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Land Clearing Services in Anna
Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing, lot clearing, brush removal, stump grinding and rough grading for residential and commercial properties in Anna, TX and the surrounding area. The list is short and the prices are on this page:
- Residential land clearing for a homesite, fence row to rough grade, cleanup included.
- Commercial land clearing services for commercial development along US 75 and FM 455.
- Selective clearing, landscape clearing around a standing house, and property clearing on 2 to 20 acres: mesquite out, post oak kept.
- Brush clearing with the mulcher, chips left where they fall.
- Tree removal to 8 inches; bigger trunks are cut and hauled at the load rate.
- Full site clearing and site preparation to the rough grade, with land improvement on pasture that went to brush.
My site prep stops at the rough grade, and so does the site work. Foundation excavation, wells, septic and house demolition are other trades, and I know people who do them. What separates our professional land clearing service from a man with a tractor is the reading before the price. Bois d'arc hides a trunk twice the size its crown suggests, and a lot that looks like ten stumps from the street is usually fifteen. Commercial clearing on commercial sites gets the same professional clearing and the same count. Every project is priced in writing before the trailer leaves Weatherford.
Lot Clearing for New Homes in Anna and Melissa
Anna recorded 864 single-family permits in 2025 by the Census Building Permits Survey and Melissa added 553, so this stretch of US 75 is clearing a fence row a day. A half-acre lot is one day with the skid steer mulcher, $2,800, transport itemized from Weatherford. Property owners with a full acre of hackberry and bois d'arc should plan on two days. On our jobs in Collin County the surprise is always the bois d'arc stump, which is harder than oak and dulls teeth twice as fast.
The clay decides the week. Wet blackland adds a day from November to April, because the machine makes ruts instead of chips, and I tell you that at the site visit before the price. Drainage on these lots is a grading question: the fields were terraced for cotton, and a terrace under the pad sends water toward the slab, so the rough grade takes it out. We call 811 before we grind anything, since a gas pipeline and buried telecom follow US 75 in easements the brush has swallowed. Dirt in the FEMA mapped floodplain along the Throckmorton Creek bottoms needs a permit from Collin County Development Services first. Depending on site conditions, stumps go 8 inches below grade. Send me the plat and the on-site estimate will tell you what it takes to make your property ready for the slab crew.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Anna
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch in a single pass, mulched in place with no pile and no haul. It is the cheapest way to clear land you are not scraping to dirt, and it sidesteps the burn ban the county judge or commissioners court declares most dry summers and the TCEQ outdoor burning rules that cover piles the rest of the year.
Bois d'arc made fence posts for a hundred years. Now it is the reason the lot needs a mulcher. Near Anna the overgrown land is areas with dense bois d'arc, hackberry and mesquite that fence rows seeded into old fields, and the skid steer makes 3 to 5 acres a day in that cover, 1 to 2 acres a day where the trunks run 6 to 8 inches. Large acreage clearing above 15 acres gets the 300-hp mulcher and the 8 ft head. Mesquite is treated the same day it is cut, because the root crown will overgrow a mowed pasture with a dozen new stems by August. We remove brush to grade, leave the site under two inches of chips, and that layer holds the clay and keeps the weed flush down until you seed.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Anna?
Land clearing costs in the Anna area run $2,800 for a half-acre lot and $900 to $4,000 an acre for mulching, set by canopy percent. Add-ons come before the price: wet blackland adds a day in winter, and more than ten stumps changes the per-stump rate to a day rate.
- Skid steer mulcher: $2,800 a day, transport included within 60 miles of a yard, itemized past that.
- 300-hp mulcher with 8 ft head: $4,200 a day plus transport.
- Mulching: $900 to $1,400 an acre under 30 percent canopy, $1,800 to $2,600 medium, $3,000 to $4,000 dense mesquite.
- Clearing to bare dirt, with grubbing, haul-off and a rough grade: $2,000 to $4,500 per acre by density.
- Stump grinding: $4 an inch of diameter, $175 minimum each.
- Bush hog pass: $60 to $90 per acre with a $400 minimum. Dozer and operator for grubbing: $160 an hour.
- Hauling debris off: $650 to $1,200 per load. No job goes out for less than the $1,100 minimum trip.
The final number depends on the size of the lot, the canopy and the ground that week. I read canopy the way I did for twelve years of EQIP brush plans, by eye and by pacing it off, and I walk the property with you so you see the same number I do. A tract still under an NRCS plan for practice 314 gets 50 to 75 percent of the payment-schedule rate back through EQIP cost-share. Call (832) 987-3495 and Teo will set up the free on-site estimate.
Serving Anna and Nearby Melissa, Van Alstyne, Westminster and Princeton
From Anna, TX the crew reaches Melissa in ten minutes, Grayson County in ten more, and Westminster and Princeton on the farm roads east. Same crew, same prices, same list of services in Anna and every town around it. A land clearing company serving this end of Collin County needs to carry a floodplain map and a tree ordinance list, and we carry both. We run land clearing services across Dallas-Fort Worth from the Weatherford yard and the same services throughout the north DFW area and the rest of North Texas, so Anna is a regular stop, not a special trip.
Blackland holds water through March and bakes hard by August. That fact sets the calendar for the whole corridor, Melissa to Van Alstyne: pasture reclaims in late summer, lot work whenever the ground is dry. The land clearing Anna builders want most is a fence row and ten stumps, and in the DFW metro that is one day at $2,800. Give Teo your town and acreage and he will put you on the crew's board.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Anna
- 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 write a fixed price before I leave.
- 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 cover the frequently asked questions about burn bans, HOA rules and ag exemptions, and list our land clearing projects by county.
