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- Land Clearing Services in Temple
- Site Prep for New Homes in Temple and Belton
- Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Temple
- How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Temple?
- Serving Temple, TX and the Surrounding Area: Belton, Troy, Little River-Academy and Salado
- Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Temple
- FAQ
Land Clearing Services in Temple
Our land clearing service in Temple runs five lines: cedar and brush removal, lot clearing to dirt, stump grinding, bush hogging and rough grading. Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing with insured crews and a written price. Residential land clearing means a cedar acre off the lake roads or a 20-acre blackland pasture toward Rogers. Commercial land clearing services take pad sites along I-35, pipeline easements and commercial properties in Temple near the medical district. On residential and commercial properties the mulcher is the same; commercial clearing bills by the acre and commercial sites simply take more days. Property clearing for a grazing lease is land improvement. Every project begins with an 811 locate call. An oak over the kitchen is tree removal for an arborist, not a mulcher; professional clearing of acreage, the cleanup and landscape clearing around the pad belong to us. No concrete, wells, septic or demolition. Tell Teo which line.
Site Prep for New Homes in Temple and Belton
The Census Building Permits Survey imputed 1,021 single-family permits for Temple in 2025 from three reported months, inside a Bell County total of 2,170. A half-acre lot in hackberry or young cedar is one skid steer day, $2,800, mulched in place with the live oaks kept. Full site clearing, slab-ready, grubbing, hauling and rough grading included: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre. The site work rules come first: wet blackland adds a day east of I-35, November to April; rock adds a day on the limestone. Drainage on the blackland side is slow, so the pad goes where March water does not stand. Commercial development along I-35 gets the same site preparation math. Lake lots fall under USACE shoreline rules below the government line, and the county issues floodplain permits before dirt moves in FEMA mapped floodplain. Send the survey and the slab corner stakes to Teo.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Temple
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, so there is no pile when the county judge or commissioners court declares a burn ban and nothing for TCEQ outdoor burning rules to cover. Cedar is the easy target: it does not resprout from the stump, and what we grind stays gone. Mesquite and hackberry on the blackland overgrow a field from the root crown; a bush hog alone just resets them. We remove brush at ground level, then you bush hog each June. Selective clearing keeps the live oak motts and cedar elm shade and takes the rest. AgriLife research puts the payoff in numbers: mature cedar canopy intercepts the first inch of rain, and dropping it under 10 percent on a ranch-scale tract brings seeps back. The skid steer takes stems to 8 inches and covers 1 to 3 acres a day; overgrown land in old cedar goes to the 300-hp head at 4 to 8. We leave the site with a 2 to 4 inch mulch layer, not bare dirt.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Temple?
Land clearing costs in Temple follow canopy percent, and two rules come first depending on site conditions: wet blackland adds a day east of I-35, November to April; rock adds a day on the limestone west of it. Rates:
- Skid steer mulcher for stems to 8 inches: $2,800 a day. Inside 60 miles of the Johnson City yard transport is included; Temple is past that, so transport is a line on the quote.
- 300-hp mulcher: $4,200 a day plus transport, 8 ft head, built for large acreage clearing and anything over 8 inches.
- Cedar under 30 percent canopy: $900 to $1,400 an acre. Medium: $1,800 to $2,600. Areas with dense old-growth cedar or mesquite: $3,000 to $4,000.
- Full clearing to dirt, roots out by excavation, rough grading done: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre depending on stems and haul.
- Stump grinding, $4 per inch of diameter and $175 minimum per stump; we grind a lot with ten or more by the day instead.
- Mowing with the bush hog runs $60 to $90 an acre, $400 minimum. Dozer grubbing $160 an hour. Haul-off $650 to $1,200 a load, $1,100 minimum trip.
Cedar tracts over 10 acres often carry an EQIP brush management plan, practice code 314, which pays 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule rate once approved. When I wrote those plans, cedar west of I-35 was a regular file, and I can read yours. The site visit is on me within 60 miles of a yard; past that I price from your form and confirm when I walk the property. Call (832) 987-3495 to get it in writing.
Serving Temple, TX and the Surrounding Area: Belton, Troy, Little River-Academy and Salado
The Temple area is the north end of our land clearing services across Central Texas out of Johnson City. In Bell County the crew covers Little River-Academy, Salado, Holland, Rogers and the lake roads toward Stillhouse Hollow. Pruitt Range & Brush is a land clearing company serving the Temple metro and taking land clearing projects across the I-35 corridor, with services throughout the Temple-Belton area. Searches for land clearing Temple reach Teo at the Johnson City office; have the acres and the nearest road ready.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Temple
A professional land clearing service hands you the canopy reading, the extra-day rules and the price in writing before the first cedar drops. Call (832) 987-3495, or fill out the form with acres, brush height and the nearest road. Teo picks up at the Johnson City office; the callback comes before the end of the business day. Frequently asked questions from Central Texas owners follow.
