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Land Clearing Services in Waco
Five lines make up the land clearing service in Waco we run: bush hogging, brush removal, lot clearing to dirt, stump grinding and rough grading. Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing with insured crews and a written price. Residential land clearing means a mesquite acre off SH 6 or a 30-acre blackland pasture east of the river. Commercial land clearing services take pad sites along I-35, pipeline easements and commercial properties in Waco. Residential and commercial properties see one machine; commercial clearing bills by the acre and commercial sites simply take more days. Property clearing for a grazing lease is land improvement. The 811 locate comes first on every project. Tree removal beside a house is arborist work; acreage is professional clearing work, and cleanup and landscape clearing around the pad come with it. Concrete, water wells, septic systems and house demolition are someone else's trade. Tell Teo which line.
Site Prep for New Homes in Waco and Hewitt
Waco issued 561 single-family permits in the 2025 Census Building Permits Survey, out of 770 for McLennan County; acreage lots outside the city carry no permit, so the count understates the work. A half-acre lot in mesquite and hackberry is one skid steer day, $2,800, mulched in place. Full site clearing to bare dirt, slab-ready after grubbing, haul-off and rough grading, is $2,000 to $4,500 an acre. The site work rules come first: wet blackland adds a day east of the Brazos from November to April, and rock adds a day on the limestone west of the Bosque. Drainage on flat clay is slow, so the pad sits where March water does not stand. Commercial development along I-35 gets the same site preparation math. Lake shoreline below the government line falls under USACE rules, and the county issues floodplain permits in FEMA mapped floodplain. Send Teo the survey and the slab corners.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Waco
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, with no pile to burn when the county judge or commissioners court declares a burn ban; TCEQ outdoor burning rules never apply. Mesquite is the McLennan County problem on both sides of the river. It will overgrow a pasture from a root crown below grade, so a bush hog alone just prunes it; we remove brush at the ground and you bush hog each June. Cedar, which is ashe juniper, is simpler: it does not resprout, and what we grind stays gone. Selective clearing keeps the live oak motts and creek pecans. On our jobs west of the Bosque we read canopy before and after: 50 percent in, under 5 out. The skid steer handles stems to 8 inches at 1 to 3 acres a day; overgrown land in old mesquite goes to the 300-hp head at 4 to 8. When we leave the site the mulch lies 2 to 4 inches deep.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Waco?
Land clearing costs in Waco run $900 to $4,500 an acre depending on site conditions, two rules first: wet blackland adds a day east of the Brazos, November to April; rock adds a day on the limestone. Rates:
- Skid steer mulcher at $2,800 a day, stems to 8 inches. Transport rides free within 60 miles of the Johnson City yard; this route is well past that, so transport is a line on the quote.
- 300-hp mulcher, 8 ft head: $4,200 a day plus transport, for large acreage clearing on tracts over 10 acres.
- Brush under 30 percent canopy: $900 to $1,400 an acre. Medium: $1,800 to $2,600. Areas with dense old-growth mesquite or cedar: $3,000 to $4,000.
- Clearing to dirt: $2,000 to $4,500 an acre, excavation of roots and rough grading included depending on stems and haul.
- Stumps: $4 an inch of diameter, $175 minimum per stump, under stump grinding; ten or more and we grind by the day at the day rate.
- Bush hog: $60 to $90 an acre with a $400 minimum. The dozer grubs at $160 an hour with operator. Loads haul at $650 to $1,200 each; the minimum trip is $1,100.
Pasture with an approved EQIP brush management plan, practice code 314, earns 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule rate. When I wrote those plans, mesquite was the most common file on my desk. I make the site visit free inside 60 miles of a yard; farther out I price from the form and confirm the day I walk the property. Call (832) 987-3495 and the number comes in writing.
Serving Waco, TX and the Surrounding Area: Hewitt, Woodway, China Spring and Robinson
The Waco area is the far north end of our land clearing services across Central Texas, run out of Johnson City. In McLennan County the crew covers Hewitt, Woodway, Robinson, Lorena, McGregor and the river roads toward Lake Waco. Pruitt Range & Brush is a land clearing company serving the Waco metro and taking land clearing projects along I-35, with services throughout the blackland and the limestone on either side of it. Searches for land clearing Waco reach Teo at the Johnson City office; acres and nearest road are all he needs to start.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Waco
A professional land clearing service gives you the extra-day rules, the canopy reading and the price in writing before the trailer leaves. Send the form with your acres, the brush you see and the nearest road, or call (832) 987-3495. Teo takes the call at the Johnson City office and you hear back before the end of the business day. Frequently asked questions from Brazos bottom owners follow.
