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- Land Clearing Services in Bastrop
- Site Prep for New Homes in Bastrop and Smithville
- Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Bastrop
- How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Bastrop?
- Serving Bastrop, TX and the Surrounding Area: Smithville, Elgin, Cedar Creek and Paige
- Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Bastrop
- FAQ
Land Clearing Services in Bastrop
Five lines make up the land clearing service in Bastrop we run: understory and brush removal, stump grinding, lot clearing to dirt, rough grading and bush hogging. Pruitt Range & Brush provides land clearing with insured crews and a written price. Residential land clearing means a pine acre closed in by yaupon, or a 20-acre post oak tract. Commercial land clearing services take pad sites along SH 71, pipeline easements and commercial properties in Bastrop near the river. The same machine works residential and commercial properties; commercial sites take more days. Commercial clearing bills by the acre; property clearing before a sale is land improvement. An 811 locate opens every project. Taking one tree down beside a house is tree removal for an arborist; professional clearing of acreage, with cleanup and landscape clearing around the pad, is what we do. No concrete, no wells, no septic, no demolition. Tell Teo which line.
Site Prep for New Homes in Bastrop and Smithville
Bastrop issued 202 single-family permits in the 2025 Census Building Permits Survey, inside a county total of 1,546 that rose 9 percent; acreage lots outside the city carry no permit, so the count understates the work. A half-acre lot in yaupon under pine is one skid steer day, $2,800, mulched in place with the loblolly kept. A full site clearing to dirt for a slab, grubbing, haul-off and rough grading included, prices at $2,000 to $4,500 an acre. The site work rule here is habitat, not mud: sandy pine tracts fall under the Lost Pines Habitat Conservation Plan for the Houston toad, a USFWS listed species, and I check your tract before any site preparation. Drainage on sand is quick, so the mulch band stays on the slope against erosion. Dirt moving in FEMA mapped floodplain along the Colorado River needs a county floodplain permit. Commercial development along SH 71 runs the same math. Get Teo the survey and where the slab corners sit.
Brush Clearing and Forestry Mulching Near Bastrop
Forestry mulching is a land clearing method that uses specialized equipment to grind trees, brush and vegetation into mulch where they stand, which matters more here than anywhere I work: no pile, no spark, nothing for TCEQ outdoor burning rules to cover when the county judge or commissioners court declares a burn ban. Yaupon under loblolly prices like East Texas understory, $1,200 to $2,000 an acre. We cleared 15 acres of pine understory and yaupon in Smith County in 3 days for $11,400; the Lost Pines version runs the same. Yaupon will overgrow a stand from the root in five years; we remove brush at the ground and you bush hog each June. Selective clearing keeps the loblolly and post oak and takes the yaupon. The skid steer logs 1 to 3 acres a day on stems to 8 inches; overgrown land in old thicket goes to the 300-hp head at 4 to 8. Cedar, which is ashe juniper, shows up only on the limestone to the west. We leave the site mulched 2 to 4 inches deep.
How Much Does Land Clearing Cost in Bastrop?
Land clearing costs in Bastrop run $900 to $4,500 an acre depending on site conditions. The rule first: a tract inside the Lost Pines habitat plan may need a review before we start, stated before the price. Rates:
- The skid steer mulcher, which takes stems to about 8 inches, is $2,800 a day. Transport is included within 60 miles of the Johnson City yard; Bastrop sits just past that ring, so transport is a short line.
- 300-hp mulcher: $4,200 a day plus transport, 8 ft head, built for large acreage clearing on tracts over 10 acres.
- Pine understory and yaupon: $1,200 to $2,000 an acre. Light brush under 30 percent canopy: $900 to $1,400. Areas with dense old-growth thicket 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.
- Stump grinding, $4 per inch of diameter and $175 minimum per stump; we grind a lot with ten or more by the day at the day rate.
- Bush hogging $60 to $90 an acre, $400 minimum. Dozer grubbing $160 an hour. Haul-off runs $650 to $1,200 per load and never under the $1,100 minimum trip.
Pasture with an approved EQIP brush management plan, practice code 314, earns 50 to 75 percent of the NRCS schedule rate; I wrote those plans for 12 years. A free site visit comes with any job inside 60 miles of a yard; beyond that I quote from your form and make it final when I walk the property. For a written figure, call (832) 987-3495.
Serving Bastrop, TX and the Surrounding Area: Smithville, Elgin, Cedar Creek and Paige
The Bastrop area is the sand end of our land clearing services across the greater Austin area, run from Johnson City. In Bastrop County the crew covers Smithville, Elgin, McDade and the pine roads around the state park. Pruitt Range & Brush is a land clearing company serving the Austin metro, taking land clearing projects across Central Texas, with services throughout the Lost Pines. Searches for land clearing Bastrop reach Teo at the Johnson City office; give him the acres and the nearest road.
Request a Free On-Site Estimate in Bastrop
A professional land clearing service gives you the habitat check, the price and a start date in writing before the trailer leaves. Fill out the form with acres, brush and the nearest road, or call (832) 987-3495. At the Johnson City office Teo logs the call, and you hear from us before the end of the business day. Frequently asked questions from Lost Pines owners follow.
