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- Land Clearing Services in Nacogdoches, TX
- Lot Clearing for New Homes in Nacogdoches and Lufkin
- Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Nacogdoches
- How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Nacogdoches?
- Serving Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Garrison, Cushing and Appleby
- Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Nacogdoches, TX
- FAQ
Land Clearing Services in Nacogdoches, TX
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing for residential and commercial properties in Nacogdoches, from a lot off Loop 224 to a 40-acre pasture reclaim. I am a land clearing company serving landowners first, and every project gets a stem count, a written scope and a named machine before the price.
- Site prep for a house pad, shop or barn under pine
- Brush clearing with yaupon, privet and sweetgum mulched in place
- Selective clearing that opens the understory and leaves the saw timber
- Pasture reclaim: volunteer pine mulched out of old hay ground
- Full site clearing to bare dirt with grubbing, rough grading and cleanup
- Stump grinding: $4 an inch across the cut, $175 minimum a stump
- Tree removal with the debris trucked out, $650 to $1,200 a load
- Commercial land clearing services for commercial sites on US 59 and pipeline rows
Residential land clearing and pasture work share the calendar in Nacogdoches, TX and the surrounding area; commercial clearing for a commercial development pays the same day rate. A professional land clearing service in Nacogdoches prices pine seedlings differently from 30-year timber.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Nacogdoches and Lufkin
The Census Building Permits Survey imputed 31 single-family permits for Nacogdoches in 2025 with no months reported, and that is the whole county figure, down 11 percent. Most tracts outside the city limits need no building permit, so permits understate the work. A half-acre lot under pine is one skid steer day, $2,800 plus transport, and we leave the site mulched with nothing to burn. Site preparation ends at rough grading. Excavation for a slab, concrete, wells and septic are not mine. I know people who do.
The land clearing process on a tract here has one county gate: ground in the FEMA mapped floodplain along the Angelina River or Lake Nacogdoches needs a county floodplain permit before site work. Drainage on red sand cuts gullies fast once the cover is gone, so the pad is graded away from the slab and the mulch stays on every slope. A loblolly puts on height faster than a teenager and eats about as much. Bring the plat and I will walk the property with you before the quote.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Nacogdoches
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch in place, and here it is how you take a pasture back from pine seedlings without a burn. The county judge declares burn bans in dry summers, TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles, and the Texas A&M Forest Service posts the county wildfire risk rating off the same understory fuel we grind. The skid steer handles stems to roughly 8 inches at 3 to 5 acres a day in understory. Areas with dense sweetgum or 20-year volunteer pine go to the 300-hp machine with the 8 ft head.
Yaupon, sweetgum and privet resprout from the root, so a mulched understory wants a bush hog or a light second pass in two years. Pine does not resprout, which is why a mulched pasture reclaim holds: volunteer loblolly ground once is loblolly gone. On our jobs around town the understory goes in at 60 to 80 percent cover and comes out under 5, with 2 to 4 inches of mulch on the sand. When I wrote EQIP plans, practice 314 paid on exactly this reclaim, with one season of grazing deferment after. Property clearing here means remove brush, grind the stubs, keep the crop pines, and make your property hay ground or landscape instead of overgrown land.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Nacogdoches?
Land clearing costs in Nacogdoches run $1,200 to $2,000 an acre for pine understory and yaupon, set by stem count and cover percent on the site visit, with transport from Lindale listed separately. Hardwood stumps or 20-year volunteer pine can add a day, and that goes on the quote before the acre price. What you pay depends on the size of the tract and the site conditions I find.
- Understory mulching under pine, yaupon and sweetgum: $1,200 to $2,000 an acre
- Full clearing to dirt, haul or pile, rough grade: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre
- Half-acre lot: one skid steer day, $2,800 plus transport
- Skid steer mulcher $2,800 a day; transport included only within 60 miles of a yard
- 300-hp mulcher, 8 ft head, $4,200 per day and transport
- Grubbing with the dozer: $160 an hour with operator. Haul-off $650 to $1,200 a load. Minimum trip $1,100
Large acreage clearing on a pasture or 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 fill out the form. Teo returns every call before the end of the business day.
Serving Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Garrison, Cushing and Appleby
Our crews run land clearing services across East Texas, and Nacogdoches is the center of the Nacogdoches metro on our southern run. Lufkin, 20 miles south on US 59, shares the pine and has its own page. Garrison, north on US 59, and Appleby, just up the road, are pasture and pine mixed on red sand. Cushing, west on SH 204, is old hay ground going back to loblolly. Services throughout Nacogdoches County run on one price sheet. Property owners can read the Nacogdoches County page or the East Texas region page.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Nacogdoches, TX
Send the form with your acreage, your road and how long the pasture has been idle, or call (832) 987-3495. Teo logs every request at the Johnson City office and calls back before the end of the business day. Our crews are insured, the quote shows transport in writing, and land clearing projects get a written scope before the trailer moves. Land improvement on red sand starts with the mulch layer.
