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Land Clearing Services in Van Alstyne
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing, lot clearing, brush removal, stump grinding and rough grading for residential and commercial properties in Van Alstyne, TX and the surrounding area. Every project here is one of six jobs:
- Residential land clearing for a homesite on a former field: fence row out, rough grade, cleanup.
- Commercial land clearing services and commercial clearing for commercial sites and commercial development along US 75.
- Pasture reclaim and property clearing on 5 to 40 acres: mesquite mulched, post oak kept.
- Selective clearing, professional clearing and landscape clearing around a house already standing.
- Tree removal up to 8-inch stems by mulcher, with larger trunks bucked and hauled by the load.
- Land improvement, full site clearing and site preparation, all stopping at the rough grade.
Site work ends at the rough grade. Excavation for foundations, wells, septic and house demolition are other trades, and I know people who do them. I wrote brush plans for twelve years. The brush never read one. It taught me to price what is standing, not what the aerial shows, so our professional land clearing service walks every fence row before the number goes on paper. Bois d'arc hides a trunk twice the size of its crown, and a row that looks like ten stumps from the road is fifteen in the grass. Send me the survey and I will mark what stays.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Van Alstyne and Anna
Van Alstyne, TX issued 225 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey, and Anna, ten minutes south across the county line, issued 864. A half-acre lot is one day with the skid steer mulcher, $2,800, with transport itemized because the town sits past 60 miles from Weatherford. An acre of bois d'arc and hackberry fence row with a dozen stumps is two days. Both numbers go in writing for property owners at the site visit.
Blackland sets the week. Depending on site conditions, wet ground adds a day from November to April, because the machine makes ruts instead of chips, and I say so before the price. Drainage on these lots means the old cotton terraces, which the rough grade cuts out so water leaves the pad. Before we grind a stump we call 811, since a gas pipeline and buried fiber follow US 75 under the brush. Dirt moved inside a FEMA mapped floodplain along the Sister Grove Creek branches needs a Grayson 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 Van Alstyne
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. Near Van Alstyne that is the cheapest way to clear land that is going back to pasture or waiting on a plat, and it sidesteps the burn ban the county judge or commissioners court declares most dry summers and the TCEQ outdoor burning rules on piles the rest of the year.
Hackberry and bois d'arc are the fence-row job; mesquite is the pasture job. Bush hogging alone fails on mesquite because the root crown sends up a dozen stems the same summer, so the mulcher cuts the crown at grade and we treat the stem that day. In light cover the skid steer makes 3 to 5 acres a day. Overgrown land that is areas with dense bois d'arc and 8-inch hackberry runs 1 to 2 acres a day. 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 clay through spring rain and keep the weed flush down. On our jobs in Grayson County a field left alone will overgrow back to thicket in five summers; a chipped one comes back slower and thinner.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Van Alstyne?
Land clearing costs in the Van Alstyne area run $2,800 for a half-acre lot and $900 to $4,000 an acre to mulch, set by canopy percent. The add-ons come first: wet blackland adds a day in winter, ten or more stumps move the grinding to a day rate, and transport is itemized past 60 miles from a yard.
- Skid steer mulcher: $2,800 a day, transport included within 60 miles of a yard.
- 300-hp mulcher: $4,200 a day plus transport. Its 8 ft head handles anything on the tract.
- Per-acre mulching: $900 to $1,400 light (under 30 percent canopy), $1,800 to $2,600 medium, $3,000 to $4,000 for dense old mesquite.
- Grub, haul and rough grade to bare dirt: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre, thin brush at the low end.
- Stump grinding by diameter: $4 an inch, never less than $175 per stump.
- Bush hogging runs $60 to $90 an acre, $400 minimum; grubbing with the dozer runs $160 an hour, operator included.
- Haul-off runs $650 to $1,200 a load, and the minimum trip charge for any job is $1,100.
The total depends on the size of the tract, the canopy and the ground that week. I read canopy by pacing it off, the way I did when I wrote EQIP plans, and I walk the property with you so we both see the same number. A tract under an NRCS brush management plan, practice 314, gets 50 to 75 percent of the payment-schedule rate back as EQIP cost-share. The on-site estimate is free. Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form.
Serving Van Alstyne and Nearby Anna, Howe, Sherman and Melissa
Van Alstyne sits in the middle of the US 75 corridor the Weatherford crew works as one trip. Howe and Sherman are north, Anna and Melissa are south across the Collin County line, and the soil, the brush and the prices are the same in all five. Our services in Van Alstyne are the same list you will find on every page of this site. A land clearing company serving two counties along one highway books lots two or three at a time to spread the transport.
We run land clearing services across North Texas from one yard west of Fort Worth, with the same services throughout the DFW area and the DFW metro. The land clearing Van Alstyne builders ask for most is a fence row and ten stumps, one day. Tell Teo your town and your acreage and he will put you on the crew's board.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Van Alstyne
- Call (832) 987-3495 or send the form with your acreage and a plat if you have one.
- Teo calls you back before the end of the business day and sets the site visit.
- I read the canopy, count the stumps, check the floodplain map and leave a fixed price before I go.
- The crew arrives insured on the day we agreed, and the land clearing process ends with a rough grade and a clean lot.
The land clearing FAQs on our cost page answer the frequently asked questions on burn bans, ag exemptions and HOA rules, and list our land clearing projects by county.
