Land Clearing in San Marcos, TX: Lot, Brush and Forestry Mulching

Land Clearing Services in San Marcos, TX

Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing services in San Marcos, TX and the surrounding area from Johnson City, with every project written as canopy percent, acres and days. Residential land clearing here is a cedar lot on the escarpment opened to the oaks, or a blackland lot east of the highway cleared of mesquite for a slab. Commercial land clearing services cover commercial sites along I-35 and the commercial development pads near the outlet corridor; commercial clearing of a rock pad is a day for the 300-hp machine. I run one land clearing company across three yards, so the same scope sheet travels to every tract.

• Selective clearing and brush removal: cedar mulched in place, oak limbs left alone, mesquite grubbed.
• Tree removal and stump grinding; we grind the stumps flush at $4 an inch.
• Site clearing and site preparation to a rough grade, drainage cut to the natural draw.
• Property clearing of fence lines and professional clearing along the Blanco River under the Hays County floodplain permit.

Site work stops at the rough grade. No concrete, wells, septic or house demolition from me; I know the excavation and grading crews who take it from there. A professional land clearing service tells you its limits before its price. Give Teo the acreage for a day count.

Lot Clearing for New Homes in San Marcos and Kyle

San Marcos issued 718 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, inside 4,153 for Hays County. The land clearing projects that come to me are the acreage lots west of I-35 on the escarpment, where a buyer closes on 60 percent cedar canopy and wants a pad, a drive and the oaks. One day with the skid steer, $2,800, handles a half-acre lot. A 3-acre hillside in Dripping Springs at similar canopy took two days, $5,600, cedar out and oaks and view kept, and that is the number I quote for a comparable lot here. Rock adds a day on anything bigger, and I say so before the price. Depending on site conditions we mulch in place and leave a 3-inch bed on the slope, or grub the pad and haul; the site visit decides. Residential and commercial properties start the same way: Texas 811, the plat for any pipeline or utility easement, and the recharge zone map. The acres-per-day log goes to property owners with the invoice. After a cleanup pass the crew will leave the site with the full site rough graded and site prep done, and we make your property ready for forms.

Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near San Marcos

The land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees and brush into a bed of chips is what I run most days: a mulching head turns standing vegetation into mulch in one pass. On the escarpment it is the way to clear land without dragging anything downhill into the river. Hays County burn bans come from the county judge or commissioners court, and TCEQ outdoor burning rules govern piles the rest of the year; mulch has no pile. Cedar, which is ashe juniper, intercepts the first inch of rain in its canopy, and AgriLife research on mature stands shows how little reaches the ground under it. Under 10 percent canopy the seeps run again; I measured that for twelve years writing EQIP plans. Much of west San Marcos sits on the Edwards Aquifer Recharge Zone, where TCEQ requires a Water Pollution Abatement Plan before grading or clearing on mapped land, so on our jobs here the recharge map comes out before the machine. Oak wilt sets the other calendar: Texas A&M Forest Service says no live oak wounds February to June, so the crew works cedar around the oaks and leaves every oak limb alone in that window. We remove brush in areas with dense regrowth first and thin to the motts. Large acreage clearing of overgrown land runs $1,800 to $2,600 an acre at medium canopy and $3,000 to $4,000 in old growth. East of the highway mesquite will overgrow a pasture from the root crown unless it is grubbed.

Serving San Marcos, TX and Nearby Kyle, Martindale, Wimberley and New Braunfels

Our land clearing service in San Marcos covers the south end of the Austin metro from the Johnson City yard. We are a company serving the whole San Marcos area with land clearing services across the greater Austin area and services throughout Hays County. Near San Marcos that means Kyle lots to the north, Martindale river tracts to the east, Wimberley cedar acreage up RM 12, New Braunfels lots across the Comal County line, and commercial properties in San Marcos along I-35. Hill Country rock gets the 300-hp machine when the cedar is old; the skid steer handles the lots. For a ranch reclaim or other land improvement, I can read your EQIP plan and tell you what practice 314 pays per acre. Landscape clearing for one homesite or property clearing of a 60-acre brake, Teo puts it on the board.