site preparation ends at rough grading. Excavation for the slab, concrete, wells and septic are not mine. I know people who do.
The land clearing process on a Lindale lot has one county check: ground in the FEMA mapped floodplain needs a Smith County floodplain permit before site work moves dirt. Drainage on sandy loam is easy until it is not; the pad is graded away from the slab line and the mulch layer keeps the sand from washing in the first spring storm. Yaupon is the one plant in the Lindale area that treats a chainsaw as encouragement, so the lot gets mulched low, not cut high. Send the plat and I will walk the property with you.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Lindale
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch on the spot, and it is how a pine lot gets cleared without losing the pine. The county judge declares burn bans in dry summers, TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles, and Texas A&M Forest Service wildfire risk ratings for this county run on the same yaupon fuel we grind. The skid steer handles stems to about 8 inches and runs 3 to 5 acres a day in understory. Areas with dense sweetgum go to the 300-hp machine.
Yaupon, sweetgum and privet all resprout from the root, so a mulched understory needs a bush hog pass or a light second mulch in two years to hold. Pine does not resprout, which is why I grind around it. We cleared 15 acres of pine understory and yaupon in Smith County in 3 days for $11,400, and every pine over 8 inches stayed standing. On our jobs around the yard the understory goes in at 60 to 70 percent cover and comes out under 5, with 2 to 4 inches of mulch holding the sand. Property clearing under timber means remove brush, grind the stubs, keep the crop trees, and make your property walkable landscape instead of overgrown land.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Lindale?
Land clearing costs in Lindale run $1,200 to $2,000 an acre for pine understory and yaupon, set by stem count and cover percent on the site visit. Hardwood stumps or a wet spring can each add a day, and both go on the quote before the acre price. The final number depends on the size of the tract, access and site conditions.
- Pine understory and yaupon mulching: $1,200 to $2,000 an acre
- Full clearing to dirt with rough grade: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre by density
- Half-acre lot: one skid steer day, $2,800
- Skid steer mulcher $2,800 a day, no transport charge inside 60 miles of the yard
- 300-hp mulcher $4,200 a day plus transport, 8 ft head
- Dozer and operator at $160 an hour, haul-off $650 to $1,200 per load, $1,100 minimum trip
Large acreage clearing on a timber tract is quoted per acre, depending on site access and how much pine stays. An approved EQIP plan under practice 314 pays 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule rate. Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form. Teo will ring you back before the end of the business day.
Serving Lindale, Tyler, Mineola, Hideaway and Van
Our crews run land clearing services across East Texas from this yard, and Lindale is the north door of the Tyler metro. Tyler is 15 miles south on US 69, and the Tyler area carries the same pine and yaupon with a city tree ordinance inside the limits. Hideaway, on the I-20 side, is lake lots under old pine. Mineola, north in Wood County, and Van, west off I-20, are post oak and pine mixed on sandier ground. Services throughout the county run on one price sheet. Property owners can read the Smith County page or the East Texas region page.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Lindale, TX
Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form with your acreage, your road and whether the pines stay. Teo takes every request at the Johnson City office and calls back before the end of the business day. Our crews are insured, the on-site estimate is free, and land clearing projects get a written scope before the machine leaves the yard, which here is about ten minutes. Land improvement under pine starts with the timber count.
